TPK encounters are designed to catch players wrong-footed and expose them to the thrill of encounters that could actually threaten them. Many of these encounters involve goblins. For story purposes, I have crafted a backstory to tie these encounters together. You could run them back to back as the central …
I’m guessing I’ve probably lost about half of you with the headline but I’ve been giving some thought to a different way to do online games as a storytelling medium. Before you look at me and say something that offensive and probably mostly true, hear me out. You see I’m …
TPK is a collection of self-varying, auto-adjusting, curve-ball encounters for evil GMs to throw at their players. This page was generated using a seed of . Examples of saves An easy STR roll would be DC based on a STR Bonus of A moderate Will roll DC A hard Fort …
There is a maxim that when you do a whole load of research about amusing military stuff, you should blog it for other people to read. This is, of course, something I just made up. That doesn’t make it a bad idea though. I’ve been watching a lot of war …
When designing games, we sometimes use the inverse square law. Warning: here be nerd-bate. The inverse square law is a lot easier to understand than the last round of maths geekery I posted. When geeky writers have a little too much time on their hands, they read geeky blogs and …
Normally I like to only write about writing and story related issues here but today I am going to tell you why I think Brexit is a mistake. These three simple reasons why Brexit is a mistake are why I have been so distracted from my chosen life’s work of writing the …
Maybe I have watched one too many Dave Gorman shows on youtube but I have started to wonder if it would be a good idea to do something a bit crazy. Right now it is cold outside and I am snug inside. I have my central heating and over-engineer mattress. …
I believe happiness is no secret. I truly believe that unhappiness – a lack of joy – is rooted in unrealistic expectations born of lies we have accepted as truth. Mostly the lie is that happiness – that is a life of joy – is something to be found or given. It …
I was alone when I was awoken from a deep and restful sleep by the sound of my name being called. The voice was not familiar and it said only my name. The speaker, for that was what I assumed, said my name with a slight rise in intonation but not …
What do I want? Answering that question is the key to targetting your life on what you want out of it. We call that success. One of the questions we raised on Author Buzz recently was “who is going to miss you when you are gone?“. Good question. My answer, …
