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What binds the party together?
Over time, I've realized that there is a great advantage for everybody implicated on a campaign when the PCs party belong to an established group in-game, with an implied goals and sometimes, even a roster for backup PCs. On our cyberpunk campaigns, it was the gang. Everybody starting as gang members gave you a drive and an identity instantaneously, leaving your character background story for…
VS THE VAMPIRE LORDS (a one page rpg)
Something I sent to this game jam to make me write a little. The game is here . You can see many of the last year's entries condensed in that single page, Of course, it is not tested, its written in just a couple of nights as a test, but I'm actually very happy with it. Google's AI helped me with one of the last letters, can you guess which one? Answer in the comments!
Into the Odd + Pokemon = Into the Oddish
Something I found out that somebody else is doing, The only page I have seen from the rules. I love everything about this. this third party blog is recruiting people to write the whole 151 pokemon + all the moves. I'll try to contribute if I get some time
Meta-Abilities
Which is in where the players influence the world not through the actions of their character, but by writing the narrative around it. I've been using this kind of things more and more every year, and I love how much crap they cut, how many problems they solve and how many good ideas they inject into the sessions. As for now, I have "codified" them in separate skills, which must be picked up by…
Evil in Worldbuilding
Every day, our real world's lore becomes more and more grimdark. If you read it on any fantasy series, you'd think the plot is unbelievable and cheap. Once monarchy was succesfully removed from europe, capitalism was unhindered to reach its natural state of monopoly. The families behind this "social" movements grew rich enough to literally buy the world in a couple of centuries. Their crimes are…
Naruto + Pokemon
The little black dot in the head of the frog that is in the head of the other frog, its a human. My untested greatest rpg project of all time is to replace the whole magic system of my D&D clone with something parallel to pokemons: Wizards catching and collecting monsters that cast or are the spells, but at the same time create a bond with them. But at the same time, having the fighter class a…
Pokemon and Worldbuilding
I am playing Dragonsden's Pokemon: Team Rocket Edition again. Its a fan game made by a Spaniard but I think its becoming translated into english already. It might be the greatest pokemon game ever made. This is the pitch: You start the adventure as just another recruit on the Inta Island headquarters, at Archi7, with the intention of ascending little by little into the Team Rocket organization.…
Is the Owlbear spanish?
Looks like an Owlbear, but its a Bú! I like Owlbears; it's probably my most used monster straight from the book. I love that, without having powers, they are big and terrible, and make players fear camping out at night in the woods. I rule that they can be easily stunned by flashing lights, as their pupils are so used to the dark. I've heard the tale of Gary Gygax making up the monster around a…
Sex scenes
Related to this post, but not actually about that. I am working on a magic system outlined in here , which works by calling forth magical spirits instead of casting the spells, and I was thinking on the incubus-like nature of ifrits. I don't know about how often do sexual themes or scenes appear in your games. Its not something I bring to the table on purpose (or so I think), but feel that…
6 Attributes and what are they used for.
In a way that they are important for everybody regardless of their "class". They are randomly generated, and there is a random chance to improve your chosen one at level ups! 1. Strength: Improves HP; Improves damage with some weapons, defines maximum load. Can be used to test something when you want to kick a stuck door. 2. Dexterity: Check this when you want to spend your turn dodging an attack,…
Abstract wealth
Because I've never liked beancounting on games for multiple reasons; I can't remember what I did with my last abstract wealth rules. Let's rewrite them. But first, let's break the wealth tiers, even if just for having a reference: Tier 0: You are broke. You suck dicks to survive. You must roleplay how you get your food and shelter Tier 1: You have some silver coins. You can afford basic…
I started an NSFW webcomic
And it's here: https://phylacteryquest.thecomicseries.com/ Two adventurers are sent on a quest through an average jrpg land; It's sort of related to this blog because I can't help doing tons of OSR meta-references. I'm having a lot of fun doing it. Just Tome I for now (with surprisingly no female nudity yet), I expect to do the II this month, and honestly if there is enough interest, I have an…
A coyote story
Once upon a time, the coyote was walking through the land and he stopped to rest on a rock. He noticed the rock felt very cold, and he felt pity for that poor rock and put his blanket over the rock so it wouldn't be so cold. He resumed his travel, but when the night fell, he felt the cruel chill himself, and he decided to recover the blanket. He went back to the rock and took it, but as he left,…
World of Dungeons: Pokemon Spirit Combat
In World of Dungeons, magic is done primarily by summoning spirits. Yet these are the only rules present for it. Wondering how I could expand it, and mostly, wanting to define some example spirits for a list, I ended up wanting to turn magic into Pokemon-style combat. As such, spirits should have a list of 1 to 5 abilities that provide either firepower (against other spirits or the wizard's…
1979: WORLD OF DUNGEONS, REVISITED
If you don't know about this game, go download it right now . It has got a lot to love, it's free, and its 4 pages + the Character Sheet. I loved this game and played with its rules at the time (as with everything, never ran it without changing most of it). I went back to check it out after all this years, and I saw so many things so clear that I had to write them all in here. I will from now on…
Guns in fantasy
I've decided to make a long article about matchlocks and cannons because it can be fun. I've invested a lot of thought on this already, why not share it altogether? Why early firearms are normally not a thing on a medieval fantasy world and what happens when they do? What are the implications on a given setting? 1. Though arquebuses redefined warfare in the great scale, combats at street level or…
Spell Hunters. This entry overrides all previous entries on magic in this blog.
