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My New Home

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Hey everyone, I am moving to be part of another blog. From now on I will be posting at Ideology of Madness in a column named Tragically Trad . This will allow me to reach a larger audience, and will help with the fact that law school can make my posting a bit irregular since there are a bunch of columns there. I will be covering some ground again. I don't know that I will review every issue again, but I am certainly going to use the increased exposure to talk about Knockspell, Fight On!, and the retro-clones. You may have a few questions: What the heck is "Trad"? "Trad" is a somewhat insulting term that story game people use to describe traditional gaming. Get it, TRADitional? What's with the rat tails? I got this one from Luke Meyer on the Podgecast . He jokingly claims that all trad gamers have rat tails because that was the haircut of the era. I have adopted these two things to have some fun with them. This blog is going to stay here. It is possible that...
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Customer Service

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The RPG Blog II pointed out that MWP pricing for the Cortex .pdf didn't make any sense. So they changed the price! My Kingmaker Pathfinder issue showed up with a broken spine, I emailed Paizo and they are sending me a new one. Good customer service does still exist.
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Dear,

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Anarchists Socialists Libertarians Porn Stars Pro-wrestlers Lion Tamers Republican Congressmen Southern Baptist Ministers Pagans Rabbis Witches Librarians Accountants Lawyers Yale Graduates GEDs MBAs Communists Doctors Cashiers Bankers Music Critics IT Professionals Video Game Designers Public School Teachers Engineers Housewives Stay-at-home Dads Artists Garbage Men Whale Trainers American Idol Contestants Pen and Paper Game Designers RPG Bloggers I'd gladly play D&D with any of you. Yes, even after this week RPG Bloggers.
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Stonehell: Advancement

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I recently was asked in a comment if there was enough gold in Stonehell to support the training costs in OSRIC for gaining a level. According to the OSRIC rules it costs 1500 gp per level to gain a level in training costs. I am using the entourage system in my game so there are 4 players but each also has a dedicated henchman. I would like for there to be enough gold on the first level for all of the primary characters and main henchman to advance to level 2, even if some of the henchman don't get enough XP until later. This means there will need to be around 12,000 gp. Some notes about my calculations: 1. This includes only the first level of the dungeon even though we also are playing the above ground areas. 2. I am including only treasure. I am not including the gold gained by selling weapons and armor taken off corpses. I am assuming that most of this goes to equipment, supplies, hirelings etc. 3. I am not including obscure things like selling natural resources to an alchemist....
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Bad News for Catalyst

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One of the RPG darlings of the last few years is in bad shape. From RPG.net by way of Fear the Boot : OK, as you may well have been able to surmise from release schedules, Catalyst Game Labs is in a bit of a financial pickle, and it is somewhat unlikely that they will retain the license to make Shadowrun products. This is not because Shadowrun hasn't been selling enough to cover expenses, but merely because a significant quantity of money is missing outright. Reliable sources put this figure at roughly $850,000. Which sounds like a lot, and it is. It is roughly 40% of Catalyst's entire sales for last year, missing over a three year period. There will of course be lawsuits, and there are already people drawing up legal documents accusing Loren Coleman of having hired people to construct an extension on his house through the company as "freelance writers" and somehow reporting an estimated $100,000 of convention sales as $6,000. Whether that is actually true or not is ...
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