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I’ve finally finished entering the 15 sample characters I created into the manual. I had them each done up in excel worksheets for the five paces so I could keep track of them all, but the format for the excel sheets was to spacey to use in the manual (each character for each pace would [...]

A Sixth Hitchhiker’s Guide Novel

http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2009/03/11/penguin-books-reveals-new-hitchhikers-cover/
Apparently Penguin books has gotten Eoin Colfer to write a sixth installment of the Hitchhiker’s series. I’m not sure how I feel about this, yet. Is this something Colfer polished up from Adams’ notes? Is it a wholly original work? Either way, should it not be laid to rest? On the other hand, this could [...]

TETWOS II

So, it’s about time for another installment of Thing Every Two Weeks or So, but I haven’t written any new fiction, so I’ll have to cheat again. Not that I haven’t been busy writing, just not fiction. Anyway, here is a selection from a D&D 3.5 supplement Colin Fredericks was working on once. He actually [...]

Post Genericon Post

Well, GenericonXXII has come and gone. It was good to see people I only see maybe once a year, and it’s always an adventure to RP with strangers. I had pretty good luck in terms of compatible play styles, with only some mild hiccups.
Some highlights:

I finally got to play in a session of Sufficiently [...]

Whewwww

I am so burned out on character generation. I have 14 characters stated out at three paces each and I can tell you, some of those backgrounds are pretty weak. But you know what? I doubt anyone but me cares.
Anyway, I am very tired, so I am going to bed while the record sheets print [...]

Sample Character: Jefferson Leeds

The second Character from the gameplay demo, Jefferson Leeds.
PDF here.
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Sample Character: Martha Zinkowski

Martha was worked up originally as a Pace 2 character for inclusion in the narrative demo you may remember from a previous post. Here she is younger and at Pace 1.
PDF here.
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Sample Character: Steven Johnson

This guy is an adaptation of ’s Steven Johansson. I had to come up with the background as Colin was never able to flesh him out.
Here’s the PDF.
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Altering the Aid Mechanic, Revisited

So, I was thinking some more about the proposed revision to the Aid mechanic. The current mechanic is:
Whenever a Character makes a Check on an Ability that can be Aided, a reasonable number of cohorts with proficiency in the same Ability (or an Ability that may reasonably be useful) may aid him in his [...]

Statistics

So, a recent post (Altering the Aid Mechanic) led us to wonder whether adding a die to both the check pool and the opposition pool would increase the chances of a Thrash or if they would stay the same.
I took some time out this morning to roll the bones and preliminary findings support my [...]