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this has been on my mind, and i woke up in a mood so i looked at what i had been writing about it. however, i didn't want to bring more negativity and instead wanted to make...
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i want to start this by saying that a critique of games does not really matter, and anyone who says otherwise has something in it for them (whether that's money, influence, or...
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i meant to write this post a week or two ago but i got so busy! my friend Liber Ludorum (twitter, blog) pointed out this game to me one day to ask my opinion as an overzealous...
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you like pokemon? how about megaten? well i sure hope you do! here is the sort of bloated system i came up with in small town gothic to support fights between monsters of all...
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simmons: heygrif: yeah?simmons: you ever wonder why we're here?grif: it's one of life's greatest mysteries, isn't it? why are we here? i mean, are we the product of some cosmic...
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me and a lot of other hobbyists have been struggling with the question of how can we port something like harvest moon (or stardew valley) to a tabletop experience. to begin...
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i'm going to be speaking as a marxist whatever and not as a self-identified leftist (i.e. i don't identify), so i don't have any qualms criticizing leftists and socialists and...
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hear me out, this is just like a user experience thingd6-d6 is equal to 2d6-7, which is really handy. pictured below.we can convert the usual pbta conditions:success (3+): you...
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let there be two sets X and Y, and some binary relation r ⊂ X × Y.suppose ∃(x ∈ X ⋀ y ∈ Y) (x, y) ∈ r.suppose there is also a schema to represent some (α, β) ∈ ρ ⊂ A × B in the...
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hello all! i wanted to review one of the games from a bundle i'm participating in, the Cozy TTRPGs Bundle (link). ahead of time, i wanna point out that this bundle is $164...
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last time we finally made it to the hard mechanics of BOLT, now we're going to read about how to create a character and see how far we get from there. although before i've been...
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Each labor factor (LF) represents 1 worker for small operations, or 100 workers for industrial enterprises.Let 20 Shillings = 1 Pound, 12 Pennies = 1 Shilling, 240 Pennies = 1...
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edit: tiago rolim unfortunately passed away on april 12, 2021. please contribute to the bundle to help support his family.the RPGLATAM community is literally my favorite group...
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read the first posti thought i would skip the rest of the introductory bits to go straight to the rules, but i wanted to take a look at some other paragraphs:> Dice: Dice are...
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i’m sick, missing class, and laying in bed. i’m bored. so, gonna critique the resolution system i came up with a couple days ago. read the original post for my inspiration and...
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when a. pandey came back on twitter for five minutes to ask the timeline whether we missed him, he also said something to the effect that he's offering himself up to be...
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inspired by this post: https://goblinshenchman.wordpress.com/2021/03/25/d20-d21-bell-curve-strange-things-excite-me/might swap THAC0 table in small town gothic for this, but i...
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old post i'm moving over from my wordpress blog to think about some more. especially thinking about xp as an infinite state machine for drive/desire, and mumford's analysis of...
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i'm gonna start writing my posts like this bc it makes me frustrated when they're like misread--and it's my fault for tip-toeing around making more explicit points. so, the...
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i had the privilege of reading a draft by roz (@AllThingsTruly) for a diceless story game about mechas, and made my creativity go off the walls thinking about ways to model...
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i'm copying/pasting this here bc it'll be good to hold onto this for further development or thinking about it, challenging it etc. i typed this out to respond to jay @jdragsky...
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lolMinimum hourly wage is $0.50, so that you earn $4 every 8 hours of work.Every 8 hours you work at a job, check your most relevant stat for that job.SUCCESS: Mark 1 Job...
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In Romance languages, and Indo-European languages in general, nouns tend to be classified by 'gender'. For example, in Latin the word 'aqua' (water) is feminine, the word...
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The “World’s Greatest Role-Playing Game” is the model for a nondeterministic indefinite game because of its open interface and its ability to allow players to pursuit their...
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An indefinite game is one that could last forever not just by the players’ explicit efforts, but because it is structured to last indefinitely. Although an indefinite game will...
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I am going to be republishing my essay about dungeon crawls as an avenue for male desire, which you can find in its original rough form on my Itch.In this series, I shall...
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First, I want to give credit to dieheart's blog post which compares The Black Hack's usage dice to those of Macchiato Monsters. It sparked my interest in fun dice mechanics....
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I should clarify something from my recent ramblings on Twitter: farming games (not games about farming but the generic treatment of games about farming) are not necessarily...
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A spectre is haunting society — the spectre of society! - The Joker?I made a stupid Twitter thread thinking about monsters. Copy/pasted:given that monsters usually represent...
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This is kind of building upon my dynamic reaction roll idea. Instead of a static 1-in-6 chance of a wandering encounter, keep track of Dread.Dread represents the spirit of the...