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February 1983. As we step into a new year of gaming Ian Livingstone wonders what might come next. With Treasure Trap starting (or at...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Lately, my Saturday afternoons at the local library have become the third pillar of a massive...

I don't remember any city supplements (though I remember we had a Ptolus campaign, but I was a player once). What I do remember ins the...

Yes, 100%. Unrelated to a ttrpg, but totally related to Shirow, would love an Appleseed miniatures game.

Having read just the info linked here, I'm having trouble finding good reasons for the outrage. The "torture" is a "DC 4 intimidation...

Not yet, no. I am aware that Draw Steel does things fairly differently from 4e, such as dropping binary to-hit rolls in favor of a...

The other issue is early D&D felt like it was "roll to kill" rather than "roll to hit" making combat a lot more exciting. Nothing bores...

I kinda like bucket of dice systems, even though I don't much like needing to roll dozens of dice. But such a system gets you scaled...

after the Sworn Soldier series, I couldn't get enough of Kingfisher so I've read "The Hollow Places" The characters are not as good as...

I have designed something similar but not exactly... A benefit of system like this is, is you can add things (proficiency, ADV, magical...

As a GM, I prefer systems where I'm not required to set the difficulty of a task of players according to some arbitrary number of...

I really like die pool systems. Adding and subtracting dice is nice tactile way to handle modifiers. Better yet, I like die pool systems...

I am quite torn - I love the simplicity of D20 against fixed DC (and ADV - DISADV). But I also love the systems of Ironsworn or...

Blades in the Dark’s Doskvol is my top tier example of usable city. I think it’s the way it organizes districts and then gives each a...