Monday, 26 August 2019

Violence is always an option - a look at player interactions

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Sometimes when you play a tabletop RPG, your character may want another character to do or not do something they are dead set on. How do you...
Monday, 19 August 2019

Is Exalted with a different system still Exalted?

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Our RPG group  plays a lot of Exalted . We have recorded over 120 episodes of our podcast on Exalted , many of which were 4+ hours long. Tha...
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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...