You know, I’ve been trying to think of a way to make the Exploration Challenge work in the context of a dungeon, and I think I was trying to do too much, too quickly with the idea. I forget which[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Catanese Horror
I sat down to my notebook to think on the Exploration/Investigation Challenge, and what I got instead was so much better than anything I could have hoped for — well, technically not, but it wasn’t what I was expecting and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a follow-up to two entries, the first being from earlier today, “Classes With Capabilities,” the second being from yesterday, “Making an Adventurer into an Investigator,” itself a followup of my entry from last Saturday. Since my own game[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, to kind of wrap things up with conditions for the time being, I’m going to write this entry, and then leave them alone for a while. First of all, there are six major conditions to concern the typical adventurer.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I did a quick search of my blog and it turns out, somehow, I’ve never written about or even mentioned Dungeons & Dragons Tiny Adventures. For some time, there was a FaceBook game to help promote Fourth Edition, and I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I did a quick search of the blog and realized I haven’t talked about the Subplot system from Spycraft 2.0, like, ever. I’m not surprised, there are so many influences I draw inspiration from, it should come as no surprise[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So now I’ve broken everything. If you so desire, you can convert your Fourth Edition Dungeons & Dragons character into Arkham Horror and you can convert your Magic: the Gathering creatures into Fourth Edition monsters. I’ve gone and made combat[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I think from my post yesterday, I was trying too hard to accomplish something that was, as I rightly assumed, simple from the beginning. In tangential arguments I’ve had over which ability scores humans should receive bonuses to, I’ve brought[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m now in the process of puzzling out how to convert Dungeons & Dragons ability scores into Arkham Horror skills, and vice versa. One of the things that makes it difficult is the fact that investigators can “refocus” their skills[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had some time to tidy up the dining room (where the gaming happens) this morning, and before I put away the Catan board, I decided to run a quick test using a deck of playing cards. I had my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…