For all of those whiners who complain that Oregon Trail was too tough because you could die on the first day, you can now follow this link [https://devilghost.com/software/travellercharacter/] (and reload as necessary to get a character that survives). The above results are all too typical for scouts.…
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People forget that Car Wars was pretty much an RPG where the car was your character. Jeffro brings out Car Wars to show that, if you are worried about the plot of your adventure, you're doing it wrong [https://jeffro.wordpress.com/2018/08/27/should-rpg-campaigns-have-a-plot/]. > The question is asked, “What are your favorite ways of coming up with an engaging campaign plot line for role playing games?” My answer to this is that it’s an inherently wrongheaded question: If your campaign has a pl…
Omer G Joel over at spacecockroach.blogspot.com has been posting about his new background [http://spacecockroach.blogspot.com/2018/08/hard-space-starflight.html] for the Cepheus Engine (a kindof Traveller retroclone mostly compatible with Mongoose Traveller), and it sounds fun, especially the aspects that lend themselves to aliens/outland style horror. I’ll note that it’s not the only project to do “weird shit man was not meant to know in space” of the gritty variety, there’s also a project call…
Today as a GM I got a valuable lesson in the craziness of reaction rolls and how it can cause some utterly unique moments in gaming. This is the kind of thing that happens when you run a “decision loop” as Bradford Walker has laid out, and the world is a simulation with the GM being the arbiter instead of the narrator of a “story” game. Background. We’ve got a 1HP cleric in the party, “Three Steps”. His stated goal is to “advance the candle into the darkness.” In the past encounters with orcs,…
A drum I’ve beaten over and over again with my game group – I want the choices my characters make to mean something other than “I get through the adventure, I gain XP”. It’s one reason that, if I’m running a game, I’m running ACKs, though I’m looking forward to some Traveller (book) play at some point as well. It’s why, as I alluded to earlier, I also prefer modules to “adventures” and “adventure paths”. So, someone going by “Raging Owlbear” posted that, after the game expectations were set, a…