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🎲 Paper App Dungeon is too easy to grind. You can just keep carefully moving and backtracking to avoid the bad stuff and hit the good stuff.
Suggestion: -1 HP anytime you cross over a path you’ve already trod, as your character experiences exhaustion.
What rules have you changed?
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Beautiful Trouble updated their toolkit.
With the new toolkit you can slice and dice depending on what you are considering, and also create pdfs from your favorites.
This is a nice online companion to the deck of cards.
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🎲 Great writeup of my favorite game system(s): Burning Wheel 🔥☸️
Summarizing:
- pioneer in transparency, character goals, “say yes”, “let it ride”, and “use-based improvement”
- emergent story, character, & setting complexity
- unique, character-driven play
- minigames
- rewards mastery
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2020: 🃏, 🎲, & 🕹 Review
To view other 2020 review posts, visit the main post here. As you may already know, I enjoy games. Especially ones with... -
Jackbox party via Discord etc.
We had a fun time trying this last night. Pro-tip for services where screen share doesn’t share audio: pipe the game output to your machine speakers (to be picked up by the mic) and the voice output to your headset.
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Pyramid Arcade Re-boxing
My brother helped 3D print this Pyramid Arcade insert, and now instead of 10 colors of 3 trios, I now have a full stash ... -
Labyrinth Adventure Game came today, and it’s even cooler than I thought it would be! Who wants to play?
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Interested in Live Action role-playing games? Live within driving distance of Indianapolis? Come join our group! We’ll try games like Inheritance by Burning Wheel HQ, The Forgotten by Andrew Medeiros, Winterhorn and other LARPs by Bully Pulpit Games.
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I received my Trilemma Adventures Compendium 1 book, and it’s the coolest physical RPG book I’ve ever seen. Great format, color, layout, lay flat, appendices, maps…you name it.
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RPGs with Kids
I recently shared pictures from an RPG I ran for my niece and nephew during thanksgiving week. I tried running Dungeon W... -
From an RPG with niece and nephew. A Risus-based TF2-inspired build-as-you-go game where the agents had to shut down a Mann Co robot factory.
Edit: full writeup now here
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I’m back from #GenCon19, so I released a podcast about Games! Available now for subscribers of Resilient.
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#GenCon19 Day 3
It was back to Games on Demand, again. Miles and I got to try out Maze Rats. I confess I have avoided a lot of the “OSR”... -
#GenCon19 Day 2
I started today off with some Games on Demand, and Miles, Christian, and I got to try the Penthouse playset with a coupl... -
#GenCon2019 Day 1
I started GenCon off right by going to the gym before opening ceremonies! I am happy of myself! When the expo hall opene... -
Have any of you already played Bloc by Bloc?
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I did some mapping for my Whitehack open table hexcrawl game. I used Martin Ralya’s Hexamancer process to make the base map, exploring a couple spirals of hexes and then finishing hexes surrounding featured sites. Text, call, or email if you want to play. #RPG
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Introducing Blog Categories and Specific Feeds!
Good news! Per this announcement, Micro.blog now supports categories, and therefore, so does this blog. Categories allow... -
From Distant Shores: we're published!
Strange invaders land on the shores of a peninsula known for its independence; rumors about their true purpose are nume... -
On regression in game design
On regression in game design The impact of a mechanically bad rule is usually that refs have to house rule around it, w... -
Re: the OSR scene
This was my response to Martin Ralya’s concerns about the OSR scene: Aaron’s comments kind of hit it for me: being defin... -
Awesome Gift List: Resistance Board Games
