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ONE THOUSAND ONE: October 2006
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Roleplaying and everything after. Um, yeah. I've decided to create a giant chakra for all of Creation, representing the entire Loom of Fate woven by the Pattern Spiders. It is called, of course, "World-Encompassing Spider Pattern.". Alchemicals (metal), and Fair Folk (Graces). I'm still unsure about the Lunar and Sideral Castemarks and how to incorperate them. The problem with the Lunars is the Castes and Marks don't match the actual lunar phases very well. There are 8 major lunar phases:. Ideally, I'd a...
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ONE THOUSAND ONE: February 2006
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Roleplaying and everything after. Since last year's Game Chef competition, I've worked on three short games that have a somewhat similar design philosophy. They're all two-player games about China that are written to be very supportive of online chat-based play, and the stories that they tell are limited to a single scene. I've been really interested in constraining the number of players a game supports ever since Ben Lehman and Emily Care Boss blazed that trail with. An instructional book for children a...
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Random Encounters: 06/12/2005 - 06/19/2005
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Random RPG materials, speculations, and blather from Bradley "Brand" Robins. Be afraid, be very afraid. Now with a companion page Yudhishthira's Dice. That talks about theory. Sunday, June 12, 2005. The Army guy knows that if he can push the situation to violence and the resolve it well, he can get a promotion to general which will never happen if there isn’t a confrontation. It may well be his last chance to make the big leap. Set up a circle of characters so that the sides get played out. Like if t...
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Random Encounters: Exalted Adventure
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Random RPG materials, speculations, and blather from Bradley "Brand" Robins. Be afraid, be very afraid. Now with a companion page Yudhishthira's Dice. That talks about theory. Tuesday, July 06, 2004. A couple months back I got inspired on RPG.net. The City of Mist and Winter. Posted by Brand Robins at 2:30 PM. View my complete profile.
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Random Encounters: Conan Adventure
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Random RPG materials, speculations, and blather from Bradley "Brand" Robins. Be afraid, be very afraid. Now with a companion page Yudhishthira's Dice. That talks about theory. Wednesday, July 07, 2004. There aren’t a lot of stats here. Level and class guidelines are given for Mongoose’s Conan RPG. But you could do this with lots of systems. (I’d be tempted to use HeroQuest.) Whatever you do, be sure to play Basil Poledouris’s Conan the Barbarian as your soundtrack. Posted by Brand Robins at 5:35 PM.
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Random Encounters: Age of Kali
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Random RPG materials, speculations, and blather from Bradley "Brand" Robins. Be afraid, be very afraid. Now with a companion page Yudhishthira's Dice. That talks about theory. Sunday, June 12, 2005. Sorry for the double post to all my LJ friends. I wanted to have this up on this site rather than just the LJ, as a sort of "reminder to self." There is nothing new in this post if you read the last one: skip ahead. I was looking at Shadowrun the other day, and at Guardian’s of Order’s new books Ex Machina.
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Random Encounters: Xanderan: The Wizard Slayer
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Random RPG materials, speculations, and blather from Bradley "Brand" Robins. Be afraid, be very afraid. Now with a companion page Yudhishthira's Dice. That talks about theory. Tuesday, July 06, 2004. Xanderan: The Wizard Slayer. I'm a large fan of both Eden's Buffy RPG. And Shooting Iron's Talislanta. Here's what came of it: Xanderan: The Wizard Slayer. Posted by Brand Robins at 2:37 PM. View my complete profile.
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Random Encounters: Conan NPC stats
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Random RPG materials, speculations, and blather from Bradley "Brand" Robins. Be afraid, be very afraid. Now with a companion page Yudhishthira's Dice. That talks about theory. Saturday, July 10, 2004. I dug up the Conan RPG stats for the main NPCs in the adventure I posted last week, and now present them to you. For minor NPCs, I'd suggest using the "instant NPCs" .pdf. From the Mongoose site. Aquilonian, Demonic, Hyrkanian, Khitan, Old Archeronian, Shemitish, Zamorian. Knowledge is Power, Acolyte. Carou...
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Random Encounters: 09/11/2005 - 09/18/2005
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Random RPG materials, speculations, and blather from Bradley "Brand" Robins. Be afraid, be very afraid. Now with a companion page Yudhishthira's Dice. That talks about theory. Friday, September 16, 2005. And now I go about showing why this blog is called Random Encounters. The Heroic Stand: A player may declare that their character simply wins/succeeds at a contest. The cost of this is a number of MAX points equal to the HP cost of a similar "luck be a lady" purchase. Complete Defeat - 1/4th of the attri...
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Random Encounters: STRIKE!
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Random RPG materials, speculations, and blather from Bradley "Brand" Robins. Be afraid, be very afraid. Now with a companion page Yudhishthira's Dice. That talks about theory. Sunday, June 12, 2005. The Army guy knows that if he can push the situation to violence and the resolve it well, he can get a promotion to general which will never happen if there isn’t a confrontation. It may well be his last chance to make the big leap. Set up a circle of characters so that the sides get played out. Like if t...