Travis Miller's Blog About Sword & Sorcery Fiction and Classic Fantasy Adventure Gaming
“People don’t want a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole in the wall.” Theodore Levitt XP is far less of an incentive than many game masters and designers think it is. Experience points are a proxy for what players want not the thing that players actually want. The myth of Experience Points as primary …
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There are legitimate concerns about AI and the impact it will have on people who write, paint, make songs, and do graphic design. It will change things but mostly for the commodity producers.
Everything is a Remix is a documentary that encapsulates a great deal of what I think about creativity.
Most of the time, old school referees use the rules and not all the rules are written.
Podcast and YouTube appearances, Setbacks and progress on projects. What I'm focused on for the last half of 2023.
The cleric is a class that is like licorice. Some players love playing clerics. Some players hate playing clerics. Few are indifferent. The cleric is quite versatile and can be key character in a lot of adventures. They have access to resources the other characters can't touch and as they go up in level, become …
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A lot of old school gamers love the fighter for the simplicity and joy of battle. What does my character do? He fights! It can be a great fun to play a reckless, ridiculously named, swashbuckling warrior who gets himself killed in a hilariously ignoble fashion. Sometimes you want your fighter to become a famous …
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