Recent content by Fuseboy

PbtA games are so broad, mechanically, that it barely makes sense to call it an engine. Vincent Baker calls it a design style, for instance. (Having said that, 2d6+stat, 6-, 7-9, 10+ is obviously common for many of the game-specific mechanics. But some don't have this.) In terms of the GM's...

Mulciber's Flute is the lastest release from Trilemma Adventures. Vulnerable souls are being pulled down into a torturous inferno, where the only relief is the dulcet sound of a wandering fool's flute. Will you take up the call and put out the flames of suffering? Trilemma Adventures are...

What fun! I have no special love for FUDGE, but I'm glad this isn't d20/class/level/xp based, that would make no sense.

Hey thanks, BMaC - these are mine. (I found your post in my blog's referrer listing.) I want to point out that I didn't create this format, it came from the one-page dungeon contest which is currently in its eighth year. Each year they generate hundreds of cool, creative and strange...

Yes, I absolutely agree. The player-level social dynamics absolutely affect the game, so it's useful if there's a back channel for that information to become available to the players. Some groups start with an explicit check-in (which can still be casual), so that if Joe is fuming about his day...

Do you mean worldbuilding resources, or blogs that are building a particular world? Mine falls into the latter category: I'm doing a series of essentially standalone adventures meant to be dropped into your own campaign setting. I'm releasing them as free one- and two-page PDFs, but there's an...

Simon Forster is creating lairs: https://www.patreon.com/theskyfullofdust Tim Shorts is creating micro-adventures: https://www.patreon.com/gothridge I'm creating short adventures: http://patreon.com/adventures

Rachel Walton has written a fair bit about running with larger groups. If players aren't used to explicitly providing the cohesion themselves (e.g. if they're used to the GM dragging them around), there's a temptation to put three 'side quests' as beliefs (goals), which will tear the game apart...

No, not really. I mean, you'd see some mechanical similarities but the overarching turn sequence ("players' turn, GM's turn") was new to Mouse Guard. Chargen, combat, etc. is all quite different.

We do it publicly. There's a certain delightful suspense you get knowing that a situation has this huge potential energetic charge, but not knowing exactly when it will go off. I find actual, real secrets (unless they're about tactical matters) to be slightly alienating when the knowing looks...

I saw a post floating around on G+ a while back - someone ordered one of the high-quality-but-weak ones. He was happy with it, but it was indeed weak: the weapon snapped off during painting and had to be repaired. No idea if he's a butterfingers or if they really are that weak.. but it put me...

I think that's intentional - some hair options are so voluminous (e.g. ponytails) that they're incompatible with helmets. I don't think the models are driven by a physics model - like, it doesn't work out hair/clothing collisions and deform things suitably. I imagine they just have a list of...

I'd love if it the proportions were slightly more human (short legs, huge hands and feet). I know that's common for miniatures, but printed out as a 3" figurine it makes everyone look like hobbits. I'd love more pose variety - contraposto is pretty good, but some of the others look a bit...

On another forum, I wrote about the totally insane rules for personal temperature in the AD&D Wilderness Survival Guide: Okay, these rules seem well intentioned, but I can't see anyone using them .. without software. Even then. 15 types of armor/clothing, each of which affect your personal...