d13 Vaude-villains in Electric Bastionland

I finished Netflix's Series of Unfortunate Events week or so ago. And whenever I watch anything, I can't turn my GMing/RPG designer brain off. These ideas and tropes roll around in my brain until I spit them out on paper (or the blog) or actually use them in a game. Because of my obsession, the …

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Union: Electric Bastionland + Attack on Titan

Spoilers. Read with care. I love the tabletop RPG Electric Bastionland. I've written about it a few times. I love the anime Attack on Titan. I'm watching season 4 right now. Oooooooh it's good. Listen as you read 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgBUP8TJqV8&ab_channel=kimmeh And now, here's the pitch for combining the two: You have a colossal debt. To …

Diceless Warfare

Lest we forget, fiction is diceless. Books, movies, radio dramas. They tell stories of problems that have the Upper Hand (which we talked about last time). The protagonists must then find solutions that give them the Upper Hand: The rebels are a rag-tag bunch of fighters with rusty X-wings against the armada of the Empire, …

Diceless Resolution and the Upper Hand

Fear no evil. We did diceless violence before, but the process for making diceless resolution, diceless violence, and diceless warfare is all the same: give the "bad guys" (orcs, evil nobles, the mountain, the world in general) the Upper Hand. The players must find a solution to change the current outcome. Each solution they attempt …

Stress for Wooded Adventures (ItO, Cairn, Into the Wyrd and Wild)

Guess this counts for Dolmenwood too. Have yet to read/play... Been playing more Darkest Dungeon (my way, of course). Sudden urge to run it as an RPG (as with most things I watch or play). Looked for stress mechanics for Into the Odd (not very far, I'll admit). Stumbled back upon Cairn (lots of cool …

The Deep Blue Beneath (Electric Bastionland)

Even the minnows have razorteeth... If you go down far enough in the Underground, you'll hit breathable water.Without a dive suit, you just continually float as if detached from gravity.Even if you have a suit, you move slowly through the waters.All sorts of bizarre sea life swim around you, sizing up your place on the …

One-Pager Dungeons on Google Docs

This has *nothing* to do with one-page dungeons, I just recently watched The Dark Crystal. On to more RPG-related things. I'm a building sub now (heh, fooled you, didn't I?). Things in the classroom can get a bit rote when one class period to the next is "work time" for every block. I've resolved to …

Losing to goldfish

Millions of miles beneath the worldcrust, floating waters force pockets of blue-eyed goldfish towards deep-sea geysers. Funny how they're called "blue-eyed" and not "sharp-toothed..." After the greatest month of posting in the history of this blog, it can be hard to return... But first, this from John Comer in "The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry": ...Our …