sometimes…

Sometime’s I just wanna scream “I DON’T OWE ANY OF YOU A FUCKING THING” and then shoot a potato through my computer screen.

Seriously. I hate the internet again! It must be February!

Piecemeal Armor Rules for D&D

So I’m playing D&D with my monday-then-tuesday-but-now-wednesday group. It’s fun. My character is badass and emo at the same time. She’s a rogue/cleric, and so far she’s exploded a skeleton (by turning it) and stabbed a dude in the lung, but then she healed it.

Anyway, the setting is a world that the DM has made up, based very loosely on Dark Sun and some other stuff. There a mountain with a dragon below it, and there’s 7 Giants who spend all their time keeping the Dragon asleep, cuz if it wakes up everythings gonna die, and this whole thing is surrounded by trackless desert, and so on. So, we geek out about cool stuff from Dark Sun that should exist in this world, and piecemeal armor kept on coming up. Like, gladiators with platemail arms and chunks of chainmail, elven nomads rockin’ layers of skins with metal sewn into them, whatever.

So, with some spare time in my weekend, I made up some piecemeal armor rules. I really like them! They’re only a little more complicated than armor already is in D&D, and I think they lend a lot of flavor to the whole endeavor. There’s also a system for piecemeal armor getting destroyed in combat, which is easily extensible to being a general armor destruction system that doesn’t involve any new mechanics beyond what you already use in combats. Which is pretty cool.

Anyway, pending DM approval, we’re gonna use ‘em in my game. I’m posting the 5-page PDF here also, in case anyone is interested in checking them out, especially people with more experience with 3.5 than I have (which is anyone who’s played it for more than 2 sessions, at this point).

So, the D&D Piecemeal Armor Rules are linked right there. Lemme know whatcha think!

Reasons Why I Publish

• I like doing it.
• It makes me happy.

Huh. Same reasons why I play games.

A Little Thing

I’m cleaning my desk, and I just found the stuff from my playtest of Annalise back at JiffyCon. Here’s the claims that were made during that game:

• theft
• iPod
• Jenny’s vulnerability
• car
• Piercings
• Heavily Tattooed
• “Victim of Society” type store
• Mr. Mysterious (used a lot)
• Crush (used the most, I think)
• could have been suspended (used)
• Blood (used, I think)
• The Tattoo Parlor
• Your Most Reviled Teacher (used one, maybe?)
• warning from a teacher

So, this little list makes me happy, in the “oh I totally remember where all those things came up in our game!” way.