2019-02-16 Episode 19

{.right} Halberds and Helmets Podcast No skills. Fewer classes. Quick and random character generation. Smaller bonuses, little damage, few hit points. Rare healing. Simple combat. Treasure is XP. No magic shops. Random encounters.

Halberds and Helmets Podcast

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2007-06-26 Craft Skill: getting angry about crafting skill use in an adventure for D&D 3.5
2007-10-13 Skills: being unhappy about cross-class skills in D&D 3.5
2011-05-14 Role Play, not Wish Fulfilment: “players don’t have the right to play any class and personality they like—they have the privilege to play the classes and personalities that most suit their player abilities: tactics, strategy, imagination, courage, oratory, creativity, all of these are unlimited by the constraints of the physical world, unlike strength, dexterity and constitution, unlike most of our fighting abilities.”
2012-02-09 Social Skills Revisited: we act stuff out to be entertaining, but non-player characters also have “needs, traits, and desires”
On Ignorance of Skill Based Play: “When you encounter an NPC you need to convince, you don’t just judge the players on arbitrary and capricious standards. You present the NPC as a puzzle like any other.”
2014-10-29 Skills: “do you think your character would know this?”
Random Character Generator: reload and print, do this 20× and you are set
2009-05-24 Old School Affordances: the importance of understanding affordance
2009-05-25 B ⁄ X Affordances: applying this idea to B/X D&D → the basis of these principles!
Halberds and Helmets: my homebrew rule set with links to the PDF files

2007-06-26 Craft Skill

2007-10-13 Skills

2011-05-14 Role Play, not Wish Fulfilment

2012-02-09 Social Skills Revisited

On Ignorance of Skill Based Play

2014-10-29 Skills

Random Character Generator

2009-05-24 Old School Affordances

2009-05-25 B ⁄ X Affordances

Halberds and Helmets

Eleven Principles

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