Last night, I played "Ghost/Echo" by John Harper with some friends. The video is embedded at the end of this post, but I'll explain a bit about the game first, because it's not what most people might expect. The actual Ghost/Echo page says: GHOST/ECHO is presented as an 'oracle game'. It provides only a starting point … Continue reading My first look at Ghost/Echo
The main reason I stopped playing D&D Fifth Edition was that it read too much like a set of software requirements (use cases). 5e writes everything out in expansive detail, rather than in a concise "Strunk & White-esque" manner. This drove me back to simpler rule sets like Swords & Wizardry and even Microlite20 or Searchers … Continue reading Musing on the implications of the D&D 5e SRD
So this weekend I'm going to run some D&D at a local makerspace (TheLab.ms has an open house Saturday evening for anybody in the Dallas-Plano area). I'm probably going to use "Searchers of the Unknown" by +Nicolas Dessaux or some variant thereof, because you can't get much simpler and call it D&D. Microlite20 would work just … Continue reading Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
Technoskald's Forge 