Search results

Suggesting a third category of horse: In the Shardworld game I'm noodling at, we are deliberately using the Eohippus horse ancestor. https://equineguelph.ca/learn_objects/evolutiontimeline/eohippus.html

It's really harder to see what's popular now. We seldom get sales data other than companies folding due to not enough sales. We can't really separate out sales data from companies who have multiple game lines. We can't trust company forums now, because the discussion of games is now fractured...

This is why I bounced hard off PBTA. The narrative / fiction first is literally that. The narrative is first. What you want to do is second. The moves (and rewards) are there to incentivise behaviour that fits the narrative. No bad thing. Just not my cup of tea.

No, no-one is being forced into playing them but that’s not what was written either. But maybe that was a Move. Hey, I’m looking for a game that’s medium crunch superheroes, maybe with a twist, but I’m not really a PBTA fan. - you should try Masks - you should try Monsterhearts - you’ve...

We are on the cusp. Literally employing infinite monkeys to come up with new playbooks and infinitesimally limited narratives.

Things I've kinda lost track of but enjoyed at the time. DiTV as mentioned. It wasn't maybe for everyone but it was thought provoking in the method. for a while it was hard to get a|state cold city/hot war are still OOP. Sorceror? I've always enjoyed Jared Sorensons books...

Big news from my POV New Laundry Files game on KS that dropped BRP. New Edition of The 23rd Letter coming out Coriolis by Free League has gotten a sequel that is either horrifying fans of The 3rd Horizon or delighting them. Moria for TOR is nearly finished D&D and WotC have never been more...

Being an agent of a god has it's own dangers.....when other gods take an interest. Or if god B is pissed with god A for whatever reason. And these were gods in the same pantheon. Not much is written about when God A from Pantheon 1 encounters God B from Pantheon 2. That also goes for people...

Being an agent of a god has its own dangers. I find that missing in most depictions. There are some quotes about the dangers of mortals being where gods are prone to meddle. Socrates' impiety as a rationalist in a a world filled with bewildered folks who had only legend and story to back up...

Which shows the irony even more in games where religions are actually demonstrably real. Where, like clerics in D&D, religion and religious magic (miracles) are repeatable*. Where the direct action of gods can be felt in miracles and magic. Where you can literally visit them bodily and not...

The trend of releasing Quickstarts at the start of Kickstarters has saved me a fortune. At the very least it's softened the blow from buying the full hardback Deluxe book to just getting the PDF. And sometimes it's put me off entirely.

Surf Cowboys is an unappreciated genre.

Whoosh things change when you're having fun. Re-imagining. Muuuuch smaller shards....though these are maybe too small. That's meant to be a City on the largest one.

The formula we have developed for Excession is ... People (persons, creatures, monster) Places (places that are significant because of the past or the future) Things. (magical objects in the wrong place) One of my favourites is the proposed link between the Philadelphia Experiment and the...

Playing the original, I really liked that we had the Grunts, Jackals, Hunters and Elites as a race of fanatical religious warriors. That they were the sworn enemy of the Flood was also a nice twist. On the whole, I thought it was a pretty compelling universe. Never thought the games managed to...

Sadly “sold out”.

***nods sagely*** That would be cool to read....

Given my recent foray into "Occulted Strangeness", there's a few things. 1) I think all Mythos beasties have been done dirt by Chaosium so I've re-interpreted them. MiGo. Ghouls. Deep Ones. Yithians. Yithians in particular are super-daleks 2) The Azadians and the Affront. One of the main...

It's such an archetype-driven movie, I think it really needs something heavily archetype/role driven I've never made a PBTA inspired game. Anyone want to collaborate on playbooks for it? For fun.

Based on a videogame jam that @godswearhats worked on last year. Infralight is a multi-level exploration game where you have two lights. - under one light you can see the mutant creepy crawlies which eat people - under the other light you can see the movement of the cloaked stealth robots who...