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I like challenging games and the bulk if not entirety of my TTRPG-related design work this year was dedicated to making games that involve a test of skill. Swashbuckling! revolves around testing players' and GM's ability to improvise witty insults on the spot, and in Inner Sanctum whoever is...

This was me when I ran PF1 as part of a challenge. I kept second-guessing myself: "is this rule actually from pathfinder, or 3E, or 3.5e or 5.e or was it a houserule?"

I apologize for not reading ten-odd pages of discussion, but anyway. re: Writer's room As much as I like writer's room, the main reason I love PbtA in general and Apocalypse World specifically as much as I do is because you don't need writer's room there. You can and should think like the...

I find the notion that the character doesn't know whether they are willing to follow up on their threat before said threat is made pretty silly.

It was intended as a way to "solve" the challenge with security codes. but I probably should've emphasized it more clearly And I realized too late that Lenin being a mushroom-radiowave hybrid is way too obscure of a reference. @Iron Sky this was a nice match! I really liked wall-breaking...

Speaking of burgers, pineapple burgers taste sooo good, and works really well with hot peppers First, pineapple burns your mouth with acid, and then you basically apply jalapenos to the wound, it's awesome

I would argue GM being just one person has a distinct advantage in centralized control, because they can make plans and deliberately create a favorable situation for unit A with unit B without revealing any of it out loud. I've played a lot of paired Warhammer 40k tournaments where two people...

shoot I forgot to include the ingredients, see the next post

I think the link leads to a wrong URL

As someone who has design as their main hobby and TTRPGs as a secondary one, I both agree and I don't. Yes, everyone can make games, but I feel like you either a making a game or playing one. Design requires iteration, and it's hard to iterate in an ongoing game, and if everyone is there to...

Sure, it'll work!

Due to timezone shennanigans, Nov 7 6PM is Nov 8 5AM for me, and I'll be sorta busy. I can manage if it's a big deal, but any other day will be preferable.

Either day works for me

I'm free until November 8th

They are not mutually exclusive, really. First, if character becomes noticeably stronger at their old thing, then the same challenge isn't the same anymore, because now they have new ways of approaching it, thus basically destroying all my enjoyment derived from perfecting it. (and if they...

I think I will!

I'm mostly busy making vidyagames, as you might see on my Itch, so I don't really have much time to do any TTRPG-related work and/or thinking, but here's some: While working on my game, I recently had an epiphany: reward for beating a challenge should never boost your ability to beat similar...

I'm pretty much the opposite and like post apocalypse to be fairly mundane and my beloved Apocalypse World with its Psychic Maelstorm is pushing the envelope on my preferred amount of fantastical. I also love Nuclear Winter as a setting, and wish there were more games explicitly build around...

While it is pretty tongue-in-cheek, seriously: in a week between the previous session and this one, anything other than Super Important Details (tm) will just evaporate from memory, to be replaced with stuff like cat gifs, conversations with friends, work, art projects and anxiety over the...