Category: Tabletop RPG Stuff
Removing the “Null Result” from tabletop RPG combat
I was inspired by a tweet. In many combat systems of many tabletop RPGs, if you roll to attack and miss, then nothing happens. Both as a GM and a player, I’ve always disliked this. It feels like a waste of a turn, and it feels boring. I can even hear a strawman that says,…
Let’s play d6 ARKFORT: Trugnak, part 1
An hour of playing and writing up as I go. Trugnak begins with nothing but a knife, a mattock, and a supply. She ventures into the overgrown forest for the first time where a hideous goblin was waiting in ambush. She’s heard the tales of what happens if you don’t kill this thing; so, she…
How do you play d6 ARKFORT?
After watching the Questing Beast review of Disciples of Bone and Shadow (a very chunky solo OSR tabletop RPG), I’ve become even more convinced that including an example of play for a tabletop RPG is a great idea. It came up just the other night for d6 ARKFORT. My life-long bestie is very supportive, and…
What is d6 ARKFORT?
I’ve enjoyed playing some DARK FORT on my own. The group for which I was GMing was no longer able to meet consistently, and not playing tabletop RPGs killed the momentum that I had with my then-current tabletop RPG project, so I side-stepped into messing around with solo/GM-less tabletop RPG stuff. I’d honestly been intimidated…
It’s a life update! 5
And here I thought that the time between 2020’s end of October report and my catching up report at the beginning of the year was a long time to go without a blog post. So much has happened in the past year. We found out that my partner was going to need surgery for the…
Catching up report
My last post was the end of October report, which feels like it was forever ago. Since then, I’ve added five more things to my itch.io, the US presidential election happened, the holidays came and went, my partner had to get four MRIs, the MRIs found a non-cancerous brain tumor, she had to get a…
End of October report
I’m just squeezing this in under the wire. It’s going to be short and sweet. Happy Halloween! Conlang stuff report Yet another slow month for any kind of conlang stuff, but I know I’ll be returning to it sooner rather than later. It’s just been nice to work on other fun projects from which I…
Designer’s Notes: The Psyber Devangelist and Other Psi-Sci-Fi
Yes, I made another thing! By thing, I mean I made something cool for MÖRK BORG. By something cool, I mean I spent a lot of time—possibly too much time—on a new class along with some new equipment, weapons, powers, things to kill you, and some additional mechanics. It’s all inspired by science-fiction, cyberpunk, psychic powers,…
End of September report
Life still slowly goes on, even with that disaster of a presidential debate last night. I don’t even have to get political to say that I got really tired really fast of watching the impeached president act like a petulant child. It doesn’t matter whose side I’m on (which is a dumb way of putting…
Persona 4 Golden was a letdown, but Over Arms may not be
As I’ve been recovering from my surgery, I’ve been playing Persona 4 Golden (as well as some Among Us, which has been fun)—I was really excited when it came to Steam as I thought it would be a good opportunity to play a game that seemed perfect for me that I missed out on as a kid. Well,…