The concept of a lingua franca is very important. In the real world, if you take two people completely at random, the chances of them sharing the same language– never mind a mother tongue or another language they’re both completely fluent in– is damn near zero. A Swiss pilot landing in Cairo, Egypt has to [...]
It was over three hundred years ago that the war against God began. It was just over sixty years ago that the war was finished. In the end, the arcane magics the mortals had cultivated proved triumphant, and God was slain.
At last, the plagues and foul beasts God had sent against the mortals were no [...]
I’m very proud to announce Monster Maker 3.5! There are a lot of great new features like auto-update, file association, an XML file type, and the ability to import monsters from the D&D Insider Compendium!
3.5 3/28/08
Now using ClickOnce to install Monster Maker. This will automatically set up file associations, add start menu entry, and add [...]
Here’s an untitled tool designed to help you find synergistic multiclassing in 4th edition. It takes into account which weapons/implements are used by the classes and what stats are important to them. It rates them on a scale from 0 (no synergy at all) to 5 (ideal match, meaning the classes share a primary and [...]
I’ve just released Ensemble, which helps inspire you to create PCs and NPCs by randomly generating class, race and backgrounds.
A wizard named Thorin built a tower in the middle of a forest to study his arts in seclusion. Thorin loved dogs, and brought many of them along with him. At some point, he created a spell to uplift all the dogs, giving them rudimentary intelligence and the ability to speak.
Thorin is long dead, but [...]
Jonathan at The Core Mechanic (and quite a few others) has been working very hard on an anthology of RPG blogs, collecting posts from some of the biggest ones out there and some of the smaller and more obscure ones as well. I’m quite proud to say that I’ve got a couple bits in the [...]
Hey everyone,
Just want to apologize for the downtime on this blog and asmor.com earlier today. There was a problem with one of my web host’s server clusters which knocked out a lot of sites, mine included.
