Recent content by Fenris-77

I'm going to say this at the risk of pissing you off, the truth, or value, of solving a mystery in an RPG has very little to do with solving one in real life. Two very different things IMO.

I think, no offense, that you're missing the point. The extent to which a given RPG is 'complete' is neither, IMO, obvious nor easy to assess.

I do like distressed textures.

Yeah. Sigh. I liked the way it looked, but my suspicions are borne out by my asking the audience. Humbug. Maybe something nested.

I love Torchbearer in all its iterations, but Luke and Thor aren't above overcomplication in places.

No, there's no excuses here, you are a HUGE party pooper sir. A pooper of parties, and you should feel bad. :)

I think that there is an ongoing issue in how people interpret and talk about RPGs that hits on this very issue - the extent to which it's possible or even desirable for an RPG to simulate in any detailed way the thing it trying to represent in play. I think in the case of mysteries and police...

Can you be more specific about what you want these questions to produce? I ask because some game use the background questions to help build out implied setting and others are strictly for PC background. In terms of questions leading to bonds between players are looking for something that's...

I'd be lying if I said that hadn't occurred to me, but it's not actually that close to the thing we shall not name.

Swarm of Butterflies.

I wasn't sure where to post this, but since I mostly design SD books I'll post it here. I'm working on a new logo for D-77 Games. I wanted something cleaner than the one I'm using currently. So far these are the three leading candidates:

Very few people use the beautiful and magnificently designed Inspiration rules for 5E. Degenerate play!

This is why all my designs use 13 or 14pt easy-to-read body font. It won't solve everyone's issues in terms of reading dead tree copies at the table, but it does help a lot. I don't find it cramps my style too much in terms of design, but it certainly doesn't minimize page count. That said, in...