Fishmonger Rebellion
I didn’t set out to write 3000 words about a tax revolt that ended with a rain of fish, but that’s what happened. Read at world Anvil Facebook Twitter Reddit Tumblr Email
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Rules Mastery Vs. Rules Wankery
Different kinds of games reward different abilities. Pictionary rewards players’ ability to draw recognizable clues and to guess the right answer from the clues other people draw. Poker rewards understanding the likelihood of winning with a particular hand, strategic betting, and bluffing. Candyland rewards the player with the best luck. I’ve talked before about the…
What’s The Matter With QAGS?
I just wrote a 12-part series providing background for how we got from QAGS 1st Edition to QAGS 2nd Edition and why it’s taken us over 20 years to get around to QAGS 3E. Today, I’m going to go into detail about why I feel like QAGS needs a new edition. Some of the problems…
Spooktober 2022: 31 Things You May Encounter in the City of Ten Thousand Daggers
World Anvil’s Spooktober is an event where you get a nifty badge for your profile if you write short entries about at least 13 prompts from a list of 31 options. I decided to tackle all 31 prompts to create a list/random table of 31 Things You May Encounter in the City of Ten Thousand…
Hero Factor
Here’s the working Hero Factor chart/power levels for the dice pool system. Since NPCs don’t roll, there’s no need to worry about mooks/bystanders, cosmic beings, gods, or others that fall outside of the PC range. View at World Anvil Facebook Twitter Reddit Tumblr Email
Top 5 Ways To Get The PCs Involved
I’ve mentioned numerous times that my usual method of planning for a game involves deciding what conflicts are going on in the world and then trying to figure out ways to get the characters involved in those conflicts. I haven’t really gone into the “get the players involved” part of the equation, so I’m going…
Cinemechanix Design Journal: Acclaim
As I’ve mentioned a few times, the Cinemechanix version of Yum Yums is a mechanic called Acclaim. The basic idea is the same: players get bennies for adding to the game and can use them to get bonuses to rolls or to subtly alter the story in their favor, but the details are a little…
Random Nation Builder
I wrote a script to generate a group of traits that give you a good starting point for a nation, tribe, culture, planet, or whatever. I’d planned to clean up the lists it grabs from and provide a little commentary here, but my day started with waking up late and went downhill from there, so…
D&D 5E Review Part 13: Combat
An elf swings his delicate bejewelled sword, puncturing a disbelieving dwarf’s heart with a graceful flourish. A paladin screams “Die Infidel Scum” as he murders orcish children for the glory of his bloodthirsty sun god. A bard inspires his companions with an ancient battle song, masturbating frantically the entire time. A reviewer can’t take much…