Category: Game Design

Lumpley, via the Forge I’ve got a theory. There’s Setting, System, Character, Situation and Color, right? I think that you

Okay. Once upon a time (about six months ago), I stumbled on some pretty good games via reviews on RPG.net

…and… Hmm. I think I’m going to go a bit longer, despite someone handing me (another) nice short definition for

“It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.” — Dame Rose Macaulay Okay, so

Green Ronin has the publishing green-light to revise and release Warhammer FRPG (my favorite ‘blood and rust’ game of all

Intuitor Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics Saying that shards of broken glass are razor sharp is an understatement. A shattered window

Population: One: Monday Mashup #37: Full Metal Jacket Oh, I could do something here with Sorcerer, tying everyone’s kickers into

Not just Batman, actually, in fact… every single character that can be referenced for this stereotype/archetype is also a Big

Roleplaying Theory, Hardcore: Seriously. How many times have you created a character who was far cooler in your head than

I wanna do Evangelion/Sorcerer.

A conversation on the Forge regarding how or when the idea of Player Authorship crept into your style of play.

So in sketching out the Shannon character for this post, I became aware of a really cool ‘dark-side/light-side’ thing going

Ron Edwards is working on a final, hard-copy version of Trollbabe, trying to get it done in time for GenCon.

There’s this thing in gaming that really doesn’t work: adding new optional things to a system that the players are

“Next campaign, I’m not going to give a bonus to hit for coming up with interesting descriptions in combat: I’m

There’s a game I’d like to write up in full that I never will. Two reasons: One is simply that

Donjon (site), Donjon (review), Donjon example characters — player-driven dungeon crawling — it seems as though this could be either

Perverse Access Memory: WISH 85: Character Inspirations What inspires you to create characters? Do you have partially-developed characters in mind

My Life with Master: a must-play as far as I’m concerned.

One of those fantasy games that (like HeroQuest) I plan to try out with my DnD group after they wrap

First off, there’s a good review of InSpectres, here. Now, a summary:

Next up, let’s take a look at a fantasy system: HeroQuest. First, a particularly good and useful review can be

So I’ve got a bunch of games laying around — stuff I want to run, to try out… whatever. I

Here’s an observation, neither novel nor groundbreaking. d20 in it’s current incarnation will never be a good system for non-dungeon

I’ve often said there’s practically no difference between the basic PC conflict setups for Amber and Vampire (whether that’s a

The Wednesday Weird is a writing exercise where each week a topic will be posted and participants will write about

Reading one of the ‘Actual Play’ entries on the Forge left me a bit… confused. Here’s an excerpt: We did

The 20′ By 20′ Room: Definitive Narrativism links to essays on the Forge (a rpg forum I won’t bother to