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System Sketch: Console Dice

I love The Force Unleashed series because I like Star Wars, superheroes, and video games that cater to people bad at playing video games. So I whipped up a quick game system based on a console controller layout:

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More Old School Dice Pool Shenanigans

I’m still thinking about that OD&D and Chainmail inspired dice pool system from the other day. Let me add a few rules:

Exploding Dice: I resisted it, but it looks like I’ll need it to help characters deal with long…

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Gary Gygax Invents Dice Pools

Over the past week I’ve been thinking about Chainmail and OD&D, as well as the late Gary Gygax’s mention (in an old ENWorld thread) that he used an opposed hit dice rolls to resolve grappling. I’m an Old School skeptic…

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Here, Have the Alpha of the Supers Game I’m Running

This is the superhero game I’m going to run. It owes a lot to S. John Ross’ RISUS but with enough modifications to be its own thing because I have no sense of humour.

Creating a Character

Purchasing Traits at

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The RPG EBook of the Future

To follow up on the Next Gen RPGs post I’d like to toss up a sample interface:

This is probably a Flash application. You can resize, minimize or dismiss each pane in the interface above. The book screen is…

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RPG Sketch (Old): Fab Force!

Note: This is an old sketch from my personal journal.

It occurred to me a while ago that those lifestyle shows really are one of the closest, non-nerd analogs to superheroics around. Thus, Fab Force: The RPG of Style!

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RPG Sketch: Dungeon War!

Here’s a quick idea for a heroic dungeon crawling game. It’s not intended to be innovative — just to play with this:

The Main Idea: We all know that in a balanced level-based RPG, advancement is kind of illusory. So…

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Guardian Heroes, Pt. 2

The second session of Quick20 supers was a lot of fun. To be brief:

The game takes place in a fast and loose version of the Marvel Universe. The PCs are Team Discord: Aerobot (an robot mascot-hero that escaped…

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Guardian Heroes

I released Quick20 not too long ago and it’s been doing pretty well. On top of that, I’ve started a second gaming group, so that I’m running Vampire/Mage on Tuesdays and . . . well, I was running a…

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Screwtopia: A Singular Farce

This is a quick idea for a game. It even comes with text you’re supposed to read aloud! To start:

You wake up in the body you hand in your early 20s (unless you died younger, in which case you’re…

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