Showing posts with label Fellowship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fellowship. Show all posts
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...
Saturday, 11 December 2021

Play with a purpose - filler content in streams and actual plays, looking at RPG Blender

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Recently I've been watching some RPG Blender  actual play of Exalted 3E  and I've noticed something about a few episodes or scenes -...
Friday, 18 June 2021

Failures and fatalities - why Dungeons & Dragons is awful for Actual Plays, looking at Dimension 20

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Recently, I've watched Dimension 20 's Fantasy High Season 1 , and the show's first two episodes really encapsulate why Dungeons...
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Friday, 21 May 2021

Too many NPCs - the importance scale

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A lot of players love getting attached to random NPCs, all of your Boblin the Goblins. Some games encourage that friend recruiting loop. How...
Tuesday, 23 March 2021

Crown of Thunders and incorporating player ideas into the game

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RPGs are an inherently collaborative medium. Often the GM will be put in the position of the authority to shape the world and direct how it ...
Monday, 1 March 2021

Burglars attract locked doors - how character builds shape the game

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Burglars want to burgle My group and I have been playing some Fellowship recently. One of our characters was the Heir, a noble face of the...
Saturday, 27 February 2021

The velvet rope of perceived limits in RPG sessions

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Recently in our Star Wars Fellowship game we had a session filled with some roleplay encounters. We talked with a clone trooper conspiracy ...
Tuesday, 29 September 2020

Power Inflation in RPGs

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For a few years my group had some fun playing a few games  of  Godbound , a demigod OSR RPG. It was a game letting you play level 20 D&...
Saturday, 30 November 2019

Manage your game's mental load

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A concept I don't see discussed often when it comes to RPGs is that of a "mental load". To put it simply, there is a limit to...