Showing posts with label mechanics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mechanics. 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...
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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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 ...
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, 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...
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&...
Friday, 18 September 2020

Problem of Crafting solving every problem

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Technology and the industrial revolution have been an unprecedented boon to the global standard of living. With them, we escaped the Malthus...
Wednesday, 8 July 2020

Rainbow shields, damage of the gaps, prescribed and ad lib skills

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In a lot of RPGs, players have skills, stats or whatever you want to call them that are well defined. Things like Medicine, Nature, Insight,...