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Almost two months ago, I reviewed crafting mechanics in games before laying out the ground rules for crafting in my fantasy heartbreaker, The Serket Hack. During that process,...Linked by the ring
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When combat starts, why does the wizard not simply cast their biggest spell? Magic as Ammunition The magic system of Dungeons & Dragons is (in part) based on a series of...
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Full Metal Bones is the mecha game I’m developing; it’s currently on the back burner as I’ve been working on my other project. That said, the back burner is still cooking and I...Linked by the ring
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In March of 2024 at the height of Cohost, I stumbled across a post telling people how to create their own Neocities website. The downfall of Twitter and the loss of many...
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I’ve been working on some organization lately by putting together a library of all my tabletop games. Part of that process involves trying to come up with a “pitch” for each...
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A little while back, I showed one of my friends the website I’m building and she asked me what faggot games meant. I directed her to click on the link, as I believe that...
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After last week’s double-post with the blogclave, I definitely cut it close finishing my post for this week. It’s still technically my Saturday night as far as I’m concerned,...
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(original comic by Jake Likes Onions) Prismatic Wasteland has challenged all ttrpg bloggers to an emergency bandwagon because of the ongoing conclave. It’s an excuse to...Linked by the ring
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I keep avoiding the elephant in the room: I really haven’t said anything about The Serket Hack’s combat system. I know the vague shape of it, but my ambition to have unique...
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Now that we’ve covered research for games both digital and physical, we can take that knowledge and apply it to a crafting mechanic for The Serket Hack. Unlike the last two...
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Last week we looked at crafting systems across a variety of video games, broadly splitting them into categories based on input and output and process. This week I want to look...
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One of the notes I’ve written for The Serket Hack is “a crafting mechanic that isn’t disappointing”. I love crafting in games; resource management is my passion. Unfortunately,...
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I grew up in Suzhou, China, which had a population of about 6 million people when I was living there and has only grown since then. I considered it to be a small city in...
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Before we get into today’s topic: my zungeon is finally out! Go check it out over on itch! It’s compatible with any system (bring your own statblocks) but it’s also made with...
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My entry for the aforementioned Zungeon Jam is nearing completion and I wanted to take a moment to talk about the tools that I used. I do a lot of design work but frankly, most...
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I’ve never seen a cleric done well. A few days ago, I finished a (re-) playthrough of Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, in anticipation of playing Obsidian’s new game in the...
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How does it work? What makes it tick? What are the mechanisms driving gameplay forward? Are we on a railroad or in a sandbox? These are the questions that plague me when I look...
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Content Warning This is an intersection of kink and tabletop roleplaying games. Pull out now if that’s not your speed. Monster Hunter Wilds released last Thursday, so we’re...
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On January 1st, Idle Cartulary over at Playful Void threw down the gauntlet by challenging everyone to make a dungeon zine. Everyone should make a dungeon, at least once....
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One of my favorite mecha writers, Osaka, wrote a post recently. I love pilots don’t get me wrong but the real sauce to a good mecha story is to tell a story where you couldn’t...
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I definitely thought I’d be following up my last post to talk more about The Serket Hack, but the mecha thoughts have been hounding me this week. In particular, the thriving...
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I’ve got two ttrpgs I’m cooking in the oven currently. The first is a mecha rpg called Full Metal Bones and it’s been on the backburner while I figure out exactly how I want to...
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Gadda has my gears turning again. A couple days ago he made a post over on bluesky talking about the aggro mechanics for the Log Horizon TRPG. Now I can’t stop thinking about...
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Let’s take the fact that System Matters is given. How do we determine whether a specific system is a good or bad fit? What are games, actually? The good news is that people...
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In July 1999, Ron Edwards posted an essay called “System Does Matter”. A copy of this essay is available on the now-defunct forums of The Forge, which was a community of people...
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Jargon is necessary to have deeper conversations from an academic perspective. In order to build upon ideas, we develop a shorthand to refer to foundational concepts. I don’t...
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I’ve been wanting to blog for a while now, but Gadda is the reason the ball is rolling. He said something a little while back about wanting to publish a blog post for every...