Here I put some of my rpg ideas...
Just read It is time to ditch the "good GM" and found the aproach mislead. While I do agree with most of the ideals aspired to in the post it muddled ideals of play with an analysis of gm skill and fails in the parts where it actually is analytic. Aproaching the topic of GM or player skill the first problem begins in the attempt to grade or quantify it. What players and GM need to bring to the…
The Conspiracist Seeks to share knowledge Wants to prevent anyone from acessing their private space The Affair Seeks to quickly end any interaction Wants to prevent anyone from noticing their affair present in the flat The Upright Citizen Seeks to to fullfill their duties Wants to prevent Laws getting broken The Gossipseeker Seeks to aquire all kind of new information Will share all that gossip…
Dragon Mother: Wrath and Greed personified. They never stop growing and their ambition is limitless. They know neither ally nor friend only treasure and food. Anyone subservient to the mother should be keenly aware of that and make sure to remain treasureable for the mother unless they want to be recategorized. Neither their mating partners nor their offspring are excluded from this consideration.…
How is it that while pretty much everyone in roleplaying believes the satanic panic to be an outrageous case of moral panic with no basis in reality, but when the claim is made that DnD/Dungeons is colonial that claim is taken seriously both by those that agree with it and want to decolonize roleplaying as well as those that deny the claim and want to defend their hobby from the accusation. I am…
I recently played some Battle Brothers again and thought these beasts could make for some cool monster in a DnD campaign, so here are some Mosaic Strict Creations inspired by BattleBrother monsters. Lindwurm Bites like a bear. Its tail lashes out against all adjacent targets like a bear claw. Armored like plate mail. Armored like leather if the atttacker knows of a weakpoint on their side.…
I read this post and realy like the idea. While I will have to see how it works in practice I think it also has great potential to be used as a way to describe relation between NPC factions. To this purpose i have composed this random table with interfaction debts to flesh out factions to begin with. Additionaly I want to expand the original mechanism slightly. My goal is to represent more…
Read this and got inspired to come up with a few tables of my own. When you have driven away or killed the local lord or imperial overseer Roll 2d6 Add 2 if the locals are mistreated regularly or have been recently Subtract 2 if a significant portion of the local Benefits from the authorities 2 The local population tries to capture the party and hand them over to the authorities 3 The locals…
Have an idea what goals you want to encourage in your game. Get a notebook, the larger the page size the longer it will take for characters to progress again. At the end of each session ask your players what progress they made. The questions will vary what is encouraged in the campaign. My questions are: What did you learn? What did you discover? What are you proud of? Here are some alternatives…
I synthesized these idea waking up in the middle of the night not beeing able to fall asleep and have been inspired from vastly different media i hope it is not to convoluded to follow. I recently read the Cataphract post annd the At your Order posts and was fascinated by both. I also started playing Rule the Waves again. This lead to me thinking about a similiar project but with warships instead…
A subsystem to have an extended herbalism skill, its essence has been in use for ~1 year although always fragmented on several pieces of paper with a few inconsistencies so here is a more formalized version for use in my campaign and for anyone interested to use it. I am not using real plants but attempt to create new herbal plants to be discovered by my players. For this purpose all plants are…