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Rowan, Rook, and Decard have just launched a campaign on Backerkit for Dagger in the Heart, a sandbox campaign for the Heart RPG. It's written by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan with art by Sar Cousins. It looks to be an interesting addition to the Heart library. Dagger in the Heart I figured I'd post...

This exchange above led to the following moderation: Which feels like an incredibly misplaced post. It assumes a level of bad faith on my part that I’ve seen moderators tell others should be avoided. It was a genuine question, and I feel that was obvious from the entirety of the exchange...

I recently came across this video in a couple of gaming blogs that I read. I found it interesting, well-produced, and insightful, so I figured I'd share it here. Story Machines Vol. 1 I'm curious what people think. The relationship of RPGs and stories has always been the subject for debate...

I was reading the latest newsletter by comic writer and now RPG designer Kieron Gillen, and he was discussing gaming advice. It’s mostly comics related, but there’s a good chunk devoted to gaming. Here’s a link to his newsletter: Kieron Gillen’s Newsletter He mentions how most gaming advice is...

I just received the pdf for this game, having backed it on Kickstarter. It’s now available for preorder. DIE: The Roleplaying Game It’s based on the comic of the same name and by the same creators, Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans, which I’d say is just about required reading for anyone at...

Cities in RPGs 1- Doskvol I subscribe to the Indie RPG Newsletter. It’s a good weekly read, with links to other interesting articles, podcasts, and so on. The author, Thomas Manuel, has decided to do a series that focuses on cities in RPGs. The first (determined by votes from his readers) is...

Die RPG Kickstarter This went live today, and has already funded! It’s based on the comic book by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans, which I’d recommend to anyone on this site. Just a great comic that involves so much RPG history and examines why we game and how it affects us. Kieron Gillen...

So for Christmas, my wife picked me up a copy of Thousand Year Old Vampire by Tim Hutchings. It’s a kind of solo- storytelling RPG of sorts. It’s got some really interesting game mechanics that involve replacing old memories with new ones as the vampire gets older and older. Less and less of its...

So after a year and a half of only playing online, my group and I just started a face to face campaign of Spire: The City Must Fall (by Grant Howitt & Christopher Taylor of Rowan, Rook, & Decard) so I figured I'd start a thread on it. I'll post some thoughts on setting and on the system, and...

So there was another thread about RPGs that people hate, and the topic turned to hit points. This got me thinking about the games I've played, and how they handle tracking damage to characters, and the effects (or lack thereof) of that damage. So I didn't want to continue derailing that thread...

DIE is a comic book written by Kieron Gillen and illustrated by Stephanie Hans. It's a new take on the concept of RPG players being transported to the fictional world of their game, much like the D&D cartoon of old. As teenagers in the 1990s, a group of 6 friends vanish into the game, and 5...

I was thinking about how to possibly make 5E a bit more dangerous as it relates to PC death. I think I came up with a decent option. I’ve not yet tried it in play, but I wanted to run it by folks here for feedback, suggested changes, and unnecessarily harsh criticism! We start by removing...

This poll is inspired by the many, many threads that have brought up (or been hijacked by) discussions on the use of Feats and their impact on game balance, and the design intention of the 5E developers. Many see Feats as being a great source of options for a PC, and a great way to...

Matt Colville’s Strongholds and Followers So the PDF for the record breaking Kickstarter project is available now to backers and preorders. I’ve downloaded my copy and begun to peruse it. I haven’t read a lot of it on detail yet, just skimmed a good amount and read a few sections that caught my...

I jumped into this thread for some white room analysis and was ready to start shouting “SUBOPTIMAL!!!!” But it appears I was way off. Good to see traffic is growing. Seems like another good sign for the hobby.

Mine does, although so far we haven't actually used any, other than a couple of minor tweaks to the core material for flavor's sake. A few items were brought up and discussed and we said we'd try them out, but then they were never followed up on. So although right now everything in our game is...

Interesting. A bit of a departure from depictions in earlier editions. Much more nature oriented...seems they're playing up the fey aspect based on the Celtic origins of the race.