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Archive for June, 2010

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Heroscape Tor-Kul-Na converted to Star Wars Saga Edition

Tor-Kul-Na CL 18 Medium Marro Hive Leadernoble 9 / soldier 8 / officer 6 Destiny 1; Hero 15Init +17; Senses Perception +16Defenses Ref 34 (flat-footed 31), Fort 39, Will 33hp 208; DR 2; Threshold 39Languages Marro, Basic Speed 6 squares Melee unarmed +20 (1d10+12) orMelee unarmed +18 (2d10+12) with Rapid Strike orMelee voulge + 22 [...]

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Making a Good Bad Guy

Making a Good Bad Guy

Take your average hero.  I don’t care if it’s Neo or Luke Skywalker, Harry Potter or Batman.  Now set him down in a peaceful, quiet town and watch what happens. What happens? Neo continues to work at his day job, while doing small-time hacking on the side. Luke works on the farm and on weekends [...]

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Getting rid of stats in 4E

One of the more confusing things for some of my students when learning 4th Edition is the effect that their base stats have on their rolls. It is fully ingrained in most experienced players, but when you’re starting out, it does seem slightly counterintuitive that a 7 INT means a -2, while a 20 STR [...]

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RIP Rue McClanahan

Rue McClanahan, the Emmy-winning actress who brought the sexually liberated Southern belle Blanche Devereaux to life on the hit TV series “The Golden Girls,” has died. She was 76. Her manager Barbara Lawrence said McClanahan died Thursday at 1 a.m. of a stroke. She had undergone treatment for breast cancer in 1997 and later lectured [...]

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Official: Rosie Huntington-Whitely has replaced Megan Fox for Transformers 3

23-year old British supermodel (and girlfriend of Jason Statham) Rosie Huntington-Whitely has joined the cast of Transformers 3, “replacing” Megan Fox as the official eye candy of the film: Here’s what the Los Angeles Times had to say: The Autobots and Decepticons are back in town. Director and executive producer Michael Bay has begun filming [...]

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Shepherd’s Pie: Fourth Helping

Everybody knows what a link dump is.  Well, almost everybody.  I assure you it’s not a bunch of turds all hooked together and floating in the porcelain pond.  Though I did have Turd Pudding a few weeks ago.  One blog I read calls its weekly link dump post “Applesauce.”  Chuck Wendig’s “Painting With Shotguns” paints [...]

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On playing barbarians

The key is to try to use barbarian as a springboard, but not as sole purpose of the character. A lot of people want to play this class just for the sake of pretending to be a barbarian, which tends to make for some really dull characters. In our Pathfinder campaign, we’ve settled on some [...]

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The Tearing of the Veil: Another Option for Gamemasters

About two weeks ago, I wrote a post outlining one possible explanation for the bizarre conditions that exist in the world of the game I am writing.  I am still working on the game, poring through mechanics and solidifying the pre-game story of the world.  I am also still working on a title and am [...]

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