Microlite20
Posted by Joshua on Feb 17, 2009
I don’t know much about this, except that it seems generally well-regarded, and it might satisfy Russell as a 3e-like system without all the cruft. I’ve read the Microlite74 rules, which take this and trim it down still further to make it more like a 0e retro-clone, and they seem pretty solid, though you still need a copy of some version of the SRD, 3e or the like for things like equipment lists and magic items.
Microlite20 | The smallest thing in d20 gaming
Microlite20 is a minimalist role-playing game designed to be usable with the majority of d20 supplements, rules and adventures with little or no advance preparation. The rules for character generation, combat, magic and level advancement take up a single sheet of paper, meaning it is perfect for introducing role-playing to new players, gaming one-shot adventures or tailoring into your own game system. Downloads PDF editions of the rules, supplements, adventures, including pocketbook editions.
Scribefire
Posted by Joshua on Feb 17, 2009
While I’m on the topic of useful software for RPGS (though more for RPG bloggers than GMs and players), I find Scribefire really useful. It’s a Firefox plugin that lets you quickly highlight something on a web page or blog post and write and publish a blog post to your own blog quoting it. I used to use Diigo for that, but it’s too many extra steps. (Diigo is a web service that lets you highlight and annotate other people’s web-pages in a way that persists for you when you return to them, and it’s really quite neat as a research tool–but overkill for just posting in response to something you just read, and you have to delete a bunch of the boilerplate it inserts every time.)
There’s a bunch of other functionality in Scribefire (like when you are actually looking at your blog’s homepage it gives you a toolbar to quickly write posts, upload images, etc.) that I haven’t really explored, but for the basic function of swooping a highlight on somebody’s post, composing a reply and publishing it I couldn’t be more satisfied.
RPG Tools: A PDF Reader
Posted by Joshua on Feb 17, 2009
Since so many RPG products now come in the form of a PDF, wouldn’t it be nice to have a PDF reader that wasn’t a pig? PDF X-Change Viewer is a free Windows app that is lightning fast compared to Adobe’s reader. The Savage Worlds Explorer’s Edition PDF opens nearly instantly and pages refresh in a flash. Not only that, but you can annotate it, so the House Rules I was talking about earlier are now recorded in my copy of the PDF. When you install it by default it makes itself the system PDF reader and replaces the Firefox plugin; I really appreciate how much faster it loads a PDF there. There’s also a portable version, suitable for carrying around and running from a USB flash drive.
PDF Viewer – Software To Open A PDF File – PDF Editing Software
Those wishing to view PDF files on their Windows PC’s now have a choice when it comes to Viewing PDF files – the PDF-XChange Viewer is smaller, faster and more feature rich than the Adobe Reader which has until now been the Reader of choice for PDF files – we think that’s about to change !
