Sunday, 25 February 2018

Player agency over dice randomness

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As I explained last time , I'm a mechanically-focused gamer. I enjoy engaging with various game systems to figure out in what ways they ...
Friday, 23 February 2018

Scifi media as a blueprint for scifi elements in your game

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Recently, my group started playing a game of Stars Without Number . The setting of that game is very light on the backstory and the sector ...
Sunday, 11 February 2018

The Doylist choices in role play games

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In the culmination of  a recent game of Stars Without Number  an interesting trope sneaked up on us. We were fighting the cartoonish villai...
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Sunday, 28 January 2018

Character competency, game feel and dice randomness

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In the recent years I've explored a number of systems with my group . We've played some games with Godbound, Chronicles of Darkness,...
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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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Tuesday, 16 January 2018

Godbound - "grow into your problems" Cult

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When it comes to roleplaying games, I enjoy engaging with the various systems presented in the book and seeing how they can be broken or wha...
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Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Facilitating PC's downtime activities

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Over a year ago my group and I were in the middle of playing a large, sprawling game of Exalted . As it is with such large games, there is a...