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Saturday, 6 July 2024
The flavour is free - looking past genre boxes with Fellowship
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Years back our group found Fellowship , the best PbtA game we've played before or since. We played it a bunch and had a lot of fun with...
Wednesday, 3 April 2024
Flipping the narration on high-powered characters - Broken Worlds, Exalted vs World of Darkness and Batman
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In RPGs players usually narrate what their character does and the GM narrates the world, the obstacles they face and how the NPCs act. But w...
Thursday, 28 March 2024
Adjudicating different PCs differently - a look at Sidereals
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In pretty much every RPG and beyond you want to treat everyone fairly. Everyone has to follow the same rules, the same judgements should app...
Wednesday, 6 December 2023
State your intentions clearly - a look at in-universe laws in TTRPGs
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Many RPGs out there as part of their worldbuilding establish in-universe rules and laws the player characters ought to obide by. But since t...
Friday, 17 November 2023
EvWoD: Friendly Neighbourhood Exalts Actual Play Review
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I’ve spent the last few years listening through a few of the Exalted RPG Podcasts / Actual Plays and I figured I’d share my thoughts on them...
Tuesday, 14 November 2023
Starting backstory bonuses - solving character buy-in
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Sometimes RPG groups have a problem with getting the right kind of characters together for an adventure. Whether it's people wanting to ...
Tuesday, 27 June 2023
Some thoughts on running political intrigues in TTRPGs - a look at Storms of Yizhao
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Recently I ran a political intrigue / investigation adventure called The Storms of Yizhao for a few groups. It has a few neat approaches to...
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