This dude posted 700+ Exalted images to his picasa. Comics, almost all the art from first and second edition as well as some (good and bad) fan made art. Great stuff and lots of carnage and boobs.
Category: RPG
It’s good.
Gygax memorial in Lake Geneva
Better than my imagined tourist trap “Home of Dungeons and Dragons,” which would likely have Hasbro lawyers swarming the area until it was shut down, land has been granted for a memorial to Gary Gygax in Lake Geneva.
Bulldogs funded!
Looks like my first Kickstart backing has made it’s mark and is going to press shortly. While this one worked out, the Kickstart system is essentially ‘pledge to buy it before it exists’ which is a huge risk of something totally sucking ass. You don’t get charged until the funding goal is met so you’re covered if it doesn’t make it’s funding (and most projects on there don’t). I think a few lessons from watching this and some other projects–have your shit close to done, if not totally done, so you can show off pieces to people and let them know that “hey this is not just an idea, this is something real, we just need funding to publish it or get through X phase.” Artwork is also key at the funding stage. If you can put together some good comps that spark the imagination in people, the cash is probably going to flow pretty well. One kickstart I saw had a description of “I don’t want anyone to steal the idea” which is silly because HUNDREDS of people have had the same idea and will probably not get it executed. Needless to say, that had no funding at all.
So I’m looking forward to seeing the Bulldogs book and will be checking Kickstart for good stuff which I’ll post. The awesome thing is that this system totally circumvents the current publishing system while allowing people to not have to take out big loans or self-fund their (good) ideas.
My first Kickstart backing
Kickstart is a place where people can put up products they want to develop along with a cost to start. They then solicit pledges from people and if the project $ goal is met, the project (supposedly) commences. Of course, most of Kickstart’s stuff is crap, but they do have a bunch of games up there, most are just crap ideas that will never see the light of day, but some are really interesting and I bit on one of them: a pulpy sci-fi pen and paper RPG using the Fate system called Bulldogs. As there are pledge rewards, pushing them 50$ or so seemed like a good idea since, if the project goes through, you get a copy of the book along with certain pledge levels: essentially buying it before it exists.
This is definitely something I want to try for a couple game ideas I have kicking around, so I also figured I’d back a project and see what happens.
For those privileged enough to currently suffer through my Exalted campaign, no worries: I am not switching systems! Exalted, burrs and all, is just an awesomely fun game to play, and as my heaving bookshelves can attest, I’m in it for the long haul. This could turn into a discussion of the Fate system and why it’s so intriguing, but that’s a dog for another day.
Anathema with Lunars and Abyssals (and Sidereals) oh my!
Ok well my job as a GM just got a shitload easier. Exalted antagonists are troublesome to create at best and extremely time consuming at worst. While appreciate some of the other efforts to digitize the creation process, Anathema has by far the best usability and resulting character sheets, but has been stuck with Solars and Dragon Bloods for years now– many years actually, due to the original development team backing away from the project. Well, as hinted in an over-exuberant post last summer, Anathema 2.0 has been released and includes Abyssals and Lunars AND Sidereals. I’m just grabbing it now to give it a go.
In addition to having the new splats integrated, ANATHEMA is the place that best collates all the extra charms for Solars and DB’s into one handy dandy program. So if you are just a player (and I envy you if you are because you get the easy part) this is still worth a download. You will need to procure or enter your equipment data in the system still, and the charms have no text (just page numbers in whatever tome contains them), but still it’s quite an asset for players as well as GMs.
Confrontation lives! (on the computer…)
Shacknews posted a bit that the developers of GW’s Blood Bowl will be doing a computer version of Rackham’s Confrontation– and absolutely excellent miniature skirmish game (at least the 3.0/3.5 rules era). Now I have another excuse to NEVER PAINT MY DRUNE.
Link for more info. This is one I will be following as closely as allowed by the interweb tubes.
WFB 8 Battle Report: Beastmen vs Goblins (or– Thank you Anvil of Vaul!)
Cain indulged the current obsession for the fourth time this weekend hauling his Night Goblin swarm over to pit them against the primal fury of the beastmen in Warhammer Fantasy Battle. We rolled ‘battle for the pass’ for the scenario, which means the armies fight it out starting on the short ends of the 6′ X 4′ table rather than the long ones as normal. This gave a very compact center with little room on the flanks for maneuver or trickery. At 1500 points per side, that made for quite the crowded table with few places to escape the big blocks of rank n file. A tough fight for the goblins to start with as the table set up neutralized the Gobbo advantages on the flanks (there weren’t any!) was exacerbated by a bit of terrain that worked just a wee too well in the beastmen’s favor: the Anvil of Vaul (oh and his fanatics).
Under normal circumstances, the Anvil of Vaul, which gives Flaming and Magical attack augmentation to all units within 6″, would be a pretty even bonus for both sides in a fight, but I just happened to choose Blackened Plate as my only magic item for the army (man was 1500 points a squeeze). Blackened Plate gives a 2 up ward save to the wearer against flaming attacks AND a 4 up ward save for any unit he is with. In the clutch block on block fights during the battle, all within 6″ of the Anvil of Vaul, this gave my main Gor unit, who usually go skin with no save at all, a horrific advantage over the Goblins leading to their decimation, flight and subsequently ending up inside a stomach for their pains. Still it was a great game and we’re finally getting down the rules. It’s been tough to remember the fiddly bits here and there and to remember that Charges are resolved before compulsory movement (a big change from almost every Warhammer ruleset I’ve ever played) but we’re getting closer. One makes a big investment getting into a game like Warhammer, and committing to an edition and so far I couldn’t be more pleased with the games played– all just a total blast that makes 4 hours go by in a wink.
My list was finally legal after struggling to reconcile the 7th edition book with the 8th edition rules (sorry Cain) but was not fully painted, which is my personal shame as I really dislike hitting the table with unpainted stuff:
Gorbull (General)
Blackened Plate*
Wargor (Battle Standard Bearer)
Bray Shaman Level 1 (Lore of Beasts)
Core:
38 Gor with additional hand weapons, standard, musician and champion (both the Gorebull and Wargor joined this unit)
10 Gor with additional hand weapons, musician (in ambush)
29 Ungor with spears and shields, standard, musician (the Bray Shaman joined the ungor)
2 Tuskagor Chariots
5 Chaos Hounds
Special:
Razorgor (played by a Hound of Scathach from Confrontation)
Rare:
A big fat Giant!
Avadon the Black Fortess is out
More new old school. Really looking forward to picking this game up and giving it a go. 25$!
That said, here are a bunch of old, free rogue-likes compiled by digital eel (the strange adventures in infinite space dudes) to whet your whistle.
Some Old School Awesome
