tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70942663378709071262024-02-06T23:30:51.669-08:00Gamin' Pete's BlogGaming, comics and random nerderyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11143477514815895238noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094266337870907126.post-55929922290349307032014-01-14T20:24:00.000-08:002014-01-14T20:24:27.897-08:00I'm still alive...And that's a good thing. Although I did zilch towards my supposed October project, and nothing since so that's a bad thing.
Anyhoo, that all said I am back to writing gaming stuff for my table and that's the best thing to be doing. With our 3.5 game at the midpoint and my mind looking towards 'what next' I've settled on Gamma World, and maybe doing the Dungeon Delve run of level 1-30 for the funAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11143477514815895238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094266337870907126.post-57496039534218983142013-10-16T22:27:00.004-07:002013-10-16T22:27:59.819-07:00A few quick thoughts on PC races...
PHB Races:
The player races presented in the D&D 4e Player's Handbook are the first ones I want to tackle for the setting, and honestly the easiest to work with given the familiarity everyone has with them. Backwoods elves, Dragonborn privateers and emo Tieflings are all appealing to me right now, and I think they'll be a lot of fun to play with.
Human- The most common folk in the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11143477514815895238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094266337870907126.post-60465031686324699402013-10-16T17:53:00.001-07:002013-10-16T17:53:41.320-07:00Wow, so much for my big spooktober idea eh? On the upside I got my job situation sorted, made headway on diploma stuff and now have a couple of solid campaigns running again.
So to make up for the lack of updates for my imaginary readers, I'm going to be doing some new campaign setting stuff.
I like 4e a lot, and don't much care for what I've seen of Next. So I'm going to do a new setting for Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11143477514815895238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094266337870907126.post-76988107212638673832013-09-26T16:03:00.001-07:002013-09-26T16:03:22.778-07:00Pesky real life...And it's damnable intrusions! Well, all over now and it's time to get back to doing something properly productive.
And with October on the horizon, that something is going to take the form of a personal Halloween build up. I've always enjoyed the horror genre, whether it be in games, movies or the printed page and I'm going to make October 2013 my own little celebration of the creepy and macabreAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11143477514815895238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094266337870907126.post-58123882954350382602013-09-17T05:32:00.002-07:002013-09-17T05:32:30.011-07:00It's not yet November but...I still went ahead and signed up to national novel writing month over at nanowrimo. I'm one of those guys who's always meant to write that book or this short story, but aside from a few bits and pieces I always let myself get distracted.
And by distracted I mean never made the effort because I was scared of a) failing and b) people laughing at me.
Well now I'm old enough, ugly enough and more Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11143477514815895238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094266337870907126.post-85520121142132687672013-09-15T02:19:00.001-07:002013-09-15T02:19:42.510-07:00Ye Olde World had the best campaign mapsDon't you agree? It's not hard to see at least a dozen ideas at first glance, in what might be the ultimate sandbox.
One of these days I'll print off a big copy of this bad boy and drop it on the table. Then let a party of 1st level delvers loose to go poke things and see what happens.
So, who's up for a game? Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11143477514815895238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094266337870907126.post-80401856225521033132013-09-13T23:35:00.002-07:002013-09-13T23:35:07.662-07:00Shameless self promotion time. Because I'm really enjoying recounting the antics of my boys in our new D&D campaign, as they tromp round the Dales and beat up dungeon dwellers in a nice meeting of old school mentality with 3.5 rules.
So I'm just gonna link to the actual play thread for the campaign over on RPGnet for any readers out there who might have an interest.
Here we go, enjoy gentle reader.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11143477514815895238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094266337870907126.post-86863493605928441522013-09-12T23:41:00.001-07:002013-09-12T23:41:49.980-07:00Who you gonna call?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11143477514815895238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094266337870907126.post-73244799718399936912013-09-09T20:59:00.004-07:002013-09-09T20:59:42.243-07:00A little bit of fiction
The Woods Are Dark
You know of what I speak child, the shadows where the nightmares live. The places your mother tells you to avoid, where foolish children wander and never again return from.
She will never tell you why the men of our village light burning torches on the forest's edge when night falls, or why even the brave hunters count their footsteps so carefully when their prey vanishes Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11143477514815895238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094266337870907126.post-74380540182861961042013-09-09T20:58:00.002-07:002013-09-09T21:01:01.108-07:00A thought and a trio of linksNow that I'm up and running I figure this is as good a place as any to pull together some old stuff from assorted posts. Maybe I'll even get back to that wacky idea of reading and reviewing each of the 200+ Forgotten Realms novels out there...
Maybe not.
Anyway, while I start gathering up bits and pieces here's a few amusing links to things I like.
A very handy compilation of assorted Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11143477514815895238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094266337870907126.post-19625308356173378142013-09-06T20:25:00.000-07:002013-09-06T20:25:39.792-07:00So James Raggi mentioned what his hobby looks like, and that sounds like a good thing to share.
Mine looks kinda like this.
I keep this on the right just to remind me of why I play these crazy games and that no matter what I come up with, there's no such thing as 'too far'.
Because dragons are cool. And they live in dungeons. Into which adventurers wander. Simples.
And Christopher Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11143477514815895238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094266337870907126.post-5114873391329400432013-09-06T19:56:00.000-07:002013-09-06T19:56:05.565-07:00Dungeons are fun.So I suppose the point of having a blog is to actually update it with posts from time to time. Most of my time is consumed with work, looking for a better place of work and dungeon mapping right now.
We kicked off a Forgotten Realms campaign just last week, using the 3.5 D&D rules since a) I like them, and b) my kid brother is off to the army soon and his favourite game is the ideal choice Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11143477514815895238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094266337870907126.post-5135947485278940952013-08-16T17:38:00.002-07:002013-08-16T17:38:43.665-07:00Poor orphan dice.
At Casa de Pete we have a big ammo box loaded with dice. Poor lonely orphan dice that belong to lost gamers, lapsed or otherwise. Some of the wee orphans were found, some donated and many just seemed to appear.
Dice attract dice. Or they breed. Who can say?
So when a newbie turns up to game, or we lure a random passerby into trying our odd elfgames out they always have some funny shaped diceAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11143477514815895238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7094266337870907126.post-69445152778461817112013-08-16T17:28:00.002-07:002013-08-16T17:28:37.606-07:00HalloSo yeah, I went and got a blog. Because it seems like a more sensible place to deposit my random musings than facebook or the various message boards out there in the webs.
Mostly I game, and talk about gaming. Of the tabletop RPG variety, so there'll be my thinkings about trolls and elves, or dungeons and vampires. It should be fun, and it might even help me organise the cluttered morass that I Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11143477514815895238noreply@blogger.com0