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Cinemechanix Design Journal: (Sorta) Finished Draft
This week’s blog is going to be short, because I’ve been busy this week. I posted a partial draft of the rules (mostly just the players/rules section) to the playtest group during the last week of January, and a couple of people have run some games using that draft. My goal was to get the…
Cinemechanix: Margins, Effects, and Raises
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The Gambler
The gambler is a character who makes a living (or tries to) by wagering on contests of skill or chance. Most professional gamblers prefer games that rely on personal skill, such as pool or poker, but a few play games of pure chance (such as slot machines) or bet on the outcomes of events…
Campaign Design Walk-Through 1: Premise
Since the whole idea behind Cinemechanix is that you use the core rules to create the kind of game you want to play, it seems like it might be a good idea to go through a sample campaign design. I keep going back and forth on whether I want to continue the Sample of Play…
Classic D&D Monsters, According to AI
Since I’ve got a new computer, I’ve been playing with some new AI image generation software. A couple of weeks ago, I decided to see how it did with descriptions of some classic D&D monsters, so I grabbed my first edition Monster Manual and fed descriptions from the book into the AI. A few notes:…
The Road to QAGS, part 6
We’re at part 6 and don’t even have a book yet, so I’m going to bullet point through some things to keep this from being an 4 million part article. So, after doing Ukon: There was some kind of issue with the printing. I don’t really remember the details, but we ended up with a…
Time
This one took a while because I didn’t get it done in one sitting and it’s incredibly boring, which made it really hard to pick back up. Next up is the actual “Doing Stuff” section, which should be more entertaining. The plan is to do a chapter for each of the 5 tropes: Brains: Knowledge,…
The Everyman
The most reluctant of reluctant heroes, the everyman does not particularly crave adventure and excitement. He just wants to live his live and has no particular need to prove himself or engage in thrilling heroics. The everyman steps into the role of the hero because nobody else can or will and in many cases…