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Showing posts with label choices. 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...
Monday, 16 August 2021

RPG betrayals and the meta game of friendship - the finale of the Crown of Candy

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Recently, I've been watching some Dimension 20 's Crown of Candy series, which was a somewhat ruthless game reminiscent of Game of ...
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, 15 March 2021

Sidereals, Fate, gods and prophecies - morality of a puppet

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Recently, I was playing a character in Exalted vs World of Darkness  that was a Sidereal, a troubleshooter of Fate. Basically, his heroic jo...
Sunday, 15 November 2020

Problems with character Cults in RPGs

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In our group , we enjoy playing a good deal of demigod games with character Cults, ranging from Exalted ( 1 , 2 ), through Godbound ( 1 , ...
Saturday, 10 October 2020

"What are you willing to sacrifice?" A hollow question... - Planning RPG stories

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Last year I've watched through Exaltwitch , an Exalted actual play (you can read my review of it here ). One of the big plot points of t...
Saturday, 3 October 2020

Homunculus characters, stat readjustment and character change in RPGs

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My group and I  play a lot of games with interesting mechanics. Lately, we've been trying Cortex , a modular RPG system where you can ta...
Saturday, 4 July 2020

Gaming and solving the fun out of RPG systems

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Over the last few years my group and I  have played a number of systems that had mechanics you could game to get XP or other advantages, or ...
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Monday, 20 January 2020

What do you do? What do you want to accomplish? Why do you do it? Three core questions for PC actions

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A good part of any RPG session revolves around character actions, asking questions like "a goblin jumps out of a bush with a sword, wha...
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 ...
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...