[I wrote this for an RPG forum, then realized how far it veered from the topic. Nonetheless, there's something worth saving here for later use.] Low-prep gaming doesn’t equal Tabula Rasa. I enjoy creating detailed imaginative worlds. In fact I’ve created several that have barely been touched by my gaming group. I also enjoy no/low-prep [...]
Ran another flat one-shot this weekend. If there is going to be an absence at the game table our group plays a one-shot (one-off, one-nighter, what do you call it?). This week I ran a WFRP game. I created two third career characters (A Witch hunter and a Master thief) and intended this to be [...]
Three Primary Attributes Skull describes your intelligence, wit, and memory. Bloode describes your strength, agility, stamina, reflexes and overall health. Grog describes your willpower, courage, and spiritual health. A Derived Attribute, the sum of the three primaries. Salt is how effective your character is. It serves primarily to track a character’s current health. You cannot [...]
I have two three many ongoing projects. But for now I want to focus on two. Both are roleplaying games. They may share a system. . . or not, I haven’t decided. All For Me Grog AFMG is a game of cinematic swashbuckling in the Golden Age of Piracy. It uses a simple and flexible [...]
The first sttep then is deciding on the style of fantasy. I won’t list the styles from the book, just the one(s) that apply to my idea. My idea is a Low Fantasy world with Low Technology mixed in. What does this mean? The way Wiggy uses the terms it means a world without the [...]
In the World Builder Fantasy Toolkit from Pinnacle/Great White Games, author Wiggy Wad-Williams writes “this…toolkit is designed to help you create a unique world from scratch.” He says the reader should “think of the table of contents as a checklist…By starting at the beginning and working through, you’ll have everything you need to help you [...]
[Our gaming group (MartialArtsMike, Pedagogue, Oldschool, Zippy, and LostScotsman) rotate the GMing duties in a regulated manner. Since each one of us wants to run a game we set a term limit on the number of sessions each GM has to run. My turn just ended.] Our last of three pirate sessions coincided with my [...]
The past two weeks, as I wrap up my turn in the GMs chair, we’ve played a home-brewed game of Pirates. The guys started out being marooned on an island, found a sloop, got revenge on their marooners and headed for the Carolina coast. The next week they pirated 3 plantations. I have been having [...]
And not one of those new fangled computer gamers, neither. When I play I want to hear some dice rolling. Well, I was going to write something about a book I’ve started, God’s Politics by Jim Wallis. Instead I’ve just burned an hour looking through the forums for a new game I want to play. [...]