Questing for Tabletop Adventure Games
Space samurai. Grab your stopwatches! Here's where we started: The closest to 10″ flat without going under wins the duel.If one combatant is under 10″ while the other is over, the latter wins the duel.If both combatants are under 10″ then whoever is lower wins the duel. It's a game about player skill. Some misunderstood … Continue reading Refining the Stopwatch and More
Labyrinth has proven to me that you a scene that impacts the end of the adventure and increases the stakes. In that game, you're given 13 hours. Fail a puzzle or challenge in a scene? Lose an hour. Waste time or wait too long? Lose an hour. Party gets incapacitated? Lose an hour. If you … Continue reading Scene-based Adventure Structure and The Hobbit
Overview Bought this because Ben Milton worked on it. I'm a simple man. Ran it for my brother, mother, and father whilst in Amish country, hence the absence. None of us have seen Labyrinth, though I likely will after this at some point. Brother was a goblin, dad a Firey, mom a human. We played … Continue reading A-Maze Us with a Maze (Labyrinth Review)
The inventory system of Dragonslayer Adventures in inspired by Knave, Cairn, and this post about ItO. Making a change. Want to catalogue my reasons why. Before: Optional Rule: Inventory. A PC may only carry 8 items on their person as part of their backpack. Smaller items may be grouped and count as one item. Current … Continue reading Dragonslayer Adventures: Inventory
Norbert wrote this here about how to do 2d6 opposed in combat, like Middle-Earth Adventures and Adventure Hour! and still have armor give a chance to deflect a blow rather than just add more hits. This kind of armor increase tension for players, not knowing exactly how many hits they or the enemy can take. … Continue reading FKR Armor: Increasing the tension
Thanks to Necropraxis on Chris McDowall's Bastionland podcast for convincing me to play this one. I have sunk over 40 hours into this game, which for me, is a lot to put into any video game RPG. I tire easily. But Dark Souls is different. It's an RPG where you don't win by default. Victory … Continue reading Dark Souls Life Lessons
Treasure-seeking monster... But not a player, of course. The overlap between these Playing with Youngers posts and similar-age gaming has always been apparent to me, but many times the lessons of better design reveal themselves to me when running games for kids versus adults. For my Outschool DND adventures, I created a desert-theme Perilous Pyramid … Continue reading Playing with Youngers: Expensive Buys
Despite having... Middle-Earth Role-PlayingTolkien QuestMiddle-Earth QuestThe Lord of the Rings Roleplaying GameThe One Ring Roleplaying GameAdventures in Middle-Earth ...I still prefer the less weight-y games. That said, all of the above games contain interesting and inspirational content within. Anyway, this alternate character creation system for Middle-Earth Adventures smashes The One Ring (first edition) and Adventures … Continue reading Middle-Earth Adventures: Alt. Character Generation
Potion of Sandform turns one into a Sandman-esque character Playing Neverland. Lost Boys don't trust the party. They're too old to be Lost Boys... But they don't seem like pirates... Fine. "We'll play a couple of games to see if you're trustworthy. If you win, we'll help you. If you lose, you're pirates." You know, … Continue reading Clever Hobbitses: Hide n’ Seek
Person in Electric Bastionland??? It's seven. Plus or minus two. Where are my psychology people at? Yeah, that's the optimized number of things you can hold in your head at one time. Why would you want to hold the layout of a dungeon in your and your players' heads? If you either don't have the … Continue reading Optimum number of rooms for a dungeon?
