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13 Age EE playtest is ongoing. Tokyo: Otherscape is what happens when Cyberpunk corps chew and digest City of Mist. The app test is taking place at Son of Oak Discord. Necrobiotic is a Bioshock with City of Necromancers vibes. And these are my favorites.

5E D&D is about taking low-chance high-risk actions with characters padded with hit points against vagaries of fate. Melee is being personal, magic is being in control, while rogues are for Russian roulette afficionados. OSR systems is very open about its need to bribe, cajole or blackmail a GM...

Edinburgh Horrors system premise is quite fascinating. I am somewhat bored with 5E stuff (sorry 1889), so why not try some Tarot-based system?

Page 35: "relationship mechanic lets you roll one d6 per point invested in a relationship when you’re trying to leverage your connection to the icon" So, I assume that the leveraging one's connection means trying to roll d6s trying to get the story to work in your direction.

Icon mechanics start at page 187. When you create your character, you gain select three icons you're connected to. At the beginning of each day, you roll for your icons to find out which icon you can call upon on that day. Unused calls disappear at the end of the day. When you call upon an...

(no spoilers) As per my reading of the Playtest Package, here's a minimalist character sheet template made in Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L5gWO2AWi0wGM01yO-ws9nW0nMQ2VNAlnChOrHK4gRI/edit?usp=sharing It works in any modern browser (just make sure to make a copy - access is...

There is a lovely Designer sidebar on this, where Rob and Jonathan spar on the very subject (p. 157). There is Rob's alternative proposal on p. 298. Since I do not know what exactly was your issue with recharge mechanic, and since I am unsure what I am allowed to share (Rob is very open about...

13th Age playtest package is up. It's pretty much a full book, so digesting it will take time regardless of helpful highlights. Loving it so far, though admittedly I am biased in favor of 13th Age.

A Good Uncle: a member of character's family, a helpful and generally nice person. Nastier variant: a Loving Parent. I think everyone knows where this leads... Twisting the screw further: They get to save the protagonist's life along the way further putting the PC in the state of emotional debt...

That's what they say. That's not what they show in the film. I watched the same scene. Check what happened later, after the initial deployment: Screaming and charging? Yep. Folks, I realize I am arguing common sense against comic fans on a fantasy gaming portal forum, but please, do not...

Comic logic works for supers, whose capabilities should exceed those of humans with firearms. At the same time in Wakanda we have people charging aliens with spears in their hands. This is, to my nasty suspicious mind, like saying that a writer simply is unable to imagine a technologically...

I love (sarcasm warning) how they still persist in using spears. Still, maybe one day their meager film budget will allow the cost of a military consultant versed in history of arms.

Is there a talk how one could use another time-traveling Time Lord in TARDIS? The canon implies multiple entities of the sort, though in the series we have, IIRC, the Doctor and the Master. The reason I ask is that I would prefer to avoid breaching the series continuity, and, frankly, the most...

There are three ways that immediately sprang to my mind: 1. Tales of Xadia method: Dedicate a Distinction in the following way: <adjective>+<magic vocation> (for example, Hot-headed Sun Mage). Select one specialty (magic type) and assign a rating to it. Assign a rating to an associated Asset...

The process of generating characters depends on a particulars of a setting: 1. Establish list of trait sets applicable to characters in your setting. For example, if I were to run an investigative horror campaign Call of Cortex, I could pick the following: attributes: Physical, Mental, Social...

Let me point you in the direction of the resources: 1. Welcome to the world of Cortex: Cortex Tabletop Roleplaying Game | Fandom Tabletop Note the Hammerheads Spotlight. In the Explore the Rules section there is a walkthru through basic concepts. 2. A fan made miniguide to create a setting...

INTO THE ODD: The art in pursuit of sensible minimalism Into the Odd: brutal functionality THE SYSTEM Three stats: STRength, DEXterity and WILL, 3d6 each. Rolling low means chance for better equipment, special abilities and more standard equipment. Roll max and you are poorly equipped and...

It is a matter of both cultural perspective and available education. If you have a deeply spiritual society, with an education system that supports spiritual approach to the way the world works, you will get shamans or spirit mediums or spirit priests or spirit doctors. As for barbarians...

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