LOCATION: a region of rolling hills with an old watchtower on top of one of them, providing a good view on the surrounding hills as well as being visible from all around. BACKGROUND: With the border it was meant to guard gone since a couple of decades, the watchtower fell into disuse but as a […]
Today is D&D Day, I am happy to be a player ones more and to meet with my fellows. As a “labor of love” I improvised some quick-n-dirty “Tracker Handouts” for food and water as well as copper coins. We are currently in a jungle exploration campaign (treasure hunting, of course), the constant up and […]
I am a fan of an old Japanese horror movie named Matango about people stranded on an island and some dangerous mushroom that turns people into something else. Always I wondered how the writer came up with that idea, as to me it seemed like it inspired of lot of similar ideas. Well, I found […]
According to this article on gizmodo.com, the ongoing fan rage has at least made WotC/Hasbro hesitate to act according to the own schedule. OGL 2.0 (as the leaked document is now called) is delayed further and still not out YET. I still think that it -will- be out at some time, but I am happy […]
My 2023 started about as nice as I already guessed it to become. One of the things that currently darkens my mood is the leaked OGL 1.1 document by WotC. I won´t rant here, as I already -lamented- in my last mail. I was so struck that I did not realized back then that the […]
As you may or may not have heard, Wizards of the Coast(tm) has “updated” the OGL license from 1.0 to 1.1. By doing so, they rendered OGL 1.0 (bascially) nill and naught by saying that it is now (quote) “no longer an authorized license agreement.” As an Indie Publishers, this basically yanked away the carpet […]
Legend has it that Mahal was a famous slave master that has served a total of three different rulers in the palace of Baghdad, in the old days. Trusted and appreciated in his function by his superiors, the slaves feared him more than the devil himself. Not for the punishments he could devise (although those […]
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