Perplexing Ruins

also a brilliant book!

for my $, this one is a splurge that is worth every penny! it's large, extravagant, but @skerples.bsky.social did not mess around. This is one of those books that's a forever book, not a flash in the pan. a defining book, imho

indeed. hadn't factored exploding into my thinking! as a solo PC exploding is a great rule too :)

If you have this amazing book, it has a great Knight listing for good porting into your Mythic Bastionland game! @creativewronging.bsky.social

I'm also playing with the idea of HD=No. of "Hits" to take down, instead of HP.
this is done by many tables, i think? seems like a nice way to keep TVG stats as is, but reduce math even more (per you asking what I want to change)

thanks for sharing these thoughts. So per TVG, would the current creature AC be able to be a Low DR? A brigand has AC 2, which is higher than LDR1 (leather). but swinging a d6, means 3+ deals

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The No ICE in California Bundle is nearing $100,000 raised - which is incredible. You can get my dice and hexflower wargame, FIREDROP, as part of it, plus lots of other stuff (including Midnight of the Century which I've been playing recently). Check it out: itch.io/b/3110/no-ic...

AI and Empty Art — Prismatic Wasteland On the perils of artificial intelligence when it comes to the tabletop gaming medium.

Some thoughts on artificial intelligence [sic] and its perils to tabletop gaming as a medium #osr #ttrpg

Yep! Soon to be joined by bats

Next piece for patrons underway

Good quick read for a different take (to me at least) on armor, dmg, AC

Armour Class or Damage Resistance Roleplaying is fifty years old this year. There are some arguments/discussions/debates/jihads which have been ongoing for most of that time. Today I will resolve one of them once and for all! AC or…

i just read this article by @brianbloodaxe.bsky.social ominosity.wordpress.com/2024/01/09/a...
I think its pretty cool!

have you been running this? now I remember you sharing this a while ago. how has it been in practice? It seems like a nice solution

it's handled in those game elegantly. starting armor at 0 is so much more sensible than the AC 10 from older versions.
frankly, it's just the narrative piece I quite like, of armor reducing...the slight twist does nice things for my brain.
Blue hack is: roll under stat/ armor reduces rolled dmg

🤔 i like it

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huh? its the players choice? like each combat they decide - think I'd always go 4, lol

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have never read that one, but not sure I want to get into anything so chunky

i think I just want to find a way to keep its wonderful simplicity, but making it more player facing...
making armor do dmg reduction.
havent dug into it yet, but suspect it wouldnt be a hard thing to do. love that it uses degradation! so want to have that included

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I'm still figuring it out. I am laying out the vanilla game for myself, but want to tweak some stuff in it

i will look, thanks!
for sure. not sure 1,2,3 reduction will alter much? hence verdict out on static dmg vs rolled.
playing solo as i do, the static dmg is always tempting. if its a low-level, i "hit" then its gone, if its a Lt., it takes 2, not interested usually in counting down HP. lots to track.

Shields/helm?

armor reducing damage is cooler than affecting the to-hit rolls

player facing defensive rolls are cooler than GM rolling to hit

verdict out on variable damage (or rolled dmg) vs. dmg being 1 Wound for normal weapon, 2 Wounds for heavy

Got this to the table (or lap desk), and it's fun! Really just a fantasy-themed solo card game (rather than an RPG), but the campaign sheet and the ability to track achievements and unlock passive and activity abilities make it feel like a roguelite. Plