The article asks a number of authors how D&D (and other Tabletop games) influence their work, and examines whether or not gamebooks can be read for fun?
Saturday, June 20, 2015
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Personal Ripsaw Tank
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
You've Been Spending Your Gold Coins All Wrong
"These roman coins are part of a 159 coin hoard discovered near St. Albans, Hertfordshire. Gold solidi were enormously valuable coins. By law they could not be spent on retail market goods, but only for large purchases and deals like property sales and entire ship’s of goods. Whoever owned these coins was very wealthy, a merchant or a banker."
So if 159 coins represented a small fortune (and don't I mean like afford a nice condo kinda fortune, I mean like owning the whole building kind of fortune), what happens when the Heros come up from the Dungeons of Depravity with two thousand of the suckers?
Economics is something most table top gamers don't really pay much attention too. Sure, they are supposedly carrying around thousands of pounds of gold with little to no encumbrance penalties, but very little thought is given to what would happen when all that gold hits the economy. A ridiculous boom economy followed by runaway inflation and then a catastrophic economic bust. Who's mining and minting all this gold? Where did it come from?
I'm not saying that GM's should be laying out detailed economic charts for their game world, but the players suddenly finding their hard won treasure is now near worthless after a few weeks in town while everyone is suddenly wearing a solid-gold shoes, might make for an interesting development. Not to mention the sort of attention that kind of haul would attract from bandits, mercenary armies, tax collecting royals, would-be-mad emperors ....
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Tentetsutou, the Sword of Heaven
Tentetsutou, translated as 'The Sword of Heaven' is a katana forged from a meteorite.
House Rule: A magical sword does not have to be named. But any sword that urns its name, becomes magical.
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Kill Your Friends, Steal Their Bricks
That someone chose to make this makes my world a little bit happier.
Munchkin Quest LEGO by Guy H. and Crazy Bricks
Munchkin Quest LEGO by Guy H. and Crazy Bricks
Friday, May 8, 2015
Monday, May 4, 2015
The Girls of Talislanta
Different artists have drawn pin-ups of the many (and varied) races of Talislanta. It started as a joke, but it has become something of an institution to Tal fans. Many of the drawing are NSFW.
Batrean Concubine, not sure who the artist is.
Friday, May 1, 2015
Mazes and Minotaurs Website
Mazes and Minotaurs website containing both the original 1972 and 1987 rulesets.
Not to be confused with the 1982 tv movie, Mazes and Monsters, but I'd play a crossover game in a heartbeat. 
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