Showing posts with label character building. Show all posts
Showing posts with label character building. Show all posts
Wednesday, 23 March 2022

Spend XP to cure cancer and be a good person - expensive fluff charms in EvWoD

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Our group  tends to play big games like Godbound or Exalted  where the players get to shape the world to their whims and even when we'r...
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&...
Monday, 2 December 2019

Agree on your game's vision before you start playing

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Over the years, my group has learned that it's important to nail one thing down before a game starts - its vision, an agreed vision of ...
Thursday, 7 November 2019

The Air-Breathing Mermaid Problem

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Every now and then when playing RPGs you stumble upon a mechanic that solves a problem you didn't know you had. This situation is called...
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Tuesday, 16 July 2019

Don't punish players for defining their relationships - implications of True Friend

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One night before playing with our group , the GM and I had a discussion about Vampire the Requiem that made its way onto discussing the True...
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Monday, 20 May 2019

Asymmetric character complexity - cardboard cutout NPC stats

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A lot of RPGs use the same complexity when describing NPC stats as they do PC stats. It's understandable - you spend a lot of time devel...
Thursday, 18 January 2018

How Chronicles of Darkness almost fixed minmaxing

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The various World of Darkness games have a long history in the RPG community. The games have been around since 1991 and always had a strong...
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