Recent content by Thondor

Seems pretty similar yeah. The Revised books themselves suggest using the existing ACKS adventures from the prior edition several times (in the Judges Journal). We still have some of the fancy gold-foil covers and judges screens available through Compose Dream Games (and the PDFs too of...

Designer of Simple Superheroes #0 here. I'm currently running sessions of the in-development variant Supervillains Unleashed. As many designers do . . . I have opinions about what makes a supers game great. One is rather strong and isn't what some here say they want: heroes from different...

As you describe what you are doing, you are primarily using Event List (or Scenario). That's how I define it anyway in this post Alternatives to map-and-key As for the "best interests" which I generalized to Conflict Agendas, this is something that the players actively create in play. Games...

Because that's what narrativist mechanics do. They let player's directly manipulate the story in a way that only the GM normally can. Lot's of people get tripped up on this thinking that "immersive" = narrative and for many people the meta nature of narrativist mechanics takes them out of...

Here’s the types I think we’ve covered so far: Map-and-key Draw a map, fill it with content. Where the players go, there is where the game goes. covered in OP Event List (or Scenario) May have a time line, may be partially location based, can activate based on player actions or NPC...

I think they did. Implicitly if not explicitly in the OP. Alright so it seems like the "best interests" that Permerton is talking about could be generalized, because there do seem to be a number of games that tend to structure themselves this way. I think this tends to harken to more "drama"...

In a discussions like this that essentially asks the question "what are some uncommon / lesser known ways of doing X?" What exactly is the point of emphasizing the most common game? What's the point of weighing it so high? The whole point is to talk about other approaches and methods. In this...

Interesting topic Permerton. As someone who runs a lot of Superhero games, and never includes maps in my prep or scenario design, this is an interesting topic. Prep and adventures for this is usually a number of possible events, some tied to specific locations, some not, and a few key...

I've seen some mechanic's that specifically represent/gameify tension in RPGs: Dread's Jenga Tower -- you pull when you need to do something it falls, you probably die, and the tension resets for everyone else. This one didn't work particularly well for me when I got to play it, but it is...

I hope many folks make it out to their local game store! I also feel I should point out that we have a free section on our Marketplace. 20 Titles are here: Free Products (Canada site) And Free Products (UK site) You can also chose to "tip the creator" for most of these. My own "Dungeons...

It doesn't deliver Firefly in terms of the feel of the tech level, but I default to Free Spacer these days (for a touch point Dark Matter TV series might be better). But it really does the feel of negotiating contracts really well, and then pulling off the jobs. Plus it has a neat backdrop of...

Father’s Day Flash Sale today and tomorrow! (Sunday and Monday) Five titles are 50% off in PDF and 15% off in print for Father's day via Compose Dream Games. Head to either our Canadian marketplace or our British site: the affected titles are currently in the “Featured” section. Bettin’...

It was great to meet @Morrus and Jess at UKGE this year! I've done UKGE for the last three years as a vendor (representing a multitude of Canadian publishers as Compose Dream Games) and once back in 2016 right after my first game Simple Superheroes came out. It was certainly huge this year. In...

Got one of the transparent/clear decks myself for use (mostly) for my one shot GMfull game God-Killer Prophecy. It requires two decks of cards, one for the Dark God and one for the heroes to share -- it helps if one of the deck is pretty obviously different. I just saw it at a Canadian Tire and...

I recently released an Alpha playkit of Fabrication: A game that makes games It's maybe a little past a toolkit game. It is a game design game, that can help you pick all sorts of base assumptions (like number of players and how you divide authority) as well as construct and play-test wildly...