Cinemechanix: Conflicts & Complications
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Cinemechanix: Role-Playing and Story Mechanics
When I redesigned the character stats for Cinemechanix, one thing I wanted to do was make the whole “Story” side of the sheet seem less like an afterthought, in part by including some kind of crunch to the story stuff. Role-playing and story mechanics are something I’ve never quite settled into a firm opinion on,…
Cinemechanix: Trademarks
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Remember Cinemechanix?
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Cinemechanix Classes
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Modifier Math
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M-Force Specialties for Cinemechanix
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Personalized Special Effects for Cinemechanix
Before we start, you should go buy The Comprehensive Soldier, the newest sourcebook for Qerth! One of the core ideas of Cinemechanix is that we don’t give you rules for playing a game, we give you the tools to create the rules for the game you want to play.* One recurring idea in the rules…
Campaign Design Walk-Through 8: Rules Adaptations
A few of the Cinemechanix core rules require the group to make decisions about how they apply to the game at hand. Determining the starting Hero Factor (see last week’s blog) is one example of this. Another is deciding whether a character who reaches “Broken” status ends up dead, forced into retirement by his injuries,…
Campaign Design Walk-Through 6: The Rules
A long damn time ago, I defined the word “ficton” (it’s a contractual obligation) and told you that you could break a ficton down into 5 main components: Influences, Setting, Genre Trappings, Tone and Mood, and Dramatic Rules. Now that I’ve talked about all the rest (and procrastinated a lot), let’s talk about dramatic rules….