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There is no magic in this world but for these one hundred items... Find the PDF on the itch store! 🙂 The original text comes from Patrick Stuart of the False Machine blog. These entries have been edited out of fascination to increase their likelihood of arriving at more gaming tables. Find the original article … Continue reading The World of 100 Wonders
What if you could take Firefly The Game and transform it into Traveller? After reading Sir Poley's Four Legs of Traveller series, you'll come to understand there are four beating hearts nested together within the Traveller framework: Ship Mortgage Payments Random Character Creation Random Encounters Patrons Goal Normally, Firefly The Game runs on a Story … Continue reading Firefly: The Game as a Four-Legged Traveller Sandbox
The Hobbit A spectrum of table styles with two extremities: crystalized and fluid. Crystalized. The world is set in stone. The GM or an intellectual property has declared its boundaries. Details are made ahead of time like calendars with holidays and festivals, towns with maps and points of interests, major factions with motivations and rosters, … Continue reading Adventure World Chassis
With Netflix's live action cover of Cowboy Bebop coming out just around the corner (FRIDAY!), I've been doing so much to get into the mood. Because Bebop is 100% style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULCIHP5dc44&ab_channel=Netflix I've been watching the anime, listening to the music (while I write this), and reading this delicious RPG recently shown to me: Space Bounty … Continue reading Cowboy Bebop: Space Bounty Blues
<Once called Matrix games> Chris McDowall is running a game called Sunrise Expansion. See what the heck an Open Strategy/Matrix game is right here. It's like Free Kriegsspiel Revolution and wargames and LARPing and play-by-post had a baby... Anyway, I read up on what he was doing and took a stab at the concept in … Continue reading Landover, An Open Strategy Game
Fun lich guy... 🙂 After making GRIM FORTUNES and Island Rats, I wanted to revisit both in this hack. HERE ARE THE RULES. What's all new here? Reaction (missing from Island Rats, whoops)New backgrounds (they fall closer in line with classic DnD, plus some pulls from Wormskin and Cairn).No longer married to Hot Springs Island... … Continue reading GRIM RATS
The remaster no one asked for! 😀 This is the marvelous Maze Rats with the glorious gunpowder sandbox Hot Springs Island. Friends and I were talking about Hot Springs Island at a party (Happy 21st, Jon!). Made me remember this game (find the old version here). And there were some changes I wanted to make. … Continue reading Island Rats
This is a project of mine I've been working on off and on. It's gaming with kids in anachronistic fantasyland Free Kriegsspiel Revolution style. This is a little PDF I put together back in December with four pages: a title page, all of the rules, all of character creation, and a nice, comprehensive animal table. … Continue reading Adventure Hour! Draft 0.3
Wicked helmet. Weekend project. There's something about getting REALLY into a task where the hours pass by that is just beautiful. Spent around 8 hours in the past two days alone. Geez. More Arnesonian design! Edit: This game has been reworked to Skorne, a full four page RPG. Find it here. This game came about … Continue reading Blood in the Snow
Read the preview and purchase the rules here! Introduction What you are reading describes a game but is not in itself a game. While other games have winners and losers, every player of this game is a winner if they enjoyed the process of play and the shared experience of the story they made together. … Continue reading Adventure Hour! RPG
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