Monday, 27 May 2019

Make every roll impactful

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Efficiency in a tabletop system is a nice thing to have. The more systems I try with my group , the more I'm bothered by rolls that don...
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, 16 May 2019

Pointless labour multipliers and time as a resource

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My group and I have played a lot of Godbound in the past , and I've always saw one Gift standing out as at the same time particularly us...
Wednesday, 17 April 2019

Flat shared XP and Geist's Beats per minute

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In the past we have discussed a few topics related to what I'd like to bring up today - how Chronicles of Darkness improved the game exp...
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Monday, 8 April 2019

Taste of things to come - Miracles and Improvised Spells

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A few times I've found myself in an RPG saying "man, that one power I didn't take could be really useful in this narrow situat...
Monday, 1 April 2019

The four voices of RPG writing

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When it comes to RPG books, there appear to be four distinct styles to the writing, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. It's...
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Monday, 25 March 2019

Sometimes, the little things make a large difference

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I've been a fan of the White Wolf's Vampire line of books for a long while now. I got started with the Vampire the Masquerade Revise...