Recent content by Piperken

I've looked a little at this too; my feeling is that you'd need to use it as your base system for your players (class, spells and combat system). Some people who've been discussing their games have mentioned they like the 3 action economy and emphasis on reactions. Monsters wouldn't be too...

Kinds of video games (puzzle, simulator, fps, rts, arpg etc and more recently soulslike/roguelike/roguelites) : Kinds of TTRPGs (5e D&D, OSR, PbtA, GMless/solo, Storygames) feels more closely aligned than above.

I am OK thus far, but two other immediate participants were eliminated on 1 Dec!

Most of the time a crit fail/crit success results in a very favorable or very unfavorable occurrence in the fiction. One time a player used a less than ideal weapon (sword) to punch through a wood wall. They rolled a crit fail; their weapon went through, got stuck past their wrist. They had to...

Defining Interactivity (from alldeadgenerations) is a post that's part of an ongoing series primarily on dungeon design, but this particular entry was focused on keying so that surroundings become more interactive. Many of the points people previously brought up as being constructively helpful...

You'll get there. Revising is where most stuff happens!

People know a lot about mythological creatures! I like unicorn (and its cousin, 麒麟). A close second would be Tomte (Nisse).

Motion Picture just for Jerry Goldsmith's Klingon Battle... shivers hearing that in the theater.

FWIW, I lean towards slot systems and I like Mausritter's inventory system; it's among the best developments that came out of that game, and practically a foundation in the OSR space from what I gather.

I understand the sentiment of weirdness you describe in terms of this as a mechanic; however, Liminal Horror has an entirely different intent in design (and context, it's explicitly horror) than some of the fantasy systems that do the same, like Cairn or Mausritter. As an example, take the...

While I favor published modules and adventures that keep an eye to presentation and information design in mind, I feel like there is benefit when modules use a more prose/pleasure-to-read approach for some parts. Sometimes that can be when you have factions or organizations that the party...

Reading these descriptions, if it's as great as you are intending, I can imagine how challenging it might be just to navigate through the space a horde that size occupies.

Some mentioned 1E Tiamat treasure table, but when I read this, my first thought was to go look at the kinds of treasure each of the chromatic dragon types would tend to prefer; then go overboard because it's Tiamat. Maybe Tiamat favors different kinds of her gifted treasures depending on the...

How do you feel about supply die (e.g. rations or ammunition), quantum equipment/gear, or a pip system (Mausritter)?

I'd echo these questions also go to what the exploration is for, and what things it could be about. There are some games I have come across with heavy exploration, and they deliberately structure their reward system (e.g. At the end of the session, ask yourself the following questions: Did you...