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Beast of Namgakksan – Your Korean Culture Lesson

Each of the characters has a quick personality sketch based on the character’s corresponding Chinese zodiac symbol. This, however, need not be the sum depth of the character. An important aspect of any individual in Choson (What Koreans call Korea Read more…


Beast of Namgakksan – Setting teaser

This is the teaser that I’m going to use to advertise the game. This could certainly lead into a campaign, but I need to plan it for about a four hour session. This is a dark time for Korea. A Read more…


The Four Worthies – Stats

The Edges as written don’t really allow for designing certain character aspects (especially martial arts), so some edges have been modified and some edges have been added. A quick description is included in brackets. Also, each character has a Birthright Read more…


The Four Worthies

Each of the characters will be based on a paradigm or role common to wuxia or historical action/fantasy movies. The actual personality will be based on the character’s Chinese zodiac symbol. The characters are listed by the name commonly used, Read more…


Beast of Namgakksan

So I am developing a one-shot game to deliver at the Ottawa Go-Play mini-con. I will post aspects of the development here. It may offer some inspiration and ideas. What I’ll be doing here is developing the characters and some Read more…


Starting Up A Game (I Hope!)

I am planning on beginning a role-playing game in Ottawa (Ontario, Canada). The game would happen every other (or every third) Thursday, starting at 7 PM. I am looking for between 4 and 6 players. There would be an initial Read more…


the Grim-N-Gritty Hit Point and Combat Rules

I’m one of those people who doesn’t really like the present rules for armour class and hit points in d20. Chris Marlowe has written an article about the same dissatisfaction. In that article, Mr. Marlowe discussed a few solutions. Well, Read more…