Back in 2014, I ran a Kickstarter for the Five Moons RPG, which I intended as a simpler take on the 3e/PF rules and focusing more on the “sweet spot” of adventuring (levels 1 to 12 in 3e/PF terms, before the math really starts to break down for high-level characters), flavored with some of my…
As my contract at Wizards of the Coast draws to a close, I’m looking at other options to take care of the bills, and one of the things I’m considering is having a Patreon. I’ve been wanting to push my creativity in different ways, and having a Patreon-style setup would definitely motivate me to create…
I posted a preview about bard game mechanics on the Five Moons blog.
Just in case you missed it on the Five Moons blog, I wrote an article about customizing your race, and reflavoring your leveled-up class abilities as new or advanced racial abilities.
I’ve put together a very short “pre-alpha playtest document” (basically a couple of variant chapters for 3e) over at the Five Moons blog. If you like, take a look at it over the next week or so and run/play a game session with it. Thanks!
The recent article about familiars prompted a question about death in Five Moons RPG. Namely, should coming back from the dead have a significant cost to it like it does in 3E/PF (5,000 gp diamond, negative level, and so on)? Does the lack of this sort of cost make death a trivial issue for adventurers? I…
I’ve posted several dozen unfinished minis to my Etsy store. Some of these have been in various stages of basing, primer, or the start of a paint job, and I’ve accepted that I have other projects (and other minis) that are higher priority than these. So I’m selling them, cheap, just in time for the…
Here is a link to the example-of-play video: a short video demonstrating gameplay in the Five Moons RPG. At the bottom of this post on the Five Moons RPG blog is a transcript of the video. If you like this post and where these ideas are going, please check out the kickstarter for my Five Moons RPG… there’s only 4 days…
This is a pointer to other things I’ve posted recently. I just wanted to make sure people see it if they’re watching this blog and not that one. :) I posted a prototype character sheet for the Five Moons RPG. In this kickstarter update I ask people what’s the next thing I should talk about in…
Here’s an interesting article on RPGs by John Wick. I always like hearing what he has to say, even if I don’t 100% agree with him. (I admit that his way of thinking has persuaded me in my shift away from D&D and the development of Five Moons RPG.)
I like cantrips. Part of my interest in cantrips was probably inspired by Jon Winter’s article “The Little Wish” in Dragon Magazine #221, where he offers suggestions as to what cantrips from each school can do (this is back in the 2E AD&D days, where there was a spell called cantrip, and it covered all the…
This is a pointer to a blog post about critical hits that I wrote for my Five Moons RPG blog. I just wanted to make sure people see it if they’re watching this blog and not that one. :)
Here’s some news about this blog and Five Moons RPG! 1) I’m in the process of migrating my Five Moons RPG blog posts from here over to the new Five Moons RPG blog! I’ll still be posting all the usual stuff here (and linking Five Moons RPG blog posts over there to here), so this blog…
The kickstarter campaign for my Five Moons RPG is now live at this link! Thanks in advance for your support!
One problem I mentioned in an earlier blog is how the ability to swap spells every day means a wizard can (in effect) rebuild himself from day to day to better handle the threats expected that day, whereas a martial character’s combat feats are “locked in” (barring the fighter ability to swap a few of them over…
Today’s Five Moons RPG blog is a quick preview of a prototype stone giant stat block. You can also get it from RPGnow/DriveThruRPG. The numbers are still very much in flux, but I wanted to show: how the stat block is simplified by removing redundant information (like not listing Iron Will because it’s already accounted for in the Will save…
I’ve written and developed about a zillion monsters for D&D and Pathfinder. Low CR, high CR, mythic, and many weird corner cases. One of the reasons I wrote the Great Paizo Mythical Stat Block Spreadsheet was to handle all of the cumbersome math and formatting for creature stat blocks–calculating BAB, saves, skill ranks, numbers of…
D&D/PF has presented a lot of different ways to generate your ability scores–some simple, some convoluted. Roll 3d6 each stat, in order. Roll 4d6 and drop the lowest, sort in order. 4d6 drop the lowest, sort as you please. Roll 6 times for each ability, take the highest result. 3d6 each score, in order, for 12…
That title is a lot of information. :p I’m writing a game called Five Moons RPG. I’m having a kickstarter to fund it, starting September 23rd. I’m having a kickstarter launch event on Facebook. To promote interest in the kickstarter and the launch event, I’m doing a series of giveaways between today (the 15th) and the…
Many of my blog posts about Five Moons RPG talked about things that are different from D&D/PF, but there’s a lot that’s similar! This article talks about some of that stuff (and for most of these topic’s I’ll be providing more info in the next few months). (Update September 23, 2014: If you like this post and where…
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