Shadowrun 5th Weapon Reviews

Courtesy of Zemalac: A review of all 5th Edition Weapons.

Romanes Eunt Domus

An interesting look at the Roman Legion structure.

A Revision to Alchemy [D&D 5th]

D&D 5th leaves a lot of item creation not particularly fleshed out.  While that's likely intentional, it leaves a lot of detail to be desired.  ENWorld contributor Fralex came up with a complete overhaul for Alchemy that makes it rather detailed and diverse.  Check it out here.

Indexing Free D&D 5th Content

Given Wizards of the Coast's new, Super Intuitive web site, I figured I would index all of the PDF content for D&D 5th I could find for some ease of use.

Another Mock Draft

MTG Mock Draft

Roll20 Shadowrun Macros

I had my first session of Shadowrun 20th Anniversary Edition using the free Roll20 virtual tabletop on Saturday.  All in all, it took a huge amount of hackery in advance to make work, but I'm pleased at the result to a certain degree.  It made large combats not a horrible painful chore like they had been, and really smoothed up a lot of things.  All in all, it went well.  Two things were lacking: Firstly, their Wound Mod calculation didn't work most of the time; and secondly, it lacked the ability to take successes on an attack roll and turn them into a boost for damage dice, meaning that a second macro with more user inputs had to handle damage.  In any case, here's the set of macros that I used to work most of the combat in-engine, since I noticed next to no support on the wiki.

Changes Revealed by the Call of Cthulhu 7th Ed Quickstart

I very much dig the changes in 7th edition from a gameplay perspective.  Here's why.

Cthulhu 7th Edition Quickstart

Chaosium has posted a QuickStart for Cthulhu 7th Edition. You can find it on DriveThruRPG and Chaosium's site.

A summary and review are forthcoming.

D&D Next Release Schedule

• Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set (July 15, 2014); Fantasy Roleplaying Fundamentals; $19.99; Will include six dice, a 64-page rulebook with adventure, rules for characters levels 1-5, and 5 pregenerated characters.
• Player's Handbook (August 19, 2014); Core Rulebook; $49.95
• Hoard of the Dragon Queen (August 19, 2014); Tyranny of Dragons Adventure; $29.95
• Monster Manual (September 17, 2014); Core Rulebook $49.95
• The Rise of Tiamat (October 21, 2014); Tyranny of Dragons Adventure $29.95
• Dungeon Master's Guide (November 18, 2014); Core Rulebook $49.95
• Deluxe DM Screen (January 20, 2015); $14.95

Ars Technica Measures Which Steam Games We Play, and Which We Don't

And here's a quick summary of the unplayed titles:

More in the original article, here.

Draft Time!

This week's draft.

I passed up on a fairly strong counter-draft in Round 3, which is my only anxiety: first and second picks were Shock.

Re-doing This Week's Draft

I wasn't happy about the lack of removal I had earlier in the week.  Here's B/R Aggro from the same card pool.

This week's draft

Courtesy of the Magic Draft Simulator: A R/G Sliver deck. I'm not happy with the amount of removal I drew (next to 0).

PAX East Future of PC Gaming Panel

Milk Run Structure

So far, my Shadowrun 4 campaign has largely been narrative-driven, but the players have finally transitioned into being runners. The downside of having players with limited playtime, hacking through three sessions has taken six months. I intend to expand my campaign's player base, and offer mini-sessions, possibly via roll20, called "milk runs." Here's the format I have planned for each Milk Run.

CCP Cancels WoD MMO

Sadface.  Via Gamespot:

The studio says it was "falling regretfully short" in its goals of creating an vampire-themed MMO. Following the cancellation, 56 employees at the Atlanta, Georgia studio have been laid off. Some of the team are said to have been offered other roles within the company, with the remaining staff at the studio now working on games set in the EVE universe.

Star Citizen Dogfighting Module Footage Released!

Another Magic Draft

Another Magic Simulated Draft.  This week, a BU removal-heavy deck with one real bomb (Guardian of the Ages) and two tutors to nab it.

And this is why I don't play DayZ.

Spotted on a stream run by The Syndicate Project.

WoW 6.0 Patch Notes

WoW Alpha 6.0 Patch Notes are up.  Here they are on MMOC.