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Call of Cthulhu by Chaosium is one of the classic skill driven RPG systems out there, using a percentile system that can be found in the family of games that includes Stormbringer, Ringworld, Runequest, and others spawned from the same core Basic RPG (link to Basic RPG). The most recent 7th Edition of the game… Read more
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Something Squid-like This Way Comes … As a teenager, I wasn’t reading many of the same books as my peers. For example, while many of them were reading Stephen King (The Shining, Cujo) or Flowers in the Attic (horror of a different kind), I was mostly a science fiction and fantasy fan (Alan Dean Foster’s… Read more
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To ‘reskin’ a creature or an item is to give it a new appearance in such a way that it changes how it interacts with players more in a stylistic way rather than in a mechanical one. One of the great creative joys of running a game of Dungeons & Dragons is magic items. I… Read more
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The Fighter, Ranger, and Paladin classes have fighting styles available early on, but they do not scale up with levels. At our table we modified a few of these from the Player’s Handbook to make them closer linked to that increase of proficiency but still avoid breaching the ‘bounded accuracy’ of 5E. If the bonus… Read more
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I have long been a fan of Feats and in Dungeons & Dragons 5E they help create more interesting characters. It is no surprise that we have a house rule that PCs start with a Feat and many encountered creatures have a Feat as well. These were originally written years ago with inspiration taken from… Read more
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As I continue my Gamer Goals for 2022. I got to play a couple of new board games and a few that I haven’t played for a while. Dragonland (2002) – new to my table Race around the board and collect sets of gemstones and dragon eggs, use special tokens to ride a dragon, collect… Read more
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