Recent Posts Tagged With 'game design'

• The Complete, Unabridged Manual Of How To Play Roleplaying Games

  Posted on Friday December 11th, 2009 at 07:00 in game design, dm advice, player advice, rpg history

  Has it all been said before? The RPG internet community has roots that extend back more than two decades. Yes, it's true - people were discussing roleplaying games on the internet before it was even the internet. Shocking. I know. Go here to boggle...

• Towards More Cinematic Gaming: Part 3 - The Sword vs. the Sledgehammer

  Posted on Wednesday May 20th, 2009 at 05:00 in weapons, game design, house rules

  Towards More Cinematic Gaming: Part 3 - The Sword vs. the Sledgehammer #1:   Two level 3 fighters square off:  One is carrying a longsword the other a warhammer.  Both are completely unarmored and equally specializ...

• Towards More Cinematic Gaming: Part 2 - Fate

  Posted on Thursday May 14th, 2009 at 06:00 in game design, house rules

  Its D-day. Omaha beach. Shells falling, flying. The landing ramp drops as your craft beaches; your platoon rushes forth. 4 take their last bloody breaths to machine gun fire before they can pull out of the water... Yet in all the bloodshed and sens...

• Towards more Cinematic Gaming, Part 1 - RPG Statistics

  Posted on Thursday May 7th, 2009 at 05:00 in statistics, game design

  The d20...So easy, so iconic. So flat.Ah, but what I am talking about it the statistical distribution of outcomes. I love the d20 for its ease and its iconic fun-ness, but I hate it for the fact that getting a 1 is just as likely has getting a 20, or...

• Towards More Cinematic Gaming: Intro

  Posted on Thursday April 30th, 2009 at 06:00 in game design, house rules

  Quick Introduction: 'names Tom, 32 years old, fairly grognard on the continuum, though I often follow the Rule of Cool as made famous by Chatty DM.  I have played D&D since basic, but I must admit its not my favorite system, though it is rat...