I recently compared Fighters and Soldiers, as well as the base classes of Starfidner and D&D 5e. In this article, I want to look at the differences between Weapons, Armor, and General Equipment. Since D&D 5e characters increase their damage … Continue reading →
When Covid began, I had a brief exchange with another designer about converting all the things we loved about Starfinder into a 5e based system. Despite being based on a D20 mechanic, there are differences between the two games. The … Continue reading →
Please ignore the extraneous 1s, the tables are easier to work with if they have something in the cells. For many years I wanted to develop Galaxy Pirates as a D20 based RPG, I started out with D20 Modern and … Continue reading →
I’m going through a lot of my early notes on the Galaxy Pirates design and playtest. January 19, 2012 my base materials were D20 Modern, D20 Future and Pathfinder 1e which I felt had improved things over the 3.0 baseline … Continue reading →
I’m going through a lot of my early notes on the Galaxy Pirates design and playtest. December 20, 2011 my base materials were D20 Modern, D20 Future and Pathfinder 1e which I felt had improved things over the 3.0 baseline … Continue reading →
In the Starship Operations manual, they attempted to address one of my issues with starship design. Ships with all guns and ships with all armor/shields are all treated as the same within their budget, but may not reflect their real … Continue reading →
So looking around I found the Randy Ellefson Art of Worldbuilding templates for species and cultures I found some things that you see in every book and yet had not been anywhere in the ideas that change everything. What do … Continue reading →
Part two in the story bible, this time we look at the Kopek intelligent machines. Kopek – level 1 The Kopek are self aware mostly humanoid robots descended from Berserkers a kind of robot sent to wipe out all life … Continue reading →
Owen wrote something about game developers sharing enough direction/information with writers for them to accomplish their assignment without assigning more reading that they would be writing. Owen specifically said preferences and feedback and the more you give them to read … Continue reading →
This week we bring you some flash fiction for all the Slavern fans out there. We wanted folks to get to know the different species of the Galaxy Pirates setting and we’re going to try to do that with some … Continue reading →
