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Here’s a new game that I’m looking forward to getting. You may want to support the Kickstart, too. Unlike most deckbuilding games, where you stock your personal deck to deal with adversity, in MSfG, you stock your opponents‘ decks with adversity. A well-themed game if I ever saw one. So show some support. If the Kickstart makes the $55,000 mark, Kickstarters will get an exclusive box, among the other rewards. Miskatonic School for Girls Deck Building Game by Luke Peterschmidt — Kickstarter.  Go ahead. I dare you to go to Amazon.com and search “Quentin Hudspeth”. Hurry up!
Well. Did you see it!? Just in case you missed it…
Morgenstern’s Spellbook and Resnet’s Spellbook are now available for bundle purchase at DriveThruRPG. Buy them together and save $1.50. Unfortunately, DriveThruRPG only allows bundles on PDF items at this time, so I can’t make a POD bundle. I’ll look into an omnibus edition for printing in the near future.
I’ll update soon with a link directly to the product, but in the meantime, here is a link to the Hudspeth Games general page at DriveThru: http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/index.php?manufacturers_id=3210&filters=0_0_0_0. That should keep you interested for all of 3 seconds. 9^> Slàinte, Q I just put the finishing touches on a short D&D setting hack that I’ve been working on for the past week. I play D&D biweekly with some local friends, and we have a deal where we swap off between two GMs (and campaigns) every three sessions or so. We’ve just shifted around to a different pair with Nelson running his first campaign with us. That started me thinking about planning ahead so I can take over for Joe when his campaign ends, assuming Mark doesn’t have something to run. I’ve had an idea for how to kick off the campaign for a little while now, but not much else. So I started thinking about overall plot. Now, I suck at the looking-three-moves-ahead thing, and developing a plot is my Achilles heel. So, when the barest thought struck me for a hack to the standard setting, I dove into it with gusto. See, that sort of stuff I can obsess over. It’s pretty much all I’ve been thinking about for days. I thought, why not explore a world where magic comes easily to everyone? Rather than having your standard spellcasting classes, anyone can learn to cast spells through feats. I ran with it from there, and now I have three new classes (which are probably overpowered, because, hey, it’s me, right?) and a nifty way of handling spells and psionics. So, now I have to get back to considering plot and long-term structure. Which never survives the first encounter with the players anyway. Once we start playing around with these rules and new classes and see how they balance out, I plan to share them with the world at large. Slàinte, Q Just finished uploading the second “printing” of Morgenstern’s Spellbook to DriveThruRPG. There were a few clarity and game balance issues that needed fixing, specifically on the spells Brevard’s Opalescent Tentacles, Disruptive Burst, Greater Disrupt Undead, Improved Disrupt Undead, Mundingle’s Arthritic Touch, and Symbol of Searing. Enjoy the new printing. Q Daniel Solis: Game Ideas from September – December 2010. Here’s an interesting riff on idea #3. A dice mechanic: Roll 3 dice, each a different color. Each color has a different distribution of values (like the d10s for Fantasy Flight’s Tomb). Each color represents a different long term effect, beneficial, neutral, and deleterious. The beneficial has the low numbers, the deleterious the high. Now, look at the results on the dice. Choose the one you want and accept the consequences. Q So, did I mention Zombie Planet, the most excellent game and comic shop in Albany, has a new forum? Well, they do. Now you can register to keep up with all things ZP. Want to discuss your latest gripe about game X? Want to gush over game Y? Or are you simply looking for someone, anyone, to play with you? Well, stop in at the forum and see what’s there. http://zombie-planet.proboards.com/index.cgi? Q So, I’ve mentioned Rebecca Mayes here before. She writes songs about video games. They aren’t exactly reviews or critiques, more like songs inspired by them, though they often have critical parts to them. The music is often ethereal and evocative, and always beautiful. Below is her offering for Halo 2. Usually, she pens her own lyrics, but these are the words of Marianne Williamson, as used by Nelson Mandela for his inauguration speech. Beautiful words on their own, but Rebecca manages to make them even more special. Listen. Q |
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