Showing posts with label Character Generation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Character Generation. Show all posts
Saturday, December 6, 2014

Bethorm - making the first character

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What a better way to get to know a rules set, and to get a feel for the book than to make a character! I took the dive, and Biyúnu hiViridám...
Monday, July 1, 2013

Savage Worlds - issues with character generation

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I was just starting to listen to a podcast , and they were playing Savage Worlds. Ever since I first read the original 40k miniatures rules,...
Monday, May 20, 2013

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While we wait for me to find something intelligent to say about our current Savage Worlds game, I felt like bringing some worthy cause some ...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Thinking back on 7th Sea

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I ran a short arc of a revenge story in AEG's 7th Sea a few years back. The idea of swashbuckling is seldom far from my gaming thoughts...
Sunday, July 8, 2012

Character personality as crunch

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I read a post on The Douchey DM , by Stu from Happy Jacks RPG Podcast . He posts on the topic of whether character personality chould be par...
Sunday, April 22, 2012

T&T hacks - Over The Edge

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 Since Over The Edge showed up in 1992, designers  Jonathan Tweet and  Robin D Laws have designed more games, and all are very much talke...
Friday, February 24, 2012

D&D character generation. Return of an old... friend?

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So, tonight I made my first new D&D character in a while! Some friends of a friend have been playing in a campaign for the last five or ...
Monday, December 26, 2011

A Traveller rule for general empowerment and player satisfaction

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Even though I hate the idea of a "balanced" party, there are some value to having game system support for everyone getting involve...
Sunday, December 18, 2011

Traveller - the game I thought I had quit

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Traveller is one of the icons in the hobby. For me the acronym LBB always meant Little Black Books, and referred to the three volumes of Cla...
Monday, November 14, 2011

CoC character generation

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So, this weekend we generated some character for CoC. I will be running The Hills Rise Wild when we next meet. It will be interesting. I ...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

A new game in town

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A while ago I decided I was fed up my the gaming drought, and decided to follow the advice of Jim Raggi. He had an article in on issue of Fi...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

GURPS through a FATE lens

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I have been thinking about GURPS a lot lately, and it feels like it wont leave my head. GURPS is a very crunchy system, and while I have n...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

House rule - leveling in T&T by combining editions

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I have been thinking about T&T again, in the midst of all CoC I have been preoccupied with. Some people seem to have an issue with the...
Thursday, July 1, 2010

An insight into "rules lite" systems

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Yesterday we met for the first real session of 7th Sea, the new game in my "indie Wednesday" group. We had met once before but had...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Rolling or designing

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I have been thinking a bit about how I experience the characters I play. I have said before that I am a firm believer in rolling the dice an...
Friday, September 25, 2009

Reading T&T 7.5 - Character Generation II p.p20-28

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Now we have come to the part of the rulebook which talks about attributes. I find it odd that these are described after the Types, since the...
Wednesday, September 23, 2009

A new way of looking at combat adds

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Over at the Trollbridge, the very creative mind known as "Toad-Killer-Dog" put forth his suggestion on how to use different attri...
Friday, September 18, 2009

Reading T&T 7.5 - Character Generation p.6-20

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Who said it was slow on Fridays in the blogosphere!? Here I am again, reading T&T from cover to cover. This week I'll look at Chara...