What do you find important in a campaign setting? NOTE: A repost of yesterday’s Monday Musings.
Entries from June 30th, 2009
[Tuesday Twitters] What Do You Want in a Campaign Setting?
June 30th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Feature, RPG Bloggers Network
[Link] A Tape Has Two Sides?
June 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Links
The BBC recently published a story that has 13 year old Scott Campbell walking around with a Walkman – the cassette-playing kind.
From a practical point of view, the Walkman is rather cumbersome, and it is certainly not pocket-sized, unless you have large pockets. It comes with a handy belt clip screwed on to the back, [...]
[Link] How-To: Handle a Superhero Child
June 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Links
This incredible Father’s Day article at The Boston Globe focuses on one specific area of advice that most parents can’t find easy access to: how to handle with a super-powered kid.
Please don’t be alarmed. It’s not easy to hear the truth, that your child is indeed different. Some parents do not even hear the doctor’s [...]
Tags:super powers
[Picture] Activation of the Halo Seems Less Scary with This Desktop
June 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Pictures and Video
Sure, in-game screen shots make for a pretty desktop, but they’re hardly functional. At least, not until you tweak it a bit.
This Halo desktop is customized with (among other features):
Grenade (application) launchers
(Computer) Power drainers
(Weather) radar
Rifle (battery) meter
For a full list of what this desktop has, click through to the Lifehacker post.
Icon via Iconspedia.com
[Gaming in the Universe of....] Twitter
June 24th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Feature, RPG Bloggers Network
Okay, something you may have noticed from my last few posts – I reference Twitter. A lot. I get a lot of great ideas from Twitter, and I have a lot of interesting conversations there. So, I’ve decided to pay tribute to Twitter in the best way I can: creating a 4th Edition magic item [...]
[Deals] It's a Woot-Off!
June 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Deals
Hurry in to your favorite browser and make your way to the Woot! aisle! It’s time for a Woot-Off where, for an undefined amount of time, deals switch out as soon as the previous one ends (as opposed to normally, when they switch at every day). There’s no guarentee that anything is going to be [...]
[Dungeons and Dragons, 4th Edition] How to Make Powers Matter Outside of Combat
June 23rd, 2009 · 4 Comments · RPG Bloggers Network, Tips
Last Friday on Twitter, a few people were discussing that the powers in 4e are the reason that players say they can’t roleplay. I don’t think this is true, but I did figure out a way to use the powers in an interesting way outside of combat.
Flavor text.
Stat blocks are made up of two primary [...]
Tags:dnd-4e
[Five Bullywugs Named Steve] Roundup
June 20th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Feature, RPG Bloggers Network
Learn how Twitter helped make the Five Bullywugs Named Steve, and see all Five of them in one place.
[Picture] Soon, The Dark In Me is All That Will Remain
June 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Pictures and Video
Here’s a quick concept for a t-shirt that I threw together a couple days ago.
I don’t have nearly a good enough picture of the good Doctor, so I had to use the one on the cover and edit out the background, which didn’t work very well. Ideally, I would like a picture of him creeping [...]
Tags:dr horrible·tshirt design
