For the last two installments of Burst of Insight, I’ve been talking about rebuilding the fighter class. This week I give you a ready to playtest version of the class. Now, my goal was not to reinvent the whole...
Two weeks ago I decided to take a stab at redesigning the Fighter to address some of the dissatisfaction my table has had with the existing class. Dissatisfaction that has grown with the advent of more exciting martial-class options...
Another alternate fighter? Really? Yeah. Now the fighter as it stands is a viable option but it could be better. So, I thought I’d take a pass at modifying the class to make it a better fit for our...
So this has gone up quite a bit later than I had planned. Between the run-up to Christmas going on at the day job and the recent Thanksgiving holiday, I quite literally forgot today was my Tuesday. Shame on...
A lot of weight is put on the GM to run a great game but that’s not entirely fair to the GM. Sure, the GM is a huge part of why a campaign rocks or fizzles but they are...
Today is Halloween and that usually means horror, but today is also about dressing up in costume and ringing doorbells for treats, which if you ask me is a decent analogy for Pathfinder. We dress up in the personas...
Two weeks ago, we began a round-table interview with several celebrity GMs, Savannah Broadway (freelance editor and designer), Troy Lavalee (GM and producer of the Glass Cannon Podcast), Nicolas Logue (freelance designer) and Alan Venable (2016 Iron GM). We...
We often talk about game rules, modules, campaign setting guides, other books that directly impact your game table. What we don’t talk about so much is fiction and other non-game reading, and how what you read can make your...
Welcome to the latest installment of Burst of Insight. When I started this blog I had planned to alternate between talking about designing content for your table and interviewing industry experts on game topics. Over the course of this...
Beyond the Heist The narrative structure of RPGs is pretty universal. Everything that happens is from the PCs point of view and everything happens pretty much in chronological order, but as Ryan and Perram discussed on the last Know...