Showing posts with label Rules. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rules. Show all posts
Saturday, March 12, 2016

Deep thinking on T&T going on

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After my last few posts, I started to wonder why things were like they were in the rules for T&T and initiated conversations with the cr...
Monday, March 7, 2016

Mix and match T&T rules - Rules for gear

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Finally, after dissecting multiple editions of the game, I get so mix and match up the rules for the perfect experience. According to me. I ...
Saturday, March 5, 2016

Combat capabilities through T&T editions

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The next part of my walk through of T&T editions will be a closer look at some miscellaneous rules that pertain to combat, and that migh...
Wednesday, March 2, 2016

A bucket full of dice - how the dice have changed in T&T through the ages

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Like I wrote in my last post, it seems the biggest issue people are having with dT&T who have come to the game cold, are the dice pools....
Monday, February 29, 2016

Some thoughts on the latest T&T edition

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So finally did the big book arrive! The Kickstarter campaign was not really the most pleasurable experience you could imagine, but it no shi...
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...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Bethorm - first impressions of the rules

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Today I had a day off from work, and unusual for me, I managed to plow through a lot of the rules, and made my first character. Here are som...
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...
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...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Impressions from running Stormbringer

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Last weekend I ran a game of Stormbringer. It was a long time since I last did, and now I used the 5th ed. which have some changes from the ...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Delving Deeper - long/short weapons

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As a companion to my post about weapon speed/reach. These are the arms listed in the Delving Deeper boxed set, with an entry for which weap...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Long weapons with reach for older editions

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I just revisited my old favourite Stormbringer, and found that in that game there's a neat mechanic for how to handle reach and speed of...
Thursday, November 14, 2013

Magic Items in a new light - the Investment ritual of Dragonquest

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I have been charmed by all those who fondly talk about SPI's fantasy RPG, and with that glimmer in the eye mention it as the best game t...
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,...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

The stamina die

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I just read on intwischa.com a really neat idea bout how to model fatigue. This does sound familiar, but I'm putting it up here for p...
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, March 30, 2012

T&T hacks - a series of rules surgeries

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I took a long hard look at my wall of games. I like those games. Some of them I haven't played in a long while, though. I see why the id...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Another take on how to influence characters, PC and NPC

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I just found this quite interesting blog post. It ties into those posts of mine about using social interaction to influence PCs. Maybe if y...
Thursday, February 23, 2012

The question of free will - part two

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So, I started off with the situation where a PC want to convince a NPC to to do something. Let's now look at the much thornier issue, in...