GM's Day Sale & Gaming New Year

Well as we all know GM's Day  is coming to an End. So I kinda made a Suggestion today that this is the Gaming New Year as well, as Gary Gygax "entered the dungeon for the last adventure" on March 4th, 2008. So we March Fourth into a New Year of Gaming.

I even mentioned it to Ernie Gygax. He suggested this year be the Year of the Phoenix in Celebration of all the Old School Renaissance goodness going on.

So welcome to The Year of the Phoenix. 6 A.G. (After Gary or After Gygax, take your pick. I prefer After Gary, as there is still a Gygax or two making an impact on the Gaming World)

Use the Year of the Phoenix as a storytelling device the entire year in your games. Have your games revolve around resurrection of bad-guys, or name groups after the phoenix. In a modern game, you could have a major base of operations be set in the City of Phoenix.

Let's hear ideas for 7 A.G.'s title. Seven is a lucky number....it rhymes with Heaven...suggestions?

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Now back to the Gm's Day Sale. This is a 30% off sale at Drivethru RPG, best to take advantage of the BIG items you might have been thinking bout getting, but just hadn't gotten around to it.

The Big Guns...



Numenera - $13.99 If you'd been thinking about getting it, and just hadn't...well strike while the Numenera are in safe mode!



Ptolus - $41.99 This is a big one, normally $59.99, or $89.99 for a standard hardcover through DTRPG, This campaign setting by Monte Cook is well loved by many.



Midgard Setting - $13.99 If you missed the Bundle of Holding, and really wanted  Midgard, now's your chance, at $13.99 it's not a bad deal.



Streets of Zobeck - $6.99  more Midgard setting info!!

I will post more big DTRPG goodness tomorrow!

Numenera, Short Order Heroes and 2d10

Numenera,

d20 Hate
Well if you follow this blog, you know that I HATE the d20 linear probability. Looking at the rules for Numenera I think I can easily drop the d20 for my favored 2d10. The easy target number 3 with a d20 is a 10% chance of failure(not that easy)...Easy Target number 3 with 2d10 equals a 99% chance of success...a true easy skill check...

Short Order Heroes and Numenera
As Numenera uses 3 stats and Short Order Heroes uses 3 personality cards there's a real easy way to utilize SHO cards in Numenera. 1 card per stat.

Choose your Class
Draw your cards and add the numbers to your stats. Pull three cards, the three cards will have stats from 0 to 7. But only 1 card of 108 is a 0, so most are going to be between 1 and 6.

For Example:
Gullible 1
Enthusiastic 4
Well-armed 4



Add them to your Jack in the order you want
Might 10 + 4 Well-Armed
Speed 10 + 4 Enthusiastic
Intellect 10 + 1 Gullible

Or
Expendable 2
Cute 5
Glum 4

Add them to your Glaive in the order you want
Might 11 + 5 = 16 Cute
Speed 10 + 4 = 14 Glum
Intellect 7 + 2 = 9  Expendable

Now you have a set of traits for your personality. Pretty cool. Of course this gets away from the standard point buy, but if you really want to utilize the point buy, then just use the SHO cards for personalities.

Edit: After thinking about it for a little bit at lunch, I think I would drop all the starting scores by 1 or 2, remove the 0 and the 7 cards from the deck. This will give an average of 2-3 added to the stats, which would be closer to the intended stats.

Add them to your Glaive in the order you want
Might 10 + 5 = 15 Cute
Speed 9 + 4 = 13 Glum
Intellect 6 + 2 = 8  Expendable