Category Archives: Backgrounds

Dragon Hack: Revised playtest is here!

Sound the trumpets! The revised playtest document for what will become Dragon Hack 2.0 is finally complete and available right here. Please do download and take a spin through the document and tell me what you think. More importantly, give … Continue reading

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Dragon Hack: Revised Playtest Coming Soon

Hey everyone, this is just a quick post to let readers know that I have not fallen off the face of the planet. Real-life stuff, including family issues and work, have kept me from being as active on the site … Continue reading

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Dragon Hack Revision Part 1: The results are in and more polls

OK, the results have been pouring in (well not really, but 30+ votes on each poll is a lot more than I got on my first poll experiment on the site), and it looks like most readers’ picks for what’s … Continue reading

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A New Direction for Dragon Hack?

Hello all Dragon Hack fans, I wanted to put up a quick post to explore an idea I’ve been toying with that would streamline the Dragon Hack system and bring it more in line with existing Dragon Age material. As … Continue reading

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Character Traits in Action: The Monk (Acrobat)

Back so soon with another more fully developed class background entry, this time the patient and disciplined monk. I’m still fleshing out some of the ideas for bending Monk abilities from Pathfinder into the AGE system, so I’m open to … Continue reading

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A Fistful of Rage, or Character Traits in Action: The Barbarian

I’m a big tease, I know. After weeks and months of promising to return to posts covering the continued advancement of the class background traits, here we are finally with a look at the fearsome barbarian. You’ll no doubt notice … Continue reading

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Midgard and Dragon Age: A match made in adventure

Recently, I had a conversation with a fellow Dragon Age RPG player on Twitter and the topic turned to the Midgard project by Open Design and how much was still being done there to create a new campaign world compatible … Continue reading

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Putting it all together: Temerell SenshanĂ©, Keeper of the Roanwood Forest

After playing around with more of the race and class system, I’ve come to the conclusion that while I’m not overly concerned with power creep because of the nature of adding a high-fantasy race and class paradigm to the otherwise … Continue reading

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Character traits in action: The Ranger

Hello my neglected little blog. I’ve missed you, and I’m sure all three of the people who have stumbled upon this little corner of the interwebs have missed any sense of a regularly timed posting schedule. Truth be told, as … Continue reading

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Putting it all together: Volthrok, free cantons paladin.

The last couple of posts have sketched out some ideas about how a system of race and class traits can be added to the Dragon Age RPG in order to recreate the familiar race and class paradigm of earlier Dungeons … Continue reading

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