While I don’t run team building D&D games for children, I’ve had the opportunity to run a few kids games in the last few months. I thought I’d share my experience as a game designer. Play easy games When I say easy games, I don’t […]
Running Dungeons & Dragons in a corporate environment isn’t something we nerds usually do. Roleplaying games are traditionally something we play with our friends, and doing it with strangers for team building and wellness purposes is a bit of a leap. Fortunately for my self […]
I am currently working on translating part of Gavin Norman’s Old-School Essentials into French. I wasn’t aware when I starting writing this, but OSE is actually on Kickstarter right now! Let me tell you about it and explore some of the reasons why it is […]
I have an idea for your weird/post-apocalyptic/urban fantasy game. I was thinking of Americano Anomalies and The New Economy, Tore Nielsen’s post-normal hacks, but I’d use it in my regular D&D campaign. Below are some gameables. Microwave items Prices imply that microwave technology is fairly […]
Related to my last post, I was reminiscing about the old damage notation, before they systematically used the XdN abbreviation. 2d6 was noted 2-12, d4+1 was 2-5, etc. I remember it being a bit of a math challenge when I was a kid. But I was thinking, […]
For multiple reasons (one of them being my incorrigible tinkering tendencies) I keep refining the way Lunchtime Dungeons handles damage. Hit points are gone and gutted, but I want to keep hit dice. I think hit dice can be a fun mechanic. “I thought I’d […]
More controversial hackery from the Irish frog! Well, I need to think about this, and no one’s forcing you to read my internet brain. Seriously, fuck this guy The Context For months now, I’ve been on the fence about a skill like mechanic in Lunchtime […]
Two of my goal designs for Lunchtime Dungeons are: simple procedures for shorter sessions and deadly combat. With that in mind, I’m going to test the following hack. I’m open to thoughts and suggestions. Pathetic aesthetic by Jim Holloway Damage is a fixed number (the […]
Here’s a thing I’m playtesting for Lunchtime Dungeons.(Click the pic.) The exploration procedure has been working pretty smoothly for a few months now, but I was inspired by a peek Luka Rejec gave us of his d100 event-slash-encounter table a while ago. Earlier inspiration comes […]
It took me a while, but I’ve completed the text of the first setting for Macchiato Monsters. It’s not something I had planned to do from the start, but I hit a snag with the Build-your-own-setting booklets so when Paolo suggested a mini-setting to support […]
Some time ago,+Samuel Guillon‘s character managed to convince a tribe of goblins his character should be their new god. He asked about taking a trait like God of the Goblins to have a following of fanatical flunkies. I made this mechanic in a G+ comment, […]
Because it’s not always about pistols, yanno? I am going to use these in my current campaign when it finally reaches Yoon-Suin. Like China in the Renaissance, my Purple Country is less advanced when it comes to guns, but it makes up for it with […]