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This has been a passion project of mine for two years now. Avatar: The Last Airbender is my favorite show ever. Apocalypse World has forever changed my RPG experience. Mashing...
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Electric Bastionland is out for backers. The Oddendum has a whole bunch of essays about how to run the game. It is because these essays are in the game that I wanted it so bad....
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I love Troika! but not for the system. Me, a month ago And then I had realization while watching Samurai Champloo, a bizarre anime that swims in musical-historical dissonance....
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We talked about Knowledge and Perception in my homemade Red Ink Adventures before. I still hold the opinion that both Knowledge and Perception Checks/Rolls are terrible in...
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We talked about Dying before. This is what happens after death. In Red Ink Adventures, “When a PC dies, create a new PC who inherits their items, property, and Debt. Either...
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When you tell a story, you often use the rule of threes. Three bowls: Daddy Bear’s porridge is too hot, Momma Bear’s is too cold, Baby Bear’s is just right. If you were to only...
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Making death interesting has come up on my “RPG content writing consumption” multiple times this week. Once from Luka over at WizardThiefFighter and another time just recently...
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This is a mystery/horror Dread scenario about a ten hour train ride from Shanghai to Moscow (click for the itch link). Some people are going to Moscow, some are going further,...
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It’s no surprise that Red Ink Adventures draws heavily from Into the Odd (and it’s cousin Electric Bastionland). Chris McDowall, creator of Into the Odd, wrote about how he...
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In Red Ink Adventures, the group starts 10,000 coins in debt. Roll what they bought/invested in below (d66): 11- Sparkcraft servant 12- Large boat with a big cannon 13- Upkeep...
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Confession #1: I don’t like roll-under systems. Don’t get me wrong, I adore Into the Odd, but that’s mostly because of the simplified tri-stat characters and razor-sharp,...
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I consume a lot of media. I’ve also been trained by my liberal arts education (whoopee) to connect things and cross-pollenate them to make them awesome. It’s a bad habit. ...
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Here is a hack of Red Ink Adventures from u/StrongholdPressGames! This is a link to the discussion over at r/osr! Some changes I noticed: Flexible Target Number. Not all Danger...
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Welcome to a new series where I answer questions. From people. Like you reading this. Yes. You. You people that write in motivate me to write more. I really enjoy interacting...
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It’s been a while since I’ve made an open table pitch. Read this if you’re unfamiliar with what they are or how they work. After watching Episode IX and Star Wars Rebels, I’ve...
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Here is the continually updated link to the rules of Red Ink Adventures. Here is the character sheet. After some playtesting, I adjusted some things. So if you’ve downloaded...
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As a small blog, I can respond to people. That’s a cool thing. I’ve been asked, so figured I’d make a post about it: “How do I create monsters in Maze Rats 5.3?” Answer: follow...
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So it begins. Having already married the superb Maze Rats and the illustrious Hot Springs Island together in this new ruleset of Maze Rats for Tabletop Adventure Game/NSR/OSR...
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Maps are cool. So are the tokens, chess pawns, Lego characters, and miniatures we push around on them. I love my RPGs to have helpful visuals to convey information. They’re...
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v.5.3 is a modified version of Ben Milton’s v.4.3 of Maze Rats. Here it is. EDIT: This game has been updated. Find it here! I’m using this to run Hot Springs Island (see a text...
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I’ve seen these all over the internet (and in a game or two if I’m not mistaken). The idea is that a random encounter on a 1-in-6 is basically not worth rolling. If I’m going...
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I wanted to make a fast dungeon crawler based on Maze Rats and Into the Odd that even children could play. It uses, at most, 2d6. The rules are one sheet. Character generation...
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Lazy name, I apologize. I made a cyberpunk hack of Swords Without Master called Guns Without Master, based on my Into the Odd hack, called Blood and Chrome. This is not an RPG....
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I made a capstone project for my Honors program. Me being me, I made role-playing scenarios to be put in a social studies classroom. Two of these were for the games Quill and...
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I took the time to actually write this stuff out. I read an article about why commandments/rules/contracts are important for RPGs. I stole some principles from the original...
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The title. I made a character sheet for a Lord of the Rings RPG game based on the Tolkien Quest books (which apparently was also called Middle-Earth Quest at one point?)....
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I’ve been working on a Maze Rats hack of my own. This is the character generation sheet. The “features” referenced on Step 3 is something I have yet to create. Some rapid-fire...
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Here’s a Spark Table I made for an “Over the Garden Wall” RPG like Babes in the Wood, a “Powered by the Apocalypse” game. Simply roll d66 for each and combine the results. (To...
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Last month, I submitted an entry to the 200 Word RPG contest. “Are You My Maker?” made it among the finalists, one of the forty out of over 500 to do so! I’m excited. That’s...
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I was pointed to a fun set of ideas regarding alternate ways to give XP… Thank you, sir. “How are players rewarded?” is always a good question to ask from a game master and...