Saturday, November 30, 2013

Building a Better D&D?

I don't know how many of us in the OSR/RPG blogosphere have seen it, but there is an ongoing(?) examination of the D&D game rules going on at Building a Better D&D.  I stumbled across this site months ago but lost track of it until recently.  I am sure many of you will find something of use in many of the 54 entries.  Thoughts? 

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Perilous Journeys Character Creation Reference

Just a little document I whipped up for Perilous Journeys that collects various bits of character creation information in one spot. The information presented below is also available as a downloadable document at this location here.

Character Creation Reference

Standard Method
Race
Points
Health
Agility
Mind
Speed
Human
185
40-90
20-60
35-60
35-55
Dryad
200
45-90
25-60
45-65
40-55
Dwarf
190
50-95
25-60
35-55
30-50
Elf
200
40-80
35-65
45-65
40-60
Fomorian
185
50-90
30-60
35-55
30-45
Gnome
190
40-90
30-60
35-60
35-50
Lurikeen
200
40-75
40-65
40-65
45-70
Wild Elves
195
40-80
40-70
35-60
40-65
   
Optional Method
Race
Points
Health
Agility
Mind
Speed
Human
160
1d20
1d10
1d10
1d12
Dryad
160
2d12
1d10+4
1d10
1d10+2
Dwarf
160
3d6+6
1d10
1d8
1d8
Elf
160
2d12+2
1d10+4
1d12
2d6
Fomorian
160
3d6+2
2d8
2d6
1d10
Gnome
160
2d8
3d6
2d6
1d12
Lurikeen
160
2d6+2
1d12+2
1d10+4
1d12+2
Wild Elves
160
1d12
2d10+2
1d8
1d6+1

Abilities
Race
Excluded
Restricted
Human
None
None
Dryad
Psionics, Theurgy
Commerce, Games, Marining, Metallurgy, & Streetwise
Dwarf
Chivalry, Psionics
Ranging, Survivalist, & Marining
Elf
None
Commerce, Evaluation, Mechanics, Metallurgy, Planning, & Streetwise
Fomorian
Psionics, Theurgy
Commerce, Necromancy, Scholarship, & Sorcery
Gnome
Chivalry, Psionics
Marining, Minstrelsy, Ranging, Survivalist, & Improvised Fighting
Lurikeen
Chivalry, Psionics
Commerce, Mechanics, Metallurgy, Planning, Pastoral, & Marining
Wild Elves
None
Arcanum, Chivalry, Commerce, Marining, Mechanics, Metallurgy, & Streetwise


Saturday, November 2, 2013

FedEx Came By Yesterday...

I had the pdf copy for quite some time but I finally got a printed book!
I am off to do some reading...