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Unfortunately, I have no way to have a conversation on Twitter. I miss doing that a lot. I can, though feedly.com, share links to Twitter. This makes my twitter account a long list of links with little to actually say.
At some point soon, I’m going to start doing a round-up of all the links I send to Twitter.After all, since I’ve become a curator of sorts, I can at least summarize.
For now, though, I’ve been keeping the following links up because I don’t want to lose them.
A Word List of Shapes
Over at the phontistery, you can find all kinds of wonderful word lists. This list of shape words is my favorite. Many of the names just ooze Old School Odd.
Open Game Content from Mutants & Masterminds
The D20 Hero SRD has the goal of providing all the OGC from the third edition of M&M. Of interest to me is the Measurements Table. I keep thinking I can use it in Andras somehow…
Secret Maps of the 1930s
I found the link from another blog, but I’ve had a heck of a time finding out who pointed me here. My apologies. Anyway, this link features a tale of a man that claims to have mapped a secret underground world. Map is included in the article. Woot!
Irregular Magazine
Who knew? Not me, that’s for sure. What a great magazine – and it is free!
Project Gutenburg Is Great
Noisms publishes a list of great source material for gaming from Project Gutenburg. I have greatly enjoyed reading the books by Baron Dunsany.
Speaking of great source material, I have begun reading Almuric. The English Major in me reels at the thought. It’s like mental bubblegum. The twelve year old in me, though, just relishes the story. For the record, this is a poignard.
Rethinking the Core Races
Sword and Board provides a 5e take on core races. Very cool. Speaking of cool core races, here is the reskinned Halfling as rat-people. Very, very cool.
The Fantasy Trip Resources and Clones
This kind of speaks for itself.
I have been feeling awful for quite a while. I’m hoping to be back to writing soon. I have revised The Needle post so many times, I fear I won’t just push the Publish button and move on.
Breaking the Second Rule of Blogging
Second rule of blogging: Don’t apologize for a lack of posting.
I am trying to finish the posts about The Tunnel. It is a fantastic location that relies on Spelljammer mechanics. Essentially, it is Spelljammer’s version of a wormhole, but the two endpoints exist on two different planets. Despite the Spelljammer mechanics, the universe is based more on Pythagoras instead of Ptolemy. That means that the Sun is “The Central Fire” and that all planets have a twin that revolves at exactly the same velocity, but on the other side of the Central Fire.
However, there may be delays in posting. There is some extended illness in the family for the missus and I. We don’t have the same condition, but I won’t speak to her illness. For me, it is a combination of arthritis (knee) and extended flu-like symptoms (sans fever). The result feels very much like walking pneumonia wherein I have some energy at the start of the day, but I am completely exhausted by 7pm.
I barely posted a walk-through of grappling rules I posted on G+ but I don’t have the energy to follow-through beyond that. I’m not sure I’ll be able to teach my class tomorrow, either. Ugh.
So I hope things will change soon. Nothing definitive from the doctor yet, but I promise I won’t fill the blog with constant medical updates. Just wanted to say that I’m still here and I hope to finish.
Last side note: 5e has very similar goals to what I wanted for Andras. That encourages me for some reason.