Petals and Thorns

Petals and Thorns is an adventure series written by Chamomile, whose site I link in the Interesting Sites page of my site, in addition to just there. As prep for the Kickstarter launch, and some final playtesting, he ran me and some others through the module to see how it played out. There were someContinue reading “Petals and Thorns”

Unearthed Arcana May 2020

WoTC released their May Unearthed Arcana yesterday. It includes a survey about psionics, and three revisions to subclasses. The meat of this article is the revisited subclasses. We get the Phantom Rogue, Genie Warlock Patron, and Order of the Scribes Wizard. Broadly, I consider the methodology kind of annoying, as it reminds me of theContinue reading “Unearthed Arcana May 2020”

Altered Carbon RPG

Renegade Studios announced an Altered Carbon RPG to be released September 2020. The setting seems ripe for an RPG, and I’d love to see another sci-fi game out in the market. Cyberpunk 2077 coming out in August 2020 surely has nothing to do with the timing. I have physical copies of Renegade’s other RPG, Overlight,Continue reading “Altered Carbon RPG”

Skill Challenges

Way too many words have been spent writing about skill challenges. Ultimately they are something most RPG players want, and something I haven’t seen satisfying versions of in a d20 system. I think the problem comes from a combination of oversimplifying them, and poor preparation. Skill challenges should be as thought out as any monsterContinue reading “Skill Challenges”