Editor’s Note: This was originally posted to Patreon before I started the C10KD page. The current version can be found here. The game mechanics in the table are from an older version of Cinemechanix. No blog this week due to the holiday, but I do have a new chunk of the City of 10,000 Daggers…
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Editor’s Note: This is another pre-World Anvil C10KD post. Here’s a link to the current WA version. Opinions on soulfaring vary considerably: Whether it’s a grave societal threat, idle distraction, path to enlightenment, or indication of moral failing depends on who you ask. For this reason, it’s a topic rarely discussed in polite company. Based…
Image Credit: Ingo Mehling [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons Editor’s Note: This is one of the early City of Ten Thousand Daggers posts I made on Patreon before I started using World Anvil. Click here for the Necropolis page on WA. Long ago, the Necropolis was a separate city, but over the centuries…
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…
By this point, you’ve got the “big idea” stuff about your ficton figured out. You know the basics of the setting, have some ideas for plot points, know who the characters are, and have some stock adventure ideas to get thing moving. If you’re halfway good at improvisation, you can probably run a session of…
Before we get into the next section of Guardians of Shymeria campaign design, I realized that I’ve been missing an important game-specific trait. Since characters become Guardians as recognition for an act of great heroism, it would probably be nice to know what the characters did to get noticed by the Guardians. So I’m going…
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,…
Now that you’ve got the ficton lined out, it’s time to start thinking about the rules, and character creation is usually the best place to start. By this point, you’ve probably got a pretty good idea of what kind of characters the PCs can choose from, so all you’ve got to do is figure how…
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….
