Month: March 2010
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Answering some Puzzles: Empires and Economics
I was stuck at how does an empire of millions stretching thousands of miles get its funding. One of the…
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My Osric Character: Dwarven Fighter Thief
Rolled using http://www.pbegames.com/roller/ sending my GM the results simultaneously as I get them. As a one shot, a lot of…
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Game Design: an Expression of Understanding
I always try to express what I have just learned in my own words or game systems. Its a learning…
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Physics of Fighting
I’m doing some exercises right now both physical and in math. Just testing out my understanding of physics and comparing…
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Comparing History and Games in contexts of Civilization
After finishing a book on Ancient Empires before Alexander the Great and short nostalgia of Civilization I’m recounting my lessons.…
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Reimagining the Shortsword
I got a problem trying to imagine a shortsword. Warswords, as we know them, evolved from shortswords. This is an…
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Civilization 5 as your Mapmaker
I’ve missed Civilization for a while. It sucks too much time. Seeing the new Civilization 5, I found my new…
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Coordination Game and Battle of the Sexes.
I’d like to talk about game theory and how it relates to RPGs. The coordination game is very simple. You…
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Games Saving The World
This TED video sums up also my ideals and how I design games.
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What is the Bronze Age?
I got confused when I learned Alexander was using Iron weapons. I thought the glory days of Hellenism was the…
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Framing in Games
In psychology of video games, Jaime related how framing works out in WoW and in business. I discussed Framing in…
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Test run for Random Lord Generator
Experimenting with Random Lord Generator. I used this dice roller to generate a list of d6 rolls. Following the step…
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Female Warriors
One of the better threads, particularly since it is very constructive to me. Taking to account, biology and how it…
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Random Lord Generator and Empires before Alexander
The Random Lord Generator is meant to allow for the quick, simple, and detached creation of NPC lords as allies,…
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Mass Combat Low Tech Templates
Made a bunch of GURPS 4e Mass Combat Low Tech templates. They feature the basic Ally cost and some lenses.…
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Pacifism: Cannot Harm Innocents
The Pacifism: Cannot Harm innocents Disadvantage is common through out all cultures. Innocents and Humanity is diffused by the lense…
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How GMing was my Management Training, Old lessons
The reason i can emphasize so well with bad management was because there was a time I was a really…
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Sacred Oaths
The humble Serf, as well as Husbands and Wives, to entrepreneurial Peasant and Yeomen, to loyal Retainers and Vassals, the…
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War Campaign musing
I’ve joined Arm Chair Generals forums to work through some of my campaign problems. One of them, I’m stuck on…
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Wold Building Research Mind Dump
I broke my own home brew rules. I’ve gone back to the basics and tried again. This time a little…
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Levant aka Modern Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, and Syria.
Checking the wiki about each country and using google maps I found out that Israel and Palestine: 22,000 sq km…
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GURPS Mass Combat – Fief Manpower tables
Manpower is produced by a warlord’s fief or province. They don’t have a cost to raise because these are duties…
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GURPS Mass Combat Cards
GURPS Mass Combat is a tool so that you can run a fun and exciting War Campaign. I’ve trying to…
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[Strategikon] War Band of Adventurers
Strategos (Military Rank 8; Status 4) The General of the Army. Strategos mentioned are Belisarius, and Narses. Hypo Strategos (Military…
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Strategikon: Teasing out and its Details
The winds have died for my Crusader Era write ups. I’ll wait till the winds blow back at them again.…
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Management and Role-playing II; Problems with Pure Evil Races
Continuing The use of the Art Critical Thinking in RPGs. 1. Making High-Stakes Decisions – This is the introduction to…