Tag: game
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D20 with Advantage
D&D players spend a lot of time rolling D20s. Sometimes they 'roll with advantage' - that is, roll two dice and take the largest. Last night I dreamed I derived the probability matrix for such rolls, and it got me thinking... could you construct a single die that rolls 'D20 with Advantage'?
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ARCC
I've finally reached a point at which I've seen almost everything in ARCC, so it's time for me to shout a glowing review about why you should give it a go , too.
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Multi-Phase Maps in FoundryVTT
Using FoundryVTT's powerful API and a little bit of JavaScript code, we can easily produce a battlemap that changes through a series of phases as the adventure progresses. Here's how...
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Let Your Players Lead The Way
In gradually becoming a better RPG gamemaster, the toughest lesson for me has been how to surrender control to my players. Here's the story of the importance of that lesson, and some of the mistakes I've made along the way.
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Icebreakers - Heraldry and Compairs
For my team meetup, I developed a couple of icebreaker games - Heraldry and Compairs - and I'd love to share them with you, if you're interested!
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A Proper Cup of Tea
This "choose your own adventure"-style game about making the perfect cup of tea is just... excellent. If you lack the imagination to understand how a game like this could have dozens of possible endings, you desperately need to play it.
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My Favourite Video Game Easter Egg [Video]
A video version of my blog post "My Favourite Video Game Easter Egg", in which I show you Alorik's crystal ball from Ultima Underworld II and tell you why it's so important to me.
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My Favourite Video Game Easter Egg
My favourite video game Easter egg is Alorik's crystal ball from 1993's Ultima Underworld II, and I'd love to tell you why.
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Fedicard
Yeah, that's about right.
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Hot on the heels of my victory over Wonder Boy 35 years after I first played it, I can now finally claim to have beaten Golden Axe, 25 years after I first played it.
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A young boy in green pyjamas stands alongside a video games cabinet. The screen shows 16-bit graphics of a golden axe, below which the text reads: "After a long, hard battle you finally defeat the evil emperor. Now the world will be at peace again. You are a true hero!"
Couldn't have done it without my magic-wielding 7-year-old co-op buddy.
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[Bloganuary] Playtime
Do I get to "play" in my daily life? Absolutely. For this Bloganuary prompt, I'm looking at the ways in which I play.
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Wonder Boy
I first played Wonder Boy on an arcade machine 35 years ago, and have played on-and-off ever since. Until today, when I finally beat it for the first time.
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Easy FoundryVTT Cloud Hosting
People keep asking for a quick-and-easy guide to setting up a cloud hosted FoundryVTT server. So I wrote one.
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Woodward Draw
Over the course of three days, I completed excellent 4-letter-word-puzzle-game Woodward Draw, and I think you should give it a go too.
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Paul Labyrinth
An open-source program that combines WikiData with a random generator to come up with almost-invariably inaccurate but sometimes hilarious facts.