house rules

So, I was thinking about things you can loot from other systems and apply it to your own game. Sometimes they may need some tweaking but are pretty recognizable as the same thing. Examples that I’ve used: 13th age style backgrounds, where the “skill” is “fastest runner in my home village” with...

It's a pretty solid system for what it does, pretty 'old school' I guess but okay. I'm going to run a small game with some friend just because its that year and I'm planning on using it for a Solo role-playing experiment too when I work up the nerve. Does anyone have House rules they've adopted...

For my upcoming session run for a bunch of pure RPG novices (see this thread), I cobbled together some simple rules from a previous simplified ruleset, with a distinct fantasy emphasis. I'm calling it Fantasy Lark (the original game is called Lark). They're a work-in-progress, and you can see...

So, the OTU has PCs dealing with the secrets of the Ancients and even the Primordials from time to time, but nary a word is said as to how that really affects a character's sanity, let alone their understanding of how (and why) humans were scattered throughout the stars (as well as why the...