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Posted By J P on March 11, 2010

FS Modern Character Sheet

Yes, it’s that time again.  I have compiled a new set of updated FS character sheets, now with juncture skinning and “watermarking”, shot counter, Big Bruiser/Normal dual Death Check/Impair listing (on one sheet) and streamlining a few different rough edges from the initial batch.

• 69AD “Jade”
• 1850 “Papyrus”
• Modern “Chrome”
• 2052 “Circuit”
• General Basic “Vanilla”
• Zip of all five 2010 sheets

Hope those are of use to someone!

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Posted By J P on February 23, 2010

Thought I’d posted these before.

For the Baptism of Fire intro in the back of the Feng Shui RPG core book, I created a page of Character/NPC/Location “cards”, which could be cut up and given or referenced individually by players to help, through visual aid, to establish a mental image of some of the things and people in the scenario.

Also for BoF, a newspaper article I wrote up showcasing the Eating Counter, to help establish depth and backstory.

Lastly, a possibly useful quick reference sheet I made up with various tables and formulas used in Feng Shui.

Cards

Newspaper Article about the Eating Counter

Reference Sheet

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Posted By J P on February 22, 2010

There are, surprisingly, a number of impressive websites that allow you to create graphical or visual representations of your own favorite superheroes, either very close to existing ones or those of your own creation! These are particularly handy for making stand-up, counters, “action figures”, miniatures and models, which are used by a lot of tabletop roleplaying games. Oh, and for the most part, you can create heroes of any sort, contemporary everyday people to adventurers from a fantasy world.

What I did NOT expect was to find so MANY of the “make your own” style websites, and I’m not just talking about superheroes here; there are “make your own living room”, “make your own celebrity”, “make your own shirt”, “make your own normal person” (doll), pets, buildings, locations, just about anything else, some in rather unassuming places on the web. I am very impressed with the amount of free resources available to people wanting to create their own virtual scenes, people and such, but lack the artistic talent to do so.

At any rate, I’ll just give you the rundown and it should really keep you busy for… well, practically forever! Although the different sites have different methods for “saving” your finished work, I personally advise taking a screenshot of your finished creation FIRST, opening up a graphics program like MS Paint, Paint.Net, GIMP, Photofiltre or any other suitable application, paste it out of your clipboard as a new image, and save it to your hard drive.

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Posted By J P on February 20, 2010

WFRP3 Character Sheet

Well, it’s February of 2010 now, and Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 3rd Edition has been out since about November of 2009, so roughly three to four months – so how has it been received?

Rodney Thompson, an actual game designer over at WFRP’s (and everyone else’s) main competitor for dominant fantasy RPG, Wizards of the Coast (D&D), wrote up quite a comprehensive WFRP3 review and his thoughts on running the new release, and in a surprise twist, most of it was quite a glowing endorsement.

the Altdorfer Correspondent does an interesting “unboxing”, for those interested in approaching the system from a step-by-step “I am opening the box.  I am looking inside the box…” method.

Although a bit late in my posting, Fantasy Flight Games in January, announced the Game Master’s Toolkit, which cost the, I guess not outrageous sum of $30.00, and which looks pretty slick, like the rest of their line, and promises more cards and other such things, which I guess if you’re a fan of the new system, is good news.  Also check out this Amazon.Com offering for WFRP2’s super rare Career Compendium – $80 to $132? Are you joking?!

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Posted By J P on February 17, 2010

Mazes and Monsters

Summary: Some girl in some campus somewhere killed people a long time ago, because D&D made her do it, and a guy did the same thing.   The girl, Amy, is now a research scientist, so she must have made her Fast Talk check, or at least her lawyer made his Law roll?

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1233150

Thank you, Boston Herald, once again, you shine the bright light of illumination on the dank corner that is fantasy roleplaying games.  May the gods smile upon you and let you know that the full name of the evil game is “Dungeons and Dragons”, not Dungeons, and “slay” is not a noun.

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