Last week my dear friend and brilliant designer Creighton Broadhurst unleashed a diatribe against the point-buy method of generation of ability scores and min-maxing. I’m here to tell you he is dead wrong. And I believe I can prove it.
Continue reading The Rise of Point-Buy and Joys of Min-Maxing
At the end of last session, we left our heroes advancing further into the dungeon below Windsong Abbey to escape a particularly pernicious trap…
I’ve recently posted about the fallacy of the adventurers backpack and kit for wilderness travel. I’ve become increasingly interested in creating my own adventurer’s kit to see how easy it would be to get out and go wild camping. At the same time, I though it would be cool to learn a bit more about bushcraft. So I purchased these books.
I’m in the process of gathering my kit. Hopefully, when the weather gets a little bit better, I’ll be off on an adventure! I’ll keep you posted.
I hate the concept of the dump stat with the blazing passion of a thousand fiery suns. To me, it smacks of this new fangled concept of character design, min/maxing and our obsession with the game’s mechanical aspects.
At the end of last session, we left the PCs in a grim situation: Zainnis and Shardane were dead and the quest seemed balanced on a knife’s edge.
Continue reading Shattered Star #86: The Corridor of Spiky Death
