Showing posts with label Game Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Game Design. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

The value of bell curves

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A while back I started talking to some friends about starting up a regular game again. To fill some time, after realizing that it would need...
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...
Wednesday, October 1, 2014

How to write rules for old school games - does it have to be bad?

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As I wrote my little piece on Dragons At Dawn, I realized a thing about how to write rules text. There's a trap to look out for when wri...
Monday, September 29, 2014

Old D&D editions and clones - D@D

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The second of the old D&D editions and clones is Dragons At Dawn. I find gaming archaeology to be a fascinating subject, and the very d...
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 22, 2013

Making Star Wars feel like Star Wars

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After thinking about how some science fiction novels differ from my sf gaming, and how a simple western can be told very differently, my att...
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, October 9, 2013

When do you need a game system to support your play?

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A short while ago I read a forum post where someone claimed the game 3:16 did not work for them. I played it a few times and thought it wor...
Sunday, September 8, 2013

Emergent Story - in multiple ways

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I was listening to an episode of the  The Walking Eye podcast recently. It sometimes has moments of pure brilliance, and I was hoping to ...
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...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

A reflection on Rolemaster - tweakablility

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Having been in a conversation about Burning Wheel, a game built very tightly to a specific specification, I think back on how amazingly modu...
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, 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...
Friday, May 4, 2012

Persuading people for fun and profit - redux

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I listened to an episode of the Happy Jacks RPG Podcast when they talked about how to convince another PC, while still keeping that free wi...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

What's important in D&D3 - what I (apparently) thought back then

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I took out my D&D3 books yesterday, since I made a new character . I also found that I had put small coloured tabs on some sections of t...
Sunday, October 9, 2011

Some musings on skills

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I was listening to the Roll for Initiative Podcast , and they were talking about non-weapons proficiencies and "skills" and it daw...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Summer slowdown - solo gaming

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I'm in the midst of summer vacations, and gaming is now happening less than usual. A few years back I remember a friend saying that soon...
Sunday, June 12, 2011

How to have interesting extened conflicts

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I have been thinking on how some parts of rpgs never seem to turn into the drama intended, but devolve into endless rolls of the dice withou...