Chris P. Sins

Admittedly, I don't know the whole story. Just a first emotional reaction on my part.

My first impression was that this is a huge troll of 47. Does he receive it? No. Also, the person who did is from Venezuela. You know, the country whose civilian boats the US administration has been destroying … on a war crimes level.

Cosmic Corsairs RPG Fly starships. Wield cosmic powers. Fight a brutal regime.

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Kim Mohan | SFFHOF Inductee

Kim Mohan is one of the greats in the RPG industry and a great person. He taught me so much. Kim deserves to be in the Museum of Pop Culture and Seattle's Science Fiction Hall of Fame. I'm grateful to know that others can learn more about him and his amazing career.

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Multiattack. The werewolf makes two attacks, using Scratch or Longbow in any combination. It can replace one attack with a Bite attack. Bite (Wolf or Hybrid Form Only). Melee Attack Roll: +5, reach 5 ft. Hit: 12 (2d8 + 3) Piercing damage. If the target is a Humanoid, it is subjected to the following effect. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 12. Failure: The target is cursed. If the cursed target drops to 0 Hit Points, it instead becomes a Werewolf under the DM’s control and has 10 Hit Points. Success: The target is immune to this werewolf’s curse for 24 hours. Scratch. Melee Attack Roll: +5, reach 5 ft. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) Slashing damage. Longbow (Humanoid or Hybrid Form Only). Ranged Attack Roll: +4, range 150/600 ft. Hit: 11 (2d8 + 2) Piercing damage.

The 2024 D&D werewolf is a good example of simple form change, with abilities categorized by form in one block.

In an RPG, if you were to run a monster that has two or more stages or forms, each stage representing a change in capabilities and playstyle, would you want one stat block with abilities labeled by stage or one for each stage? Does it depend on complexity?

When I run 5e legendary monsters a few things feel off. Legendary Resistance feels gamist rather than narrative. Damaging Legendary Actions skew the damage math so each hit feels too light. Progress is masked. The 4e versions had flaws, too, especially early-form design, but those can be mitigated.

A typical 4e encounter included four or five monsters of the player characters’ level. Elites functioned as two monsters and solos functioned as five. For those two types, the damage output, function, and survivability felt better in play than legendary monsters do. Subjective, yes, but still. :D

I'm working on some badass monsters, and 4e monster design was better for them, especially as that edition grew in monster-design wisdom. Elites and solos from 4e felt better in play then than 5e legendaries do now. The good news is that some of the 4e virtues can be replicated in 5e.

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Make the pact. Become a Hunter.

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If Disney didn't do that, they should have. Leverage the power of the top-down feed. Nevertheless, I hope it was the threat of grassroots advertising issues. Maybe it was both.

A little voice inside my head said WTF.

Adventure Design and World Building for Kids Saturday, October 18, 2pm GameHole Con

Coming up at GameHole Con!

Looking forward to this panel, and hope you'll join us for it!

Shadow of the Weird Wizard Bundle Adventurer! This all-new Shadow of the Weird Wizard Bundle presents Shadow of the Weird Wizard, the tabletop fantasy roleplaying game from Robert J. Schwalb of Schwalb Entertainment based on his bests...

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Codex Delictorum by Kalum from The Rolistes New Mysteries and More for Rosewood Abbey

CODEX DELICTORUM (new mysteries and more for Rosewood Abbey) UPDATE!

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The above Itch page now includes a new structure, principles, and collaboration sheet to investigate CfB monastic mysteries via Play-by-Post.

These were drafted the PbP-enthusiast, Damoslim.

Your reminder that legislation to curb the rights of trans people to use restrooms or do anything else means everyone's behaviour, clothing etc will be opened up to intrusive and unwanted scrutiny and potential challenge in our daily lives. This is not a 'them' issue. Trans rights are human rights.

Image showing location of LinkedIn settings from data privacy option, to How LinkedIn uses your data category, to data for generative AI improvement, and finally the off toggle.

LinkedIn is going to use your data for generative "AI" training. To opt out go to settings > data privacy > How LinkedIn uses your data > data for generative AI improvement > off.

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see I mean, it seems pretty obvious when you put it like that, right? But how many families, when an introvert sibling or child makes an effort to socialize, snarkily say, "So, you've decided to join us"? Or when someone does something they've had trouble doing, say, "Why can't you do that all the time?" (Happened to me, too often.) Or any sentence containing the word "finally". If someone makes a step, a small step, in a direction you want to encourage, encourage it. Don't complain about how it's not enough. Don't bring up previous stuff. Encourage it. Because I swear to fucking god there is nothing more soul-killing, more motivation-crushing, than struggling to succeed and finding out that success and failure are both punished.

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.

I liked The Empty Man, but I really liked the weird bone shrine in it.

Image of the hardback version of Making Enemies by Keith Ammann.

Received this lovely hardback Making Enemies in today from the author, Keith Ammann @themonstersknow.com. Looking forward to digging into it.

OK, you can't watch Kimmel tonight, but this is every bit as funny.

I encourage you to cancel your Disney+ subscription and for reason, select Other and put Jimmy Kimmel in the description. Let them know government curtailing of free speech is not okay where it might just make them notice.

Do you like The X-Files? Twin Peaks? Paranormal drama? Mystery spookiness?

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One issue generally overlooked in the whole screenwriter vs gamewriter, discussion is time.

Beyond anything to do with training, ability, style etc is the amount of time screenwriters get to invest in a script.

Whilst there are time pressures on any writer, the vast amounts of script that-
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Asher's Ridge A game of paranormal television for 1-4 players.

This looks really neat. I pledged.

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