Recent content by Lastman

Is there a program that would let me clip 10 seconds of an MP3 and loop it to use as atmospheric background sounds during a session? Free and easy to use software would be best since I am not a programmer and have no audio design experience.

I'd like to try this out as a player before investing in the software to GM. Experienced RPer seeking group...

In Excel for d20 I use the formula: =RAND()*(20-1)+1 and substitute 4, 6, 8 etc. for the other dice. For maps I use The Gimp. Here's a cut-paste about my technique from another post. There's a free photo-editing program (similar to Photoshop) called the GIMP (Gnu Image Mapipulation Program)...

When my group played a battle between Argossean and Zingaran pirate ships, there were so many crewmen that we just used a one hit = kill for ordinary pirates and normal combat rules for engagements with boss pirates.

"Actually an Hiborian shoudn´t even know of the existance of some kingdoms... " Exactly. Metagaming is my pet peeve so I've dwelt on this too much... The PC's scope of knowledge is strictly local because their worldview is closer to that of cavemen than to ours. Considering the limits of...

I see the borders as ballpark estimates or a snapshot at one point in time. My campaign is set in early Hyboria, pre-Conan. A world map with borders is metagame info that the player characters, or even NPCs would never see. There's no systematic, coordinated, cartographer network in my game. I...