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I’ve got a kickstarter running for a small, simple story-game called Love & Barbed Wire. It’s a letter-writing game for two players, taking the roles of a soldier in the trenches and their loved one back home respectively. It can be played together in person, or over zoom*. It can also be...

Solid article - some things I recognise from my previous Kickstarters and some new stuff that I’ll bear in mind for my next one! To date I haven’t tried Backerkit because my games are smaller fry - getting up to 200 backers or so typically. A question about your After Effects ad - was the...

To add a couple of thoughts from my experience on the ”new user” thing. So I’ve played D&D for a long, long time. From 1975 or so until 2010, so I’ve been through everything from OD&D to 4e with every kind of house-ruled thingies in between. I bought the 5e rules when they came out, read them...

As you might guess from my handle here, I’m Alex of Plane Sailing Games, and I’m delighted to be one of the nominees for “Best Game”. If you’d like to find out a little more about the game, the subject matter and the incredibly brave women who inspired it, I’ve got a whole bunch of resources on...

The recent ‘yellow king’ RPG from Pelgrane has an interesting single roll to handle conflicts involving multiple participants. I‘ve not played it, but it looks interesting

Going in the other direction, I did once use Runequest to run a very successful set of Eberron games - combat is more crunchy than D&D as you have attacks and parries, and armour defending against damage, but it works very well for a gritty game with pervasive low level magic. You have to do a...

Fate Core would probably be a good alternative, although it is very different in mechanics from D&D it should be quite practical to run Ebberon or other D&D settings with it. No classes, but there are skills, and the aspects is a big part of describing characters and making combats more dynamic...

I couldn’t help remembering that when the Romulans were first introduced in TOS, they specifically had a weapon which annihilated planet side installations (and which the enterprise could only resist by running away from it as fast as possible). In any RPG scenario where the Romulans were...

FWIW I wanted to do something similar to make space combat interesting in my RPG (Starguild: Space Opera Noir) and I went for distinct bridge positions (pilot, navigator, engineer, gunner, captain) and each of those bridge positions had a number of things they could do each combat round. The...

Always felt weird to me in 4e that Stinking Cloud was guaranteed to kill mooks, but fireball wasn’t - every 1hp mook that saved survived. If I’d have been in charge I’d have reversed the intent there :)

I ran one dungeon with 5ft wide corridors and small rooms. One fireball affected every single monster in the dungeon and all the party. I loved cubic feet!

I have to say that was a whole load of fun. But how can it be so long ago?

On the one hand, this sounds a little like trying to solve the N-Body problem! n-body problem - Wikipedia But for practical purposes for your game, this is a just a matter of plot, no? In the Dark Crystal, it was convenient to have the movie set at the point approaching the Great Conjunction...

Looks nice, works quickly! Good job!

Simon Burley is a convention-going-machine in the UK, and he writes things up here RPGs for All

I’m sure that one of the 3E sourcebooks had a ‘rage mage’ in it...

Also ending this week is my game A Cool and Lonely Courage. Fully funded and heading for a stretch goal, it has simple rules to tell emotionally complex stories about the women spies of the SOE in occupied France in World War II. Why not take a look...

Metamorphosis Alpha was the first game I ever purchased (from a small game shop in a backstreet in London in December 1976!). I needed to learn how to draw ellipses for mapping, and my father showed me how to draw a perfect ellipse with just a ruler!

Metamorphosis Alpha was the first game I ever purchased (from a small game shop in a backstreet in London in December 1976!). I needed to learn how to draw ellipses for mapping, and my father showed me how to draw a perfect ellipse with just a ruler!