After a several month hiatus I’m back to thinking about crafting in 4e. My idea of crafting in 4e actually spawned from a desire to have some amusing–and unreliable–Tinker Gnome items, called Gadgets. Gadgets are widely varied so I realized that I would have to devise a way to allow as much creativity as possible. In thinking about such a system I came to the conclusion that I may as well just design an entire crafting system. I worked slowly (five posts across six weeks), not really getting anywhere with it. When it came down to it, I just didn’t have the drive to inject a full-fledged crafting system into 4e. Perhaps in the future I’ll get the drive to do it–but I didn’t have it then, and I don’t have it now. So it’s back to a focused tinkering system.
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Over at Bard of Valiant there was some discussion about GM screens.  I mentioned my custom screen and people were excited enough that they wanted to see and know more.

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Perhaps I was living under a rock but until a few months ago I had never heard of Dark Sun. Deadgod was telling me about it, and frankly, I wasn’t impressed. I thought, “So basically–it’s like Tatooine, but in D&D? That doesn’t sound interesting at all.” Don’t get me wrong, Tatooine is a cool place and any Star Wars RPG Campaign worth its salt will see the heroes on the planet multiple times, I just didn’t see why there was a D&D campaign setting based around a sand planet. At least until I read up on the world of Athas and its history.

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Dark Sun has been announced as the D&D 4e campaign setting for 2010. I’m sure you already knew that though given the speed of the internet and all.

Plus, a Ravenloft Board Game!

Updates as we have them.

The great Buddha of gaming, Jeff Rients, once posed a form of gaming called “retro-stupid” which is comprised of using older systems (or systems that feel older) and incorporating them in ways that don’t take themselves seriously.  Mutant Future is such a game.  If you take HackMaster as your core and dip it in a coating of Mutant Future, hopefully you come away with something akin to a Reese’s Cup of retro-stupid.

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Need a bit of technobabble to make your warp core engineer sound like he knows what he is talking about?  Try this video out.