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 →
Recently I got asked to write a guest spot on a popular network, you know the one. The post turned out to be about using mysteries in RPGs. I really wanted to pull on the thread of making mysteries different … Continue reading →
I had a colleague ask me today about the OGL, and really OGL questions are normally about Section 15. It’s twenty years old, you hang out long enough in RPG publishing spaces and you see a lot of questions about … Continue reading →
Today I’d like to talk a little bit about firearms in your 5e game, I’m not going to have the firearms don’t belong in fantasy discussion, I want to focus primarily on modern 5e settings where firearms are appropriate. The … 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 →
Recently I posted four weapon damage tables based almost entirely off the ones found on Owen KC Stephens blog, you should go there and look at it, maybe throw some money at his patreon if you enjoy the content and … Continue reading →
So I bought this book on Kindle, it’s based on a print version, each tip covers a page of examples and explanation. I sometimes read books on tabletop game design, board game design and video game design, I wanted to … Continue reading →
