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Modifier Math

Steve Johnson8 years ago3 years ago01 mins

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How To Play A Horror Game

Steve Johnson8 years ago3 years ago02 mins

Since Monday was Halloween and it’s been a long week, here’s the excerpt from Spooky: The Definitive Guide to Horror Gaming that we posted to the Death Cookie right after the book (Hex’s first full-sized one) was released back in October 2001. Horror gaming requires the player make a few changes to her normal style…

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One Shot: Argonauts in SPAAAAAAACE!

Steve Johnson9 years ago3 years ago01 mins

Things are slow on the Cinemechanix front this week. so let’s do one of those blogs where I sketch out a one-shot adventure using my handy One Shot Generator Script (adapted from some of the tables in The Book of Dumb Tables and its sequel). As always, I have two options, since each Book of…

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Hardcore Cyberpunk Vampires

Steve Johnson10 years ago2 years ago01 mins

Kind of a slow week on Cinemechanix playtest front. I’ve got the Hobomancer sample game almost finished and will hopefully be posting it next week, but otherwise there’s not much going on right now, so I’m going to take a break from the design journal this week and talk about cyberpunk vampires. I’ve been watching…

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Cinemechanix Design Journal: (Sorta) Finished Draft

Steve Johnson10 years ago2 years ago01 mins

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Tuesday Table: Random MacGuffins

Steve Johnson13 years ago3 years ago01 mins

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Happy D20 Adventures #13

Leighton Connor 15 years ago3 years ago01 mins

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