The end of the year is always a good opportunity to look over the year’s posts—RPG posts, to be exact.
I worked on my Halberds & Helmets Character Generator and added random faces from books in the public domain. It was a few hours of boring work but it seemed easier than writing a face generating web service. I’m still planning to do that, though!
Halberds & Helmets Character Generator
I also worked on my German house rule document which I called—you guessed it—Hellebarden & Helme. All this stuff is also available from GitHub.
This was the year where my classic, open ended campaign (the one I started in 2010) started drifting into *diceless* territory. The reaction roll ended up growing in importance as players gained levels. I wrote about it in my No Dice post. Later I read Peter Fröhlich’s blog post Riffing on 2d6: Reaction Rolls and started to doubt my decision to add more elements to my reaction roll table. And to be honest my referee screen still has the old table on it.
Riffing on 2d6: Reaction Rolls
Since Apocalypse World introduced me to a particular structure of writing 2d6 tables, I’ve proposed two house rules using it: Magic Research and Chase Rule.
I really liked this advice for first time referees by Greg MacKenzie.
advice for first time referees
I stopped running my Pendragon campaign.
stopped running my Pendragon campaign
My favorite role-playing game that isn’t classic D&D continues to be Lady Blackbird. Such sweetness, whenever I run it a local convention.
This year I stopped running the One Page Dungeon Contest and felt much better than in 2013!
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And with that, here’s to the blogs, conversations with strangers on the Internet, and freedom, justice and peace for us all.
freedom, justice and peace for us all
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