Questing for Tabletop Adventure Games
The undead are alive. (Current players, look away, thx). This is an open strategy game, cousin to the role-playing game. The War in Crow's Foot - A Blades in the Dark Open Strategy Game, is now on itch.io! These PDFs have the rules of the game and what the players need to know as well … Continue reading The War in Crow’s Foot
The Paladin chasing the Mark through to Abaddon. Talking more of open strategy games. Why? Because currently, why living in a new place, this is my method of gaming with folks I've said goodbye to. So, I've just been dreaming these things up to the point where I got a Blades in the Dark OSG … Continue reading Landover Report, Open Strategy Game Example
Last time we talked open strategy games. Read this if you haven't to get an idea of what you're getting into. In the spirit of "play worlds, not rules," here's an idea for your next open strategy game. Doskvol. The world of John Harper's Blades in the Dark. Everyone has a stinkin' copy. Six players … Continue reading Open Strategy Game: Blades in the Dark (and third party interaction)
Chris McDowall has talked about matrix games, making his own space-y version. I've talked about them and made my own based on a novel series I enjoyed when I was even younger. Chris and I talked about dubbing them "open strategy games" to avoid confusion about that 1999 movie and explaining what a matrix actually … Continue reading Open Strategy Games – Guiding Principles
<Now called Open Strategy Games.> When I picked up the Matrix Games Handbook, there was one article that REALLY stood out as for the "how the heck to run these things." And then someone posted that same article on Discord for all to see. Read that one if you want to design or run your … Continue reading More matrix gaming resources and ideas
If I keep posting at this rate, I'm gonna have to put up some actual plays or session reports, haha. Dragonslayer Adventures can be run with a single d6 and only needs one player to roll. All of my near-diceless ventures have veered this way. D6 Universal goes this way. When I started reading about … Continue reading Convergent Dice-Thoughts
<Once called Matrix games> Chris McDowall is running a game called Sunrise Expansion. See what the heck an Open Strategy/Matrix game is right here. It's like Free Kriegsspiel Revolution and wargames and LARPing and play-by-post had a baby... Anyway, I read up on what he was doing and took a stab at the concept in … Continue reading Landover, An Open Strategy Game
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