Books and movies often use time spent traveling to help establish the characters and relationships between them, but it’s sometimes hard to model this in a game, especially if your players aren’t used to un-prompted role-playing. Sometimes, giving them something that looks a little more like a traditional RPG “encounter” can help. Roll on…
Like Qerth, most fantasy game worlds are full of dungeons, crypts, tombs, caves, mines, and other big holes full of monsters and treasure. These tables will help you come up with catchy names for yours. Roll on Table 1 to get the format, then roll on Tables 2-6 as appropriate. In some cases, you may…
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I always get in the weeds with combat rules, but I’m trying to use the “tables aren’t scary if they’re well organized and accessible” lesson from DCC to simplify it: Just look at the menu/table and decide what you want to do. The “free bonus effect” thing is because I want to encourage players to…
It’s an awkward situation and nobody likes to admit it, but sometimes when you’re making characters for a new game, you can’t help but thinking to yourself “this calls for Nic Cage.” The question then becomes “Which Nic Cage?” After all, Cage–like the universe itself–is infinite and ever-expanding. While we can’t help you determine whether…
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:…
It’s not a big secret that Leighton and I didn’t do a lot of statistical analysis when we wrote QAGS. After all, the system was originally meant for use in pick-up games when we didn’t have time to spend hours on character creation. We never really intended for it to be a “real” system…
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