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Review: Realm Works and Hero Lab

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Barwickian

After a year of running Pathfinder Society games almost exclusively, I needed to scratch the itch for a longer campaign with a regular group. With several regular PFS players feeling

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Gaming game aids, Pathfinder, tabletop 4 Comments

FASA Star Trek: to boldly go

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Barwickian

West of these out to seas colder than the Hebrides I must go Where the fleet of stars is anchored, and the young star-captains glow James Elroy Flecker I’m not

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My Pathfinder set-up

Posted on December 18, 2013 by Barwickian

I’m a rather old-school gamer, more used to descriptive combat, judgement calls and hand-wavery than a strict adherence to the rules. Even when I ran the tactically intense D&D3.5 I

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Dangerous Journeys: Mythus

Posted on July 7, 2013 by Barwickian

Note: Since writing this piece I’ve had the opportunity of playing in a Mythus campaign. You can read about those experiences here. Back in 1992 I was on the lookout

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Vancian magic revisited

Posted on July 3, 2013 by Barwickian

One of the things that’s bothered me about D&D from its early days was that magicians forget spells when they cast them – the so-called Vancian magic system, named for

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Chivalry & Sorcery: The Early Years

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Barwickian

Back in the days of the Loyal Order of Chivalry & Sorcery mailing list I enjoyed swapping emails – both public and private – with C&S designers Ed Simbalist and

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Gaming C&S, Chivalry & Sorcery, old school, tabletop 2 Comments

Traveller 5 review: second impressions

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Barwickian

As I keep reading the new Traveller 5 rules, I am becoming more and more impressed with them. The underlying mechanics – roll under a target number (often Characteristic +

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Gaming review, science fiction, tabletop, Traveller 16 Comments

Traveller 5 review: corrected character generation

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Barwickian

Mistakes I made in the archaeologist character. 1)      I missed a trade classification for Natoko; it’s a pre-rich world, so the archaeologist gets a craftsman skill as well (pop 9

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Traveller 5 review: First impressions

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Barwickian

As I’ve had the T5 rules for less than a day, this is not, at this stage, going to be an in-depth review at all. My aim here is to

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Gaming review, tabletop, Traveller 1 Comment

One character or many: an old-school turning point?

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Barwickian

When I started playing D&D in the early ’80s, it wasn’t uncommon for players to play several characters simultaneously. It wasn’t the way we played in my first game; there

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