Questing for Tabletop Adventure Games
Gaming can be enhanced by physical products. We all know this even before we've backed our 60th kickstarter. Here are a couple smaller grabs on Amazon I've found flavorful recently: 1. Cairn I play Cairn. Did plenty of it last December and gifted copies to over twenty folks. I've also cannibalized the character sheet by … Continue reading Four Recent Dungeoneering Amazon Purchases
Shipwright Thinking about CosmicOrrery's post about diceless violence and the reference to this post about combat maneuvers. Skorne's no to-hit rolls or even damage rolls is something I didn't realize all the implications or applications of when I wrote it. Such is design released to a larger world, I suppose... This is really leading to … Continue reading Damage to dilemma, the diceless way
A pattern: Neverland. Public domain adventure story, Peter Pan. Green cover. Oz. Public domain adventure story, Wizard of Oz. Blue cover. My prediction: The next book in this series is Wonderland. Public domain adventure story, Alice in Wonderland. Red cover. Red-gardless, buy these and use them at your table. They're fantastic. I've run Neverland for … Continue reading Andrew Kolb Prediction
Let's get to it: My name's Thomas and I will soon be running Skorne on Roll20 as theater of the mind. Very soon in fact: in three days! While I am excited to run combat without dice rolls, I am wondering how combat maneuvers will work and I am hoping that you can give me … Continue reading Ask the Dragonslayer #3: Diceless Maneuvers in Skorne
"Renegade Edgelord" is my vanity license plate. Skorne, upon both release and remaster, did not include a character sheet. Something it shares in common with other ultralight/FKR games. That has changed. From the itch page: KILLER FEATURES Helper text below each section to minimize book flipping while creating a new Renegade. HIT COUNTER on the … Continue reading Skorne Character Record Sheet
1998, no other. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6yYi16iuYY This mood music slaps. This heroine is my all-time favorite. She's passionate, loyal, and clever. For her excellent problem-solving skills and aspirational character, I crown her queen of the OSR. If you need a plot refresher: There are five reasons I dub Mulan thus: 1: Choosing one, not chosen one The … Continue reading Mulan, OSR Queen
Shipwright. Title is a Sabaton reference. For Adventure Hour!, Adventure World, Skorne, and other systems with fewer dice: When you're Taken Out of the action or at zero hits, make a death save. Roll 2d6, minus one for every time you’ve rolled a death save up to now: On 10+ you rally with heroic effort … Continue reading Until Your Last Dying Breath
A. Shipwright TetraLlama asked "Could you share your d366 list of movies? What are your top 5 that you get the most inspiration and use out of?" Well, I hadn't typed that list up... BEFORE NOW. Here is my table of media influences. So, it's not just movies, but shows and books and what have … Continue reading Appendix N – d666 Media Influences
Got the Mausritter boxed set from Games Omnivorous. It was so good I ordered the adventure boxed set too. Reading some of Chris McDowall's Mythic/Primeval Bastionland playtest inspired a greater reliance on hexcrawling and procedural systems (something none of us can keep our mouths shut about around here it seems). Anyway, here are some changes … Continue reading Mausritter Procedure House Rules
As Space Bounty Blues is to Cowboy Bebop, this (untitled) game would be to Scooby-Doo. It's GMless PbtA. Start with the end in mind: I thought of the final move first. When you unmask the monster, the gang makes one guess who the culprit is and roll + Clues.On a 10+, you got it right! … Continue reading Scooby-Doo: Unmasking the Culprit
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