Questing for Tabletop Adventure Games
Playing (LOTS of)Dark Souls and backing Into the Wyrd and Wild (19 days to go) makes me want to run a dark, wyrd, forested game. Having three issues of Wormskin also nurtures this... I've meditated on something like this before... What system? Why, Cairn, of course. Go grab this excellent (free!) game if you have … Continue reading Cairn Spark Tables for Forest Adventures
This post I read talked about Into the Odd's system of Critical Damage being very similar to that of Left 4 Dead. It's a good post. And it totally makes sense. But that got me thinking. Of a better game. That looks like this. When you take Critical Damage. Taking Critical Damage. It's near and … Continue reading Into the Odd is more than Left 4 Dead
Shipwright. Red Ink Adventures has been talked about a handful of times on Discord recently. I was also scrolling through my random "shower thoughts" list of ideas and this one fit rather well. A partnership welded in conceptual proximity by yours truly. This is how the rules read, with the changes in bold: AttackingAfter all … Continue reading Red Ink Adventures: Alt. Damage
Guess this counts for Dolmenwood too. Have yet to read/play... Been playing more Darkest Dungeon (my way, of course). Sudden urge to run it as an RPG (as with most things I watch or play). Looked for stress mechanics for Into the Odd (not very far, I'll admit). Stumbled back upon Cairn (lots of cool … Continue reading Stress for Wooded Adventures (ItO, Cairn, Into the Wyrd and Wild)
DICE FROM HEAVEN. Shipwright. I’m weird about dice. I made a d366 table of spells JUST so I could have d6s only, no d100. I go the extra mile. Sometimes that extra mile is a circle, no real movement, just motion. This is no sane person problem, I recognize. In my view, there are only … Continue reading Dice Oddities: Generating Stats
I asked around on the Electric Bastionland Discord Server for classic fantasy character packages for Into the Odd. Chris has written about how the implied industrial setting of ItO is intentional, but when I’m going for more Dark Souls than Bloodborne, I’m not a big fan of guns in the game (though I allow for … Continue reading Classic Fantasy Starting Packages for Into the Odd
If finding treasure is the game, reward that. If brewing potions is the game, reward that. If summoning spooky pillars of purple smoke is the game, be careful. A. Shipwright. On the post about diegetic advancement triggers, I got a comment: Amazing stuff. What do you think would be cool advancement triggers for campaigns inspired … Continue reading Diegetic Advancement Triggers to Emulate a Genre
A. Shipwright. Last time we talked about diegetic advancement in games. That is, when you do something, your character Advances. It works well for asynchronous play in play-by-posts because triggers are dependent on the PCs actions, not when the end of a session occurs. We talked about what the Advance system would look like for … Continue reading Diegetic Advancement Triggers
Shipwright Mausritter is an excellent little game. Totally free, excellent layout. It's simple AND has great GM tools. That's the best combo I can think of. You have no excuse to not pick this up. I've talked about it before and I think it'd be fun to run as a play-by-post. It uses the Into … Continue reading Advancement and Continuous Play
I love this. By A. Shipwright. Roll Willpower, not Charisma, when using magic.Me, five minutes ago I wrote that. Then someone mentioned a method of magic I had forgotten: summoning. Think of it like this: instead of casting spells in a fire-and-forget Vancian fashion, a "spell/spell slot" allows you to reach through the void to … Continue reading Spirit, I Choose You!
