Showing posts with label FATE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FATE. Show all posts
Thursday, December 25, 2014

Playing in Tekumel, with Fate

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I have been quite curious about Tekumel a while now. More and more Tekumel texts have assembled on my sagging shelves, and I have decided to...
Monday, November 3, 2014

Some impressions of Mutant: Year Zero

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I guess you have heard that Modiphius is going to publish the Swedish post-apocalyptic game Mutant ? If you have not, go forth and click tha...
Saturday, November 1, 2014

Running Tianxia - the session that brainfaded

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Last Wednesday I was supposed to be running my somewhat weekly Tianxia game. This time I canceled the game, since not only were attendance a...
Thursday, October 16, 2014

Using Plot Triads for the win

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Last night we played Tianxia again. My life is in a very hectic phase, but I have managed to get a 2-3 hour session in now for two weeks in ...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Campaign design in Tianxia

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By now you have probably picked up on what's my favourite Fate setting, the wuxia game Tianxia from Vigilance Press. I have ran a few s...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Running a game of Fate - Tianxia

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Having played a few sessions of Fate, and having seen how much it's been talked about, I took the plunge and ran a game myself. The publ...
Sunday, September 14, 2014

Waking up, smelling the coffee and thinking ahead

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Excuse me if I wax a bit poetic in my post titles. Sometimes I get a bit influenced by Samuel R. Delaney and created titles that sound prete...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

How to have a moving combat

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A while ago we had a game session in our irregular D&D game, and it made me realize that as mechanics went, it was a very clunky game se...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Flavour of the week - converting between gamesystems

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In between the Fate game I play in, and my resurging love of BRP, I think about these trends in converting games to your favourite system. ...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

The strangeness of Fate

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I'm now a few sessions into a Fate game. It's a fantasy game, with magic and elves and all that jazz. Even though those parts makes ...
Sunday, December 22, 2013

Using the right tool for the job

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Yesterday I was browsing my collection of game books. Some of them I don't read that often, and almost forgets about. I have a few... ...
Friday, November 15, 2013

Getting hurt in different games

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Since I recently played a game of FATE, I have been searching out other experiences of playing FATE, including listening to podcasts. At the...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

My JackerCon experience - playing FATE

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This last weekend there was an online convention being organized among the fans and friends of the Happyjacks RPG podcast . It was all happe...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

My problem with Fiasco

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I have read so many times, and heard on so many podcasts, that Fiasco is a great game. Having listened to some actual play, and detailed rul...
Sunday, July 7, 2013

Impressions of FATE Core - look and feel

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So I finally got my copy of FATE Core. While I am less than happy with some Kickstarter projects, this was not one of them. Evil Hat kept i...
Saturday, July 21, 2012

How to not write a game

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Last night I had some time to browse a game I have borrowed from a friend, Dresden Files the rpg. This is a game that have been talked about...
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...