Listening to a podcast in which their learning Pathfinder and thinking about how to level these characters up. So Pathfinder has no “dead levels” – every level gives the character something new. I really like that idea; playing DnD right now, and not getting a reward when I level is sort of disappointing. I crave […]
As much as I love my big bag of a dice, I think I’d prefer this game to use fewer dice and less types. D6s are by far the easiest dice to get a hold of, so my inclination is to base the rolls around those. If there are fewer dice on the table, it […]
Again, I don’t want to limit the GM by being too specific in the faction descriptions. Here are some starting points for gang factions. I’m going to write this all in the presen tense, just for coherency. War Boys The largest of the organized gangs are the War Boys. Immortan Joe rules those in the […]
I want to give the GM something to work with without locking the GM or players into specifics. Hopefully this is an ok start. Although recognized as a matriarchal tribe, there are men in the Vuvalini clan, so you can make male-identifying characters. However, the leaders are women. In fact, most of the members are […]
A couple of weeks ago I played a one-shot Apocalypse World game set in the Mad Max universe. Our GM is a big fan of Fury Road – awesome – and the plot and characters were from that movie. It was my first time playing Apocalypse World. There was something of a learning curve, but all games have that, […]
So I may be starting another DnD game, and working through character stats got me thinking about how to have players’ stats affect roll outcomes in this game. In DnD, a character has points within a stat and once they hit a threshold, they get a modifying point which they then add onto their rolls. This […]
As always, this is a rough draft! Although now a nomadic tribe, the Vuvalini were once an established colony who farmed around a desert oasis. This “Green Place” eventually succumbed to spreading pollution, and a series of raids left the community weakened. Break down into 3(?) time periods: Pre-pollution/upheaval Nomadic tribe Post-Revolution
We haven’t had much time to work on this – jobs are insane, weekends go by too fast – but we did continue to mull over this idea of “feralness,” or how to have the characters be quantifiably affected by the world. So the Dude really likes the concept of “luck.” The Dragon Age RPG […]
So the husband and I were discussing a topic that’s probably pretty important: what is the point of the game? I argued that the mechanics of the game depend on its purpose, and until we figure out that foundation, we can’t build anything else. As far as pen and paper RPGs go, as I’ve […]
How do you quantify suffering? I’ve played Call of Cthulhu and I really like the way that insanity is tracked. And right now I’m in the middle of Fallout 4, which uses radiation to limit a character’s health. Both systems use these “negative stats” (for lack of a better term) to attempt to quantify the […]
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