For those of you who have used Roll20 to play online with friends, but don't do more than a quick "/roll d20" and you want to try out 1st edition AD&D, method three presents a challenge. Roll each stat in order. Roll 3d6 for each stat. Six times. Pick the best. Go to the next stat. To make this easy, you can use the following: /roll {3d6,3d6,3d6,3d6,3d6,3d6}kh1 This translates to "roll six sets of 3d6, keep the highest one"…
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So I've alrady set up a flask dev environment and MongoDB server. I've also take the opportunity to read through the character generation rules with a fairly close eye to map out the procedure, sans actual charts and switching logic for die roll results. What follows is but the first of over three pages of flow chart. Oh, and for a bit of classic humor from the Traveller Book:…
Over at Walker's Retreat [https://bradfordcwalker.blogspot.com/2020/02/my-life-as-gamer-amaris-civil-war.html] , he links to a couple videos on the history of the in-universe lore of Battletech, and points out that yes, Battletech doesn't get the love it should. Cue Razorfist: Yeah. I bought my first copy of the base Battletech rules when game shops still had copies of it's earlier iteration, BattleDroids on the shelves - rename courtesy of Lucasarts. The artwork varied from utterly pedestria…
No, this is not a reference to Pelosi tearing up her copy of the STFU speech Trump delivered, or the Dems behavior in general, though the Fist of course has his usual Not-Safe-For-Work take on it. No, this instead is about a set of posts that touch on interrelated themes. The first is a post referencing Brian Niemeier [https://www.brianniemeier.com] - author of the outstanding Souldancer and Nethereal, as well as a new mecha series - over at kairos, discussing the big lie shared by all of the…
First, a couple good links from Pulprev author Ben Cheah's site. He had a short story in Riding the Red Horse, and also authored the excellent No Gods only Daimons, and Hammer of the Witches. I'd previously linked to him in a post on " realism [https://thelastredoubt.com/it-aint-realis/]." On his winding road to the pulp revolution [https://www.benjamincheah.com/2017/06/26/my-winding-road-towards-pulprev/]. Fantasy without fantasy [https://www.benjamincheah.com/2020/01/19/fantasy-without-fanta…