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Originally I wanted a way of rationalizing a 120-day calendar. Speaks for itself, obviously!Human BeingsHuman beings were originally inter-dimensional colonizers who traveled...
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I think RuPaul is fucking hilarious, sue me about it. My brain can't resist the punny potential between drag and dragon, especially when villain characters are so often played...
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I wanted to normalize Skerples’ list of medieval prices to make it easier to compare items! I took copper as the standard, so silver pieces are multiplied by 10 and gold pieces...Linked by the ring
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I wrote the basic player-side rules for FIVEY, everything you need to interface with the game! More importantly, this is the foundation upon which character feats are...
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I wanted to memorialize the characters that Sandro and I played during Nova's play-test sessions for Bridewell and Hiss, the summaries for which you can find on her blog. The...
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Thoughts on using the FIVEY framework to run my apocalyptic white whale, The Brimstone Gospel:Level-0 row (title, skill, feat) associated with the human character.Each row...
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Time for absolute nutjob posting. Mental illness posting. My partner is studying for a big exam and I'm just here for moral support. Then I got bored. Enjoy?I think that 4 hp...
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Thinking about a certain line about formal incentives in role-playing games, first articulated by Luke Gearing. To be clear, I really like Gearing and respect his work a lot....
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I have been sort of doing some soul-searching with regards to my participation in this whole thing. I've said before, when I was in a pissy mood, that I'm only really here for...
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Was re-reading S. John Ross’ essay, “Medieval Demographics Made Easy”, and I wanted to figure out my own take with less number-fidgeting and more discrete quantities. Then,...Linked by the ring
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I shared this on Twitter and Bluesky earlier, but wanted to blog about it and also retype the Q&A section so it can be used outside the sheet itself! Below is a "pregame...Linked by the ring
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I've been suggesting for a while that one could read torches in OD&D, sold in bundles of six for 1 g.p., as being used at a rate of one per turn rather than one per six turns...
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I thought it would be fun to take two of my old D&D characters from high school and turn them into FIVEY characters! Actually, not just that: they're my first two characters...Linked by the ring
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Realized lately that the amount of money that characters start with in classic D&D is kind of obscene. I've attached a screenshot of Fantastic Medieval Campaigns above, which...
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Three more character origins! The scalespawn take after the dragonborn and the watchers after the aasimar, but I'm trying to play more with mythic backstories as opposed to the...
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I have been writing quite a few character origins, to the detriment of leaving backgrounds untouched. For some context, origins are analogous to races or ancestries whereas...
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Let’s just tally everything up. The most liberal estimates attribute about 8 million deaths to the Holodomor, the famine from 1932-3 in Soviet Ukraine under Stalin’s...
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To start, a transcript of a chatroom conversation with my friend Nova: Nova: i think the challenge is that you’d need to pick some kind of compatibility points or define a...Linked by the ring
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the main difference between [fascist Italy and communist China] is ideological, i.e. aesthetic. mussolini conceived of fascist italy as a set of classes under the dictatorship...
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Another one! Actually, five to match the typical demihuman "races" you expect from a D&D.Not doing half-orcs and half-elves. I actually feel like it's a pussy move to use...Linked by the ring
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This is an ugly ugly draft, posting for WFS’ reference. I’ll clean this up later, in a separate post, just to present a more straightforward ruleset rather than whatever this...
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I’m not even going to grace this book with a photo, and it’s totally not because my nails are overgrown and I need to get them redone. I alluded earlier to the online proxy war...
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Was thinking about two similar methods of single-roll attacks with damage points built into the outcome. The first is subtracting a value from the (random) damage dealt, to a...
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My friend WFS at Prismatic Wasteland came up with the following algorithm for using dice to randomly determine the money-value of your treasure: So when the party decides to...Linked by the ring
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The Party for Socialism and Liberation is a communist party in the United States. In August 2022, they published Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United...
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Another character origin for Fivey! By the way, I’ve published a collection of all the house rules I’ve talked about so far, plus ones I didn’t want to make separate blogs for....
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My friend Ènziramire and I were chatting about how hard it is to find a based Stalin who, at some point, must have existed in history. Was he a four-dimensional entity who bled...
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Expanding upon a comment from a previous blog post: The idea is that the rest phase is an approximately 12-hour period each day where characters take turns sleeping and keeping...Linked by the ring
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I think elves are kinda overdone. A while ago I talked about communing with nymphs as an alternative to the typical druid power. In the context of Fivey, here's another route:...
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I was hanging with my friend Ènziramire and he asked me if I had read either Settlers or “The Breadbook” (The Conquest of Bread)1, which Maoists and anarchists respectively...