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It's fascinating seeing the outpouring of suport for them after 20 years. I remember how much they were reviled when the original game came out in 1999.

To be clear, the way Danger works in the rules is like a ticking clock mechanic. My suggestion of a doom pool was more of an illustration of my preferences for something like this.

The modern World of Darkness is not very concerned with tradition. It blew up much of the setting of Vampire: The Masquerade to redefine it for a modern age. It remixed the Clans to better fit some of these newer ideas, such as the death-obsessed Hecata. It also surprised many fans when it...

Folks involved with pitches have told me such as well.

It’s hard to believe the Harry Potter series is 25 years old. It’s harder to believe that there hasn't been an official RPG in that time, though various industry stories have noted that plenty of companies have tried. A few games have tried to corner the magic school RPG market recently. Kids on...

The mechanics and explanations are cleaned up. Now if you roll doubles that counts as a crit fail/success, depending on how your action die rolls. It feels like the suffer moves are expanded and detailed. It's focused on space with sector building like Traveller or SWN. Part of the upgrade...

If there’s one campaign setup as classic as wandering fantasy heroes looting dungeons, it's space scoundrels flying from planet to planet getting into trouble. From Traveller to Star Wars to Firefly and beyond, there’s just something alluring about standing on the deck of a beat up spaceship...

The cult is an important part of the Cthulhu Mythos mystery ecology, Cultists leave the clues that the investigators find to figure out what’s going on. They provide the soft resistance that can be defeated. Cthulhu may be immortal and powerful but the cults can be stopped providing one more day...

I have a hit or miss relationship with tie-in materials. On the one hand, Dragonlance was my first fantasy series before Lord of the Rings and because of that I am unbelievably excited for the new books coming out this year. On the other hand, as much as I love Vampire The Masquerade, I found...

The key is the carrot vs. the stick approach. If you do the thing the person wants by spending a string, you get XP. You can still refuse if you are not into the idea of flirting with that character.

Between the original Thirsty Sword Lesbians Kickstarter and the one for Advanced Lovers & Lesbians, Evil Hat raised about 395k for these books. The AL&L Kickstarter number is even more impressive because everyone who backed the original already had the PDF. That's nearly 100k of folks who came...

Heartstrings are openly borrowed from Monsterhearts. There's also a bit of Masks and other PbtA games in here. My interview with April Kit Walsh talks about her design influences openly.

Included with the basic moves are Heartstring moves. Entice is the flirt move that gets Strings on a character, which can then be spent to try to get them to do what you want in exchange for XP or affect their roles. Yes, you can flirt with a bad guy just to fluster them. Figure Out A Person...

For a variety of reasons, romance is a challenge in many tabletop RPGs. While discussing how a character simultaneously eviscerates and decapitates a Big Bad Evil guy comes naturally to many, fewer people feel comfortable playing out love and romance scenes with their friends. That’s one of the...