Tuesday, 29 May 2018

Punch me in the face for XP - the failure of CoD beats system

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Chronicles of Darkness  is a pretty great series of games. It fixed a lot of things that were wrong with the oWoD and nWoD series and added...
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Saturday, 5 May 2018

When does PVP work in RPGs?

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Player vs player conflicts can be an important aspect of role playing games. They can be an epic end of a story, or just as likely be the br...
Thursday, 8 March 2018

The mixed bag that is CoD Beast

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I'm a long time World of Darkness fan. I used to mostly play Vampire the Masquarade and Vampire the Requiem, but recently my group decid...
Wednesday, 7 March 2018

Changing the world - Dominion or XP?

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My group and I have played a lot of Godbound  since its Kickstarter. I've really enjoyed a lot of its mechanics, but my view on some of...
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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