July 2nd, 2009 at 2:57 am » Comments (4)

Here I begin a "chapter by chapter" breakdown of the rule changes in 3.old. First up, ability scores. As I've mentioned before, I think the linear bonus curve of the d20 ...more »

June 30th, 2009 at 11:42 pm » Comments (1)

Blimey, it looks like I covered both the culture of pluses and the universal mechanic in the previous post, so it's time to get onto something more controversial. 3.old aims to ...more »

June 30th, 2009 at 8:56 am » Comments (4)

As I stated in my previous post, one of the main design goals of 3.old was to get rid of the unified mechanic, the d20+modifiers vs. DC mechanic that insidiously ...more »

June 29th, 2009 at 12:46 pm » Comments (11)

Delta has a great post about Games Within Games in which he talks about the advantages of using subsystems instead of a universal mechanic in roleplaying games. I have a ...more »

June 29th, 2009 at 11:20 am » Comments (0)

As I mentioned on Twitter yesterday, Mrs. Droid and I have created a new way to play 3.x D&D. The genesis of this particular project was my desire to play ...more »

February 18th, 2009 at 1:28 pm » Comments (0)

I flexed my fingers, prepared my cut and paste sheet, and did it...I got my room at the Embassy. It's tough, as people were reporting sellouts just six minutes into ...more »

February 17th, 2009 at 8:36 am » Comments (2)

Well, ok, not at DDX, but at my house during DDX. (Is that starting to sound familiar?) I had not played or read this module at all, so I was excited ...more »

February 17th, 2009 at 12:55 am » Comments (3)

Well, not really at DDX, since we played at my house, but it was during DDX nonetheless. We ended up playing this on Friday morning instead of hitting a seminar, ...more »

February 10th, 2009 at 1:05 am » Comments (1)

I'm not going to write a huge post about the show, primarily because I didn't really experience that much of it. I wrote an article for a local paper about ...more »

December 23rd, 2008 at 11:08 am » Comments (0)

After a long and grueling season, one owner has guided his team to victory: Aaron Acevedo's Doomgrinders has won the 1st Annual RPG Bloggers vs. RPG Industry Fantasy Football League! You can ...more »