Diary of a Failed Game Designer

Just boosting the signal of an interesting product. Seven years of Fantasy Weather  Volume 1 Medieval England (by Written Oakes Spalding) has been bouncing around my G+ and social media Feed this week.  The  pitch from Drive through is as follows: Each twelve-hour day or evening entry includes information on temperature (in Celcius and Fahrenheit) weather events - fog, thunderstorm, blizzard, etc. - amount of rainfall/snowfall, occurrence or possibility of lightning, wind speed, wind direction, phases of the moon, effect on movement rates and chance of getting lost. It's an almanac for the fantasy gamer. No more annoying die rolling or consulting an app or online program to generate a random or patternless result. With FANTASY WEATHER you can see all of it at a glance This is one of those things I never knew I needed. An Idea which out of the blue that makes me think, "Damn, I wish I thought of that." As such I wanted to  to pass it along, with a thumbs up. Furthermo...

As per the title this is going to be a quick Review of "Dungeon Grappling" by  Douglas Cole. The Preamble: This is an unsolicited review. I did not receive a review copy, nor did I request one. I don't know Mr. Cole beyond our exchanges on G+ and few e-mails regarding role playing games. Douglas Cole's Blog, Gaming Ballistic is here. His Website , is Here. The  Document started as a successful Kickstarter campaign the  description of which is still available here . Here is the  link where you can buy "Dungeon Grappling." Available in soft cover print version and PDF (or a bundle of both).  I bought the PDF so I can't speak to the physical quality of the soft cover print. I invite Douglass Cole, or anyone else to jump into the comments section  to correct any mistakes I make in the following review. OK. That covers all the prelim stuff right?  TLDR Version: I'm not a reviewer. I don't usually do reviews, and when I have they have been pretty br...