The Ronin’s Guide to the Sprawl: Street Cred is a supplement for Interface Zero, Savage World’s cyberpunk game that I’m reasonable sure is sitting unread somewhere on my hard drive. I bought it because it was on sale and it’s a system for tracking and handling character reputation, which I’ve never seen done especially well…
Let’s talk about resources, which at least for this post include things like money and equipment, connections and allies, locations (like crime caves or secret hideouts), social capital (rank, status, fame, etc.), and anything else that’s beneficial to the character but not a personal trait of the character. In QAGS, we called (more or less)…
“You are not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis.”–Tyler Durden, Fight Club If Tyler Durden were a GM, he might add that you are not your Charisma, you’re not your Gimmick,…
When Hex wrote M-Force: Monster Hunting in the 21st Century, we included a lot of detail about the organization and all of the support that it could offer a team of monster hunters in the field. Unfortunately, we didn’t include any rules for dealing with this support structure, which meant the competence and response time…
In D&D, all characters start the game with a randomly determined number of gold pieces with which to buy equipment. Once the campaign gets started, they keep track of every piece of treasure or equipment they find, buy, sell, or give away, which can lead to very complex accounting and resource tracking once characters reach…
