Due to very sudden and unexpected changes in health I would really like it if a couple of other writers could make a posts in the next few weeks.
Thanks
Peter.… Read the rest
Lazy GMing: Inside your NPCs Heads and Hearts
Recently, I played around with random tables for village names, industries, street plans and then a plot hook to give the PCs something to do.
Since then I have been playing with a new web-based toy and I thought you may like it.… Read the rest
Saying No but Meaning Yes
I play in a RMC game where the GM is the type to look for any excuse to punish the characters. Examples from the last session are when we paid passage with a wagon caravan between cities but the player had never asked about paying for food, just travel so the GM sprung it upon us that on the first night everyone else had food and we didn’t.… Read the rest
Navigator RPG
So I have been thinking about my Spacemaster idea from last week. There are a few threads I want to pull together today.
Cepheus vs Whitebox
There are two potential ‘original sources’. The first, as pointed out by Egdcltd was Cepheus.… Read the rest
Thinking About Square One
Unless you have been living in a monastic cell for the last decade you cannot have failed to be aware of the OSR movement. You can be forgiven for not knowing what the R in OSR stands for but that is par for the course.… Read the rest
This week I am reading…
Sagas of Midgard!
Sagas of Midgard is another d100 system. They [Drinking Horn Games] refer to it as a Roll Over system. The core mechanic is nice and simple. The GM sets the target number taking into account any difficulty factors and the players roll the dice and add any bonuses they can muster.… Read the rest
More Lazy GMing: Destination Spaces in My Against the Darkmaster Campaign
So now I have nudged the trajectory of my PCs wholly into an overland journey to the enemy-occupied Dwarven mountain city of Angrothrond, wherein the PCs expect to find armies of Orcs and Trolls, caverns of partially mined angril (a homebrewed substance similar to mithril) and perhaps a massive, inert stone golem and a slumbering Iron Dragon of Morgoth from the First Age of Middle-earth.… Read the rest
Race as Class in Rolemaster Games
The other day I was looking up something in Middle-Earth Role Playing (MERP), and I came across a passage I don’t recall reading before—ever before, even when I aspired to run MERP just last year!
… Read the restElves have certain advantages over the “mortal” races … , and in terms of a fantasy role playing game this is reflected by a restriction on how they assign their stats.
Using the ‘wrong’ skill
I was writing an adventure the other night and one of the challenges requires some combination of navigation, survival, region law, tracking or at the very least general perception.
The characters have an option of paddling up a jungle river with its inherent risks of crocodiles, water snakes and possibly hippopotami.… Read the rest
Looking again at difficulty factors
I have been thinking about difficulty factors this week. My default position is that I am a huge fan of using difficulty factors on skills.
I normally start with a defined difficulty factor so I know a cliff edge is Sheer Folly at the top and in the middle section it is Absurd and finally Very Hard as it levels off slightly.… Read the rest