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Straight-Up Premise Theft: The Almighty Johnsons | System sans Setting
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Rise of the Runelords. Borrowing from Video Games: State of Decay’s Scheduling of Disaster. Borrowing from Video Games: The Witcher’s Tally War. Straight-Up Premise Theft: The Almighty Johnsons. July 6, 2015. So you know how video game designers who blog tend to have blogs that go dark suddenly and for extensive periods when their game is about to come out? This week starts a companion series to Serial Numbers Filed Off. The show is currently available for streaming on Netflix.). There are a number of ga...
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Rise of the Runelords | System sans Setting
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Rise of the Runelords. Rise of the Runelords. My Pathfinder adventure path campaign ran from January 2009 to June 2010, for a total of 39 sessions. All the logs appear on this site. Pretty much all session logs are spoilers for the adventure path, available from Paizo. Module 1: Burnt Offerings. Goblin Attack and Miscellaneous Courtings. Goblin Education and Infestation, …. Or Ghastly Goings-on at the Glassworks. Dungeon Crawling for Great Justice. We Could be…. The Secret to Boss Fights…. Group Skill Ch...
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Borrowing from Video Games: State of Decay’s Scheduling of Disaster | System sans Setting
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Rise of the Runelords. Straight-Up Premise Theft: The Almighty Johnsons. Borrowing from Video Games: State of Decay’s Scheduling of Disaster. June 9, 2014. The new DLC for. At its core, the mechanic seems like an ideal solution for games struggling under a lack of over-arching time pressure, particularly games of. That suffer from the fifteen-minute adventuring day. The mechanic doesn’t have to be a horde of enemies, all it really takes is:. The problem needs to be something within the GM’s ability...
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Straight-Up Premise Theft: Haven | System sans Setting
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Rise of the Runelords. Player Tricks: Solving RPG Mysteries. GM Tricks: Short Session vs. Long Session. Straight-Up Premise Theft: Haven. August 10, 2015. Perhaps more importantly to Audrey, a poorly-explained newspaper picture from the last troubling time displays a woman that looks just like her, who was apparently instrumental in saving the town. Could this be the mother that gave her up for adoption, or something even stranger? This show is currently available for streaming on Netflix.). In a setting...
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Dresden Files: Alternate Lawbreaker Rules | System sans Setting
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Rise of the Runelords. Straight-Up Premise Theft: Sense8. Player Tricks: Solving RPG Mysteries. Dresden Files: Alternate Lawbreaker Rules. July 27, 2015. I’m thinking about running a warden-focused. I think this tweak should preserve the intent of the system, while making it much more attractive to character optimizers. Jul 31, 2015. Sounds like it’d escalate awfully fast. Alternate Clone Wars, Part 2 System sans Setting. Feb 08, 2016. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Group Skill Chec...
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System Review | System sans Setting
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Rise of the Runelords. In 2010, I started doing weekly reviews of tabletop game systems. The explanation of the project and my biases is here. This page was last updated in early July, 2012. You can access more recent reviews through the category. While you wait for me to stop being lazy and update this page. Don’t Rest Your Head:. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying 3rd Edition:. Pathfinder: Ability Point-Based Supers. D20: A Facing Hack. Fantasy Timekeeping without the Sun. Mages of the Hedge.
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Borrowing from Video Games: The Witcher’s Tally War | System sans Setting
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Rise of the Runelords. Straight-Up Premise Theft: The Almighty Johnsons. Straight-Up Premise Theft: Sense8. Borrowing from Video Games: The Witcher’s Tally War. July 13, 2015. Game introduces several minigames to divert from the main gameplay. A good overview of the game can be found here. But for the highlights:. Each player must have a deck of at least 22 cards, and ten are pulled for the match. Each card has a value associated with it. Each faction has a special ability and can have one version of a c...
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Straight-Up Premise Theft: Sense8 | System sans Setting
https://samhaine.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/straight-up-premise-theft-sense8
Rise of the Runelords. Borrowing from Video Games: The Witcher’s Tally War. Dresden Files: Alternate Lawbreaker Rules. Straight-Up Premise Theft: Sense8. July 20, 2015. This show is currently available for streaming on Netflix.). The reason for the powers, the setting, and the nature of problems and conspiracies can vary vastly, but the powerset is specific:. Jul 20, 2015. I feel like one of the big challenges of running a Sense8 game is scene pacing and transition – balancing things so that no one...
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Writing and Solving an RPG Mystery | System sans Setting
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Rise of the Runelords. Burnt Offerings, Part 10. Burnt Offerings, Part 11. Writing and Solving an RPG Mystery. August 24, 2009. Originally posted February 2009. Last year I found a good thread. Given a known case and the result of the case, the case’s rule can be determined. (Given that these beans were taken from the bag and all of these beans are white, all beans in the bag must be white.) This is the second strongest type of investigation, because reaching a solution generally allows the...If the bean...
