Monthly Archive for: ‘May, 2012’

Bodgers Games

Review: Infernal Contraption 2nd Edition

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Quick, Colorful Mayhem for 2-4 Players Are you a fan of goblins, or in this case bodgers? Particularly the kind …

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Save or Die, and other “Bad” Game Design

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Video Game Analogies, Because I’m Dumb Yesterday a comparison came up regarding old game design ideals and the evolution of …

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D&D Next: Shaping up to be a cookbook full of recipes for “Awesome”

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Check out my piece over at Kobold Quarterly for my overall thoughts from the Friends & Family D&DNext closed playtest. …

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The D&D Next Public Playtest Is Here, I Can Talk Now

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Finally! To those of you who haven’t managed to deciphered what I”ve been doing lately, I can finally come out …

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I’m A Bad Geek

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1000mg of Honesty Without naming names or giving disrespect to anyone, I can’t stand most D&D blogs lately. There are …

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Healing Surges in 5e, Room For Two?

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Let’s Just Call Them Surges

What if it were implied that surges just in fact gave a surge of something not to be named. We’re sticking to abstraction here, right? A surge of courage, energy, bravado, luck, knowledge…you get the picture. Why not use surges identically as previously but imply that they could be many things, that they can be traded in for a burst of HP, but perhaps not always.

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