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So, TL;DR, I have a lot of thoughts and I'm going to share them. If you like, you can peruse the attached docs though don't expect anything you can play or even necessarily grok. These are just some interesting things I've been putting together that will help give context to my game, whilst also...

Over a year ago, I discussed and laid out the foundation of what I considered to be my white whale: a true exploration system. Something that wasn't merely about the rote mechanics of getting from one interesting part of the game to the next, but something that was interesting in its own right...

Since the beginning, going all the way back to Braunstein, roleplaying games (RPGs) have had at their core, most often unintentionally, an improv game. Why this is is pretty simple to understand: if the game allows an open ended possibility space, its fundamentally incorporating improv. Its that...

Design 'Problem': What we're looking to achieve is a grounded "GunFu" style of combat, emulating the style of fight choreography made popular by the John Wick franchise, with realistic gunplay bombastically and coolly blended with martial arts. This will be accomplished by adapting the systems...

To start, it should be known this is the current cumulation of whats nearly a year of on and off iteration, though in this iteration I have not yet had a chance to put it front of anyone other than myself. Skip to below the ==== line if you're not interested and reading through how I thought...

How important do you think it is that a game avoids the Minigame Problem? This is a problem I would think is best exemplified by the common critique of current DND that combat feels like a separate game from the rest of the play experience. Ergo, a minigame. Whether or not this is a strictly...

Skip to the attached rules if you don't want to read my musings. The martial/magic doc cuts out what I'm talking about, but I also threw in the full CombatDoc for those that want to chew on it or just see how different things work. Keep in mind this is a development doc. Its only meant to be...

I honestly can't say I care all that much about the suit or the hyperjacked color saturation, but more why this of all things was the way to show off the new Superman. If the biggest issue with Cavill is that his and Snyders take didn't feel like Superman, and this is all supposed to restore...

If one does not want to read through how I think, I'd skip to the .pdfs and let me know what you think. v2 is shorter and goes a bit wilder, but v1 covers the original take. I'd read through both, as they both communicate how the system overall works and what it does at the table in terms of...

TL; DR here is this is a neat system, and I'm looking for a vibe check. So as most know, I've been working on my game for a while, and in support of finally beginning to write actual content for it, I'm cleaning up and integrating updates to my Combat system, including the above update to what...

Recently I've been doing some considerable overhauls of what I've been working on, and I ended up going down a design rabbit hole of sorts, if the name of this topic doesn't make that obvious. This topic is going to go into this idea and where I think its going to go, as it is theorycrafting...

So I'm making this a plus topic, as I just don't have any desire to see the sheer vitriol these kinds of mechanics tend to elicit out of certain people. But anyway, lately I've been thinking through the theory I've been developing for what will become the overall Crafting and Gathering...

Sometimes in game design I'll get an idea and me having the idea feels like this: For example, I've been ruminating on a concept for real time lockpicking, using a whole other dice mechanic I came up with that I call the Sequence Roll as a basis. In a nutshell, the object of the mechanic...

As Im wont to do I found myself mining the depths of the internet for ancient internet discussions about RPGs, and I ended up going down a rabbit hole of a topic regarding social mechanics and how GMs tend to use them alongside improv. Naturally, theres a lot of contention over improv being...

As I'm going to be talking about and mentioning my own game, I want to note Im splitting this off from my mind dump thread as I think this topic, and what I want to say, is much more broadly applicable than just to my own game's design, but I am going to use it to illustrate my thoughts in...

(Note that while Im talking about my game below to illustrate my take on the issue, this is more about game design in general) So what I mean by Ability Implication is the phenomenon (I call it a brain worm) that, by defining a given ability, you are implying that said ability can't be done...

So the Ranger inexplicably brought back a diminished form of terrain specialization, and gave Hunter some of its glory back, but has also fully committed to making literal spells take up an entire level. I am doing an upset. (Mostly because Im not trying to rewrite my own Ranger yet and this...

So lately I've been beset by the urge to talk about my game more and more, and while I am not in a place to release any sort of formal material, I do think it would be a good idea to speak on it still, if only just to get a more diverse set of eyes on what I've been working on for the greater...

Its high time to abandon it. Its dumb and the pearl clutchers can be ignored. The best solutions to fixing the problems with rest involve limiting when they can be used, which in turn just causes a verisimilitude problem. Those obnoxious safe haven rules are awful and is just a flipside of the...

Modify and Create Spell are going to be a nightmare if they survive the playtests.