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I'm a big fan of this concept. I refer to it with the term Burning Wheel uses: "Let it ride." Basically, if you make a roll (success or failure) the result stands until the circumstances change. It's a way of looking at rolls that I really like. It says that your roll was about your best...

I don't think those two play-style are mutually exclusive. For example, Burning Wheel is explicitly about challenging beliefs, seeing how a person sticks to or abandons what they believe. That requires both values and challenges. The game is all about what you believe, but with challenging...

I'd have to second the Fiasco playset. I've played it twice, once as a has-been band playing high school gyms (think Spinal Tap) and once as a Justin Bieber-alike young star and his entourage. Both times completely nailed the rockstar feel.

Those are some great examples. It does strike me that the flow of information is kind of lopsided. I'm thinking about the rules as a big block on the left and the fiction as a big cloud on the right. We can draw lines between them when one influences the other. I see a lot of lines from the...

Maybe offer to run something different, in a system that won't support that kind of play? That way you're offering a solution, and you can phrase it as "letting the DM take a break" or something. Maybe offer it for just a session, like a filler, and hopefully people will have fun and latch onto...

Sorry 'bout that. Didn't even think about myself as a "publisher," but good call.

I know there's been a few people mentioning Dungeon World around here, so I figured I'd stop by and point out that there's a new version available, along with a lot of other news. We've launched the Dungeon World Adventurer's Guild, announced an upcoming print version, and generally laid out...

Dungeon World was mentioned earlier, and while I think you'd enjoy it, it's not generic as such. Like chaochou mentions, Apocalypse World and its hacks are designed around getting the feeling of a genre through the rules. That doesn't mean there's a setting, it just means that using Dungeon...

I've been working on a little rules plugin that attempts to make magic a little more magical. Seems like magic in books and films always has little clauses, where a blood mage's spells hit a little less against those that refuse to spill blood, or something like that. So I wrote up some rules...

Wow, first time in the forums in a LONG time, and I find this. At work now, but I'll see about some paypal help later. I'm also going to shoot you a PM, I've got some leads on jobs you might be interested in.

Good luck to everyone! Been a long time since I read one of these. :)

Yeah, Deigh is definately closer to Hero then Fated, but I wanted to stretch a bit to see what archtypes we could cover.

Well, I actually think it's pretty cool, but I couldn't find anything to post about it... I guess my concern would be that our group wouldn't fill many archtypes... I mean, at this point we've got a lot of characters that fit Hero, and maybe a couple that fit Fated (Deigh?) Oracle (Oceas?) and...

Idon't really have any preference on races. There are lots of wacky third-party OGL races, but I think the core races cover most of what you need. Heck, with the broad choices in classes, especially once you hit PrCs and OGL classes, you could easily enough get by with a party entirely of...

I like the no class skills rule. Maybe it's just because Deigh gets a ton of skill points, but it does allow some branching out. I guess most of the time it doesn't make a big difference, but I think the option of doing what you want with skill points is great, and I've yet to see it have any...

Yeah, but my 3 ranks in "Yo Mamma Jokes" should get plenty of use.

OOOoooooh, Longbow sounds like a good idea. Deigh will happily pay for a longbow so he can help out from the wall. He should actually be pretty good with it... heck, depending on price, he might even be willing to pay for a Masterwork Composite (+2) Longbow, so he can take advantage of his +2...

The worst of my semester is over! Anyway, Deigh is all for staying and fighting, in the immediate future. As for the time in between, Deigh has been in the complex for a while, any chance he might be able to get a magic item made? he has some cash at this point... For the future, I'd say...

I think I'll be home by the 17th. but this Friday is definite.

Yeah, that's the downside to living in Socorro. Albuquerque, Las Cruces, even Belen or Las Lunas, there would be a tire availble. Socorro, no way. Ugh. Small towns do have downsides.