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Early D&D: Baking-In the “Sweet Spot”
The amount of XP a Thief needed to advance to each new level in Basic D&D. (chart borrowed from Jeff’s Gameblog) There is a very interesting thread on the Paizo forums right now, about how to give...
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Opposed skill checks… entirely unnecessary?
I have noticed that a lot of published adventure materials (as well as the Core Rulebook) instruct that opposed rolls be made: Perception vs. Stealth Sense Motive vs. Bluff etc., etc… But aren’t they...
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What I’ve Been Doing
Life is an ebb and flow… just like the frequency of my posts on this blog. At the moment, much of my creative energies are being directed toward the middle-school Pathfinder club I am running. I...
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A Grandmaster’s Guide to Good Guilding #1: The Sales Pitch
This is the first of what likely will be many more posts on my musings while being the adult “Grandmaster” of a successful middle-school Pathfinder RPG club (now 18 students strong!) that the kids and...
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Minimum ability scores in Pathfinder? They’re still there… if you look hard...
A sublimated holdover from “old school play.” There are no actual minimum ability scores in Pathfinder/D&D 3.x. There is nothing akin to First Edition AD&D’s requirement that you have a...
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A Grandmaster’s Guide to Good Guilding #2: Why I prefer Pathfinder RPG for...
Yet another article on my musings while being the adult “Grandmaster” of a successful middle-school Pathfinder RPG club (now 18 students strong!) that the kids and I affectionately call “The Guild.”...
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A Grandmaster’s Guide to Good Guilding #3: Teaching Kids How to GM
Yet another article on my musings while being the adult “Grandmaster” of a successful middle-school Pathfinder RPG club (now 27 students strong!) that the kids and I affectionately call “The Guild.”...
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A Grandmaster’s Guide to Good Guilding #4: It’s Good to Be Grandmaster
Yet another article on my musings while being the adult “Grandmaster” of a successful middle-school Pathfinder RPG club (now 32 students strong!) that the kids and I affectionately call “The Guild.”...
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D&D 5th Edition offering its basic rules for free
Lead designer of D&D 5E, Mike Mearls, has made the announcement at the Wizards website. I think this is great. I am guessing it would be pretty rules-light and deliver on the designers’ promise of...
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A Grandmaster’s Guide to Good Guilding #5: An Overview of the Class
Yet another article on my musings while being the adult “Grandmaster” of a successful middle-school Pathfinder RPG club (now 50 students strong!) that the kids and I affectionately call “The Guild.”...
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