Following on from the Documenting the Occulted Archaeology of the World thread, we started our Excession Design doc
So far, it's mostly happening on the discord but I'll report back here when we have decided things.
This week, we are seeing what Attributes and Skills would be suitable.
First...
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So, I'm not understanding how the games themselves are OSR and not just the scenarios. I mean, I've always played everything sandbox, I do lean into the rule of cool but that includes character death and sacrifice. In many cases the story is made by linking the dots...
The new 10-episode drama will be created by Graham Roland and JD Dillard as a co-production between Skydance Television and Anonymous Content. "Neuromancer" will also be produced by Drake's DreamCrew Entertainment, with Roland serving as show runner and Dillard set to direct the pilot episode...
We've just begun playtesting for The 23rd Letter, 3rd Edition.
We've converted to the Step Dice version of the Year Zero Engine and at the moment it's all wall-of-text while we figure out what art we will commission. The first two editions of The 23rd Letter had absolutely no art. Nothing. Just...
Now, someone can do this for Indiana Jones but my gripe today is The Witcher (as mentioned on Our Discord). I would invite anyone to post games which were ruined by their systems and we can work together to fix them.
The Promise: Play in the world of the witcher as a deadly fighter, a powerful...
So, chatting with the very sharp @Picaroon Jack and 'Dragons'.
Reign of Fire was a post-apocalyptic movie with Christian Bale, Matthew McConaghy, Isabella Scorupco and that Scottish Fellow. It concerned the waking of Dragons in the modern day and how they decimated the Earth.
So, Dragons. What...
There's a discussion on TBP. I think the system is a little backwards and I'm not struck on Custom Dice...but...
https://resources.cmon.com/AC-RPG-Quickstart.pdf
There's a chat on one of the the forum about creating your own fantasy world. I'd been playing with the idea of a Step Dice YZE Fantasy heartbreaker for a while.
I've hit on the idea of a **shardworld**. Essentially a **flatworld** with on top of soul and rock, floating in an aether, with...
OK, I don't remember where I saw this but hot damn I'd been looking at military folks in fantasy games for a while now (I was actually planning a post-WW2 military invasion of Narnia)
This is inspired by The Long Stair thread on TBP I guess. But it's Twilight 2000 meets Forbidden Lands
I'd...
I made a Vampires in YZE "dark urban fantasy" starter on DTRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/467575/ExSanguine--Modern-Vampirs
Just some rules for a gritty, lethal Vampirs game.
Just some stuff I've been working on and implied on the Spy Games thread:
The idea is a YZE game, probably leaning off Twilight 2000 as it's medium-crunch, good for improv and pretty lethal. So we ain't talking about James Bond here.
There are four 'archetypes' that I have in mind for people...
Starting this thread as a partial design doc for a YZE-Step version of a Urban Fantasy game. Someone mentioned it on TBP as something they'd like so I thought I'd write down some of the things in my head.
Step Dice version (I really don't like the swingyness of the dice pool version. Played...
Idly reading a review of The Forever War (which I struggled reading years ago) and it mentioned Starship Troopers. Now, you can't mention Starship Troopers without someone going on about how Heinlein was a fascist and a pawn of the military-industrial complex and that may be true, but it's just...
I was thinking about this because of where we are in a current campaign and some of the other writing I'm doing. One campaign is a series of thing happening. It reduces it to a dungeon bash. A new threat every 4 weeks. If there is story structure, it's lost on me. Maybe the Great Evil is...
For those who aren't aware. Planetary is awesome. A small team of superpowered operatives are tasked by an organisation to uncover some of the hidden wonders of the world. Sometimes these are natural phenomena, sometimes these are the result of the machinations of others.
As the title says...
Ok, folks I'm looking for inspiration here.
I just heard back that the Hammerheads background (which is part of the Cortex Primer) will not get a full release and this has me a little bummed out. So I thought, why not develop my own with the depth that I want. And yeah this is a riff on...
Earlier this week I released Micro2K.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/457118
It’s a mini ruleset of the Year Zero Engine Step Dice version. Available for free on DTRPG. Because I don’t think the Step Dice version gets enough love.
And if anyone wants an editable file to add to their...
OK, this is a little bit of a hack of Twilight 2000 4th Edition
First, we take some of the stats from Dishonoured (2d20) and paste them in to represent the normal attributes.
Then we add the same number of "skills"
Then we re-work the Traits system and a basic Lifepath where each term provides...
I can't find the post now and it's not that relevant but I was wondering about mechanics that allowed the production of sports games results.
So, picture if you will....
Players are a sports team - they're the Management Team, the Players, and the Support Staff. The outcome of a weekly sports...
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