www.sembrys.com/pixel-art More recent notes on my current rules. For context, attributes are this, with -1 to +3 modifiers applying to things: Strenght Dexterity Skill #1 Skill #2 Magic Charisma Let's focus on magic. Each attribute bonus gives you 1 Mana Die, plus one if you get the Wizard class. So, a Wizard with a +3 magic attribute has 4 Mana Dice. The second mana die is only active (but not…
Planets 3: Duel Culture
Note: this is part of a series , worldbuilding some shit apart from the usual D&Dlike stuff. --------------------------------------- Forgotten from each other, separated in distance and time, every planet naturally develops dialects and customs, and uphelds their own traditions. But if there was one thing that could be considered a constant throughout all the disk, enough to form the backbone of a…
Ultimate Game Balance: fighting man VS specialist
source: something called "tale of the silly bard " Rivers of ink had been spilled over the eternal balancing of Magic Users and Fighting man on different games. For some reason, they never tap into the real problem: balancing them towards the Specialist. Not the thief; who is normally a DEX fighting man: I talk about the common folk who maximizes non-combat skills or it's equivalent. I am…
Fall 2025; New Project, weapons and armor (EDITED)
Most recent notes on my current rules. Attributes are this, with -1 to +3 modifiers applying to things: Strength (bonus to damage, carry load, bonus to HP) Dexterity (success: avoid an attack, as an action. On a 6, you can then do a non-combat action) Magic (amount of mana dice mostly) Charisma (willpower + leadership + divine touch) Weapon (choose bonus to sword, bow or unarmed. A malus means bad…
Eleven Samurai
I just finished this movie a while ago. Very good stuff, the kind that gets me on the GMing mood. Some usable ideas: 1. The whole movie is a very interesting plot hook: The spoiled brother of a Shogun kills a random peasant; the local lord recriminates this behavior and the Shogun's brother kills him too. The lord's clan wants revenge, but the Shogunate wants to incriminate (and expoil) the clan…
Vampires and Crosses
Dracula has been my summer book. I had read it long ago, in my goth days; but only now have I "lived" it. Back then, I was probably dissapointed because "the movie was better" and because there was no Lestat on it. Warning: I'm not sure if this post is about rpgs at all. But now, let's admire the fact that all the old D&D books put a crucifix or two on their equipment lists. I had a player ask me…
Ryuutama's Weapon Types
If you haven't read about it, Ryuutama is a pastoral japanese RPG about travelling and living small adventures under the protection of some dragons called Ryuujins. While I love the concept, the system seems a little clunky to me by reading alone. Still, I love how it condenses the whole of the possible weapons into six categories: It made me reflect on how our classic visions, inherited from D&D,…
Fantasy Dog Breeds
Dog chad Last year I went into the rabbit hole of reading about the history of hunting and dog breeding (fascinating topics, alongside a personal favorite being the domestication and integration of the horse in human life) TLDR: 1. Medieval dogs breeds were radically different from today's and 2. There is no reason to think that in a made up world with monsters and magic there would be the exact…