I've been reading some entries in the ThreeForged RPG Design Challenge. If you haven't heard of it or checked it out, head on over to http://halfmeme.com/threeforged_voting.html.  Here's my first installment of thoughts.

Now available free for download, The Rocky Mountain Ratmen and the Staff of Geb, a Krendel adventure.

One of the best parts of releasing Krendel as free has been people telling me about their own free and low cost games. This selection expanded with Dave Chapman's RPGaDAY in August, where people share their thoughts and favorites with respect to RPGs, a new theme each day. I wanted to take a moment to talk about some of the games that I have had a chance to read over.

A friend recently put this question to me: "So you're telling me you've gone to a land with Tolkien-writing as the norm, large networks of cave cities, recent warrior queens of legend, and mythic shape-shifting knights? Are you sure you're still on the same planet?" Well, I get to add to that list awesome caves, cliff bees, and dinosaur footprints.

I wanted to take a moment to discuss how you can change the way skills work in Krendel, which also means talking about how they work. Essentially there are four degrees of complication in Krendel, and, as written, it assumes that you will use two of them, but it also tells you how to easily change things around to use any of them you want.