Tuesday, 30 July 2019

A story of gaming transhumanism in SWN

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Awhile back I heard an interesting story in one of the Discords I frequent. One of the GMs ran a campaign of Stars Without Number Revised Ed...
Tuesday, 16 July 2019

Don't punish players for defining their relationships - implications of True Friend

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One night before playing with our group , the GM and I had a discussion about Vampire the Requiem that made its way onto discussing the True...
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Monday, 8 July 2019

The Goblin Brain in RPGs

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Every now and then, each tabletop RPG group will come up with a solution to an issue so bizarre and appalling that will leave the GM gobsmac...
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Monday, 1 July 2019

Unstable combat systems - taking wargaming out of RPGs

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As everyone knows, D&D has roots in wargaming . Combat is an important part of D&D as well as many other RPGs. However, after playin...
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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...