Recent Posts Tagged With 'critical threats'

• 4th Power Project: Playtest Recap & Wealth

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 20:48 in rpg, critical threats, 4th power, 4th power project

  4th Power is my attempt to mash-up 4e and d20 Modern into an RPG that I want to play and run campaigns in, leveraging the stuff I like from both, along with other elements that try to fix what annoyed me about both systems. Well, on Halloween, I ran ...

• 4th Power Project: First Level Characters

  Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 22:24 in rpg, critical threats, 4th power, 4th power project

  Previous 4th Power Posts Well, I missed my first deadline by not posting feats last week. They ended up being more tricky than I thought. 4e and d20 feats all seem to be more combat-oriented, which was always my complaint with systems like Call of Ct...

• 4th Power Project: Skills

  Posted on Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 20:30 in rpg, skills, critical threats, 4th power, 4th power project

  I’ve got some core classes (which are pending some revisions), some at-will powers, and some other powers. Next step is relatively simple (but not without some thought): skills. While skills are not trivial in 4e, they ......

• 4th Power Project: Classes, Part 3 (Other Powers)

  Posted on Friday October 9th, 2009 at 22:08 in rpg, classes, game design, powers, d20 modern, critical threats, 4th power, 4th power project

  The beginnings of some at-will powers were posted last week- not all of them by any means, but I figured it was a start. Now as I mentioned then, at-will powers should come up fairly often, and be the stand-bys. The other powers are Per Scene (former...

• The 4th Power Project: Classes, Part 2 (At-Will Powers)

  Posted on Sunday October 4th, 2009 at 19:45 in rpg, critical threats, at-will, 4th power, 4th power project

  So here's what I think of as the next step, or at least a defining portion of the next step: at-wills. At-will powers accomplish a few important things in the game. They serve as the powers you will use the most, and throughout your entire career adv...

• The 4th Power Project: Core Classes, Part 1

  Posted on Friday September 25th, 2009 at 22:28 in rpg, critical threats, 4th power project

  Here's some actual crunch: the core classes. Just as in d20 Modern, there's one base class for each ability score. This setup is intuitive, and also allows for the different kind of teams you see in so many shows and movies....

• The 4th Power Project: Core Design Elements

  Posted on Friday September 18th, 2009 at 15:56 in rpg, critical threats, 4th power

  This week I'm going to tell you what my goals for the game are and some broad strokes as far as the rules go. However, I'm going to cover two things up front, which may disappoint some of you....

• The 4th Power Project: Background and Kickoff

  Posted on Friday September 11th, 2009 at 17:32 in rpg, d20 modern, critical threats, 4th power

  I am happy to announce a new series of columns here at Critical-Hits, authored by myself. It represents something we've never tried doing here before, coupled with a project that I'm quite excited about, and I hope you will be too....

• I Am A Liberal Gamer

  Posted on Friday August 28th, 2009 at 17:53 in editorial, video games, rpg, game design, fallout 3, tabletop games, critical threats, 4e, warhammer fantasy roleplay

  I'm a big proponent of change in game design. If something isn't working, don't just patch it, teardown and rebuild. This puts me in opposition to what I will respectfully call the "Conservative Gamer" contingent, who prefer that games preserve much ...