I’m A Bad Geek

May 11, 2012 Dread Gazebo 41

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

Healing Surges in 5e, Room For Two?

May 1, 2012 Dread Gazebo 4

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.

Abstraction in D&D: Perfections & Pitfalls

March 21, 2012 Dread Gazebo 14

There is beauty in the amount of abstraction that goes into playing 4e D&D. On one hand you have these great things like “combat advantage” that sum up a huge variety of situations with a simple set of words, also…