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Actually, the positive attributes are used for +1 Accuracy (non-stacking +1d6 to a d20 check, additional Accuracy rerolls the d6), not a reroll of a d20. These are used outside of fleet combat, during free play (like in diplomacy and managing the fleet) or Uptime checks just before a battle...

Bad assumption. There are a lot more people outside European-descended populations for RPGs to spread to, you know...we do exist. We make games too, and we're making more and more of them. It's not that hard to figure out how to play people from a different culture. James Mendez Hodes wrote...

I saw that one on the shelf of a Singaporean game shop, about 12 years ago! I didn't pick it up though.

The Sword, Part 4 On the Nikolai Bukharin, more reports of the marine battle filter up to the bridge. "Captain, we have the invaders penned up at the main junction in Sector 40, but they still have sections they can retreat to...we'll try to get around them from outside the hull." Aegis...

Caspian's player has been running the ship like he's driving a stolen car. Read on to see how that turns out...

It also depends whether we're talking about making a setting for my home game or for the public. I once created a mining planet set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe where the main local culture was based on the Empire of Abyssinia, for a campaign using a hack of Blades in the Dark (the Blades of...

The Sword, Part 3 "We have fast movers heading towards the Arminius," reports Major Mahayhay. "The Titania's surviving corvettes." It makes sense. With the Hannibal's legionspace nodes corrupted, it can't coordinate any escorts. "Send our wings to intercept, finish those bastards," says...

My answer is going to be different from a lot of people because the countries where I and my family come from are different from the countries where most of the roleplaying market comes from (not to mention where all the big influential media companies are). I would love it if I could bring...

Aha, I didn't play long enough to unlock anything so I misunderstood what it was for. Thanks for clarifying! I totally respect games that don't have actual mechanical advancement (for example Hillfolk or Primetime Adventures)!

The Marvel Heroic Roleplaying system did the same thing with events in a character's arc, but I found it could be kind of restrictive. I do like how Forged in the Dark does it, with XP ticks connected to your playbook's specific triggers, plus triggers connected to your heritage, background...

In Malaysia, just before the pandemic, I heard about one boardgame store trying to recruit DMs to run paid D&D sessions on-store, but the lockdowns threw that plan out the window. I know a few people here are playing in person again, but the shop hasn't tried to revive that project as far as I...

The Sword, Part 2 Round 3. State of the fleets: 2nd Crisis Response Group (Union Navy) Battlegroup Eland (Range 4) Interdiction 1d6+2 UNS-BB Nikolai Bukharin (25 HP), 2 volley tokens on 3x3 Block Short-Spool Cannons, boarding attempts by Tenacity 10 Marines. UNS-CV Shamokin Rising (16 HP)...

Please do let us know how Court of Blades plays! It looks pretty cool.

This is the first I've heard of Kalymba, so I think there was a problem of promoting it enough. For a project with a USD50k goal, the creators need to be aggressively pushing this project! Another Portuguese-to-English adaptation, The Elephant & Macaw Banner, managed to reach its roughly USD10k...

With what you have made already, you have a few options. You can release some tasters as demos, or even release the files for mini-games as their own thing (maybe with some in-world fiction or fluff). You can start raising funds for your in-progress game by selling the open beta pdf (like Gubat...

The Sword, Part 1 Watching the chaos unfold around him, Captain Caspian Var stands still and erect, as if turned to stone, watching coldly as his crew frantically updates their targeting plots, as the ships of the Union and Purview fleets swirl around in their deadly dance. "Sir, the Bukharin...

One more thing about Trauma: in an oversight, neither Blades in the Dark nor its first hack, Scum and Villainy, mention what the Stress limit is, in the rulebook. It's 9. When you mark 9 Stress, you get knocked out of the narrative and gain a level of Trauma. The separate playbook sheets for...

I play things quite fast and loose in Blades in the Dark. The Engagement rolls kicks things off kind of like an initiative roll, except that it just determines how risky the initial situation is. So we introduce some initial obstacle like security checks. But sometimes it's fun to kick things...

Dirtbags Breaching charges blast through a security door leading into the maintenance cavity beneath the Hannibal's drives. "Come out, dirtbags!" shouts the Rittermeer security chief, leading his platoon of armoured troopers in. They stop dead in their tracks. The mercs brought a mech. A small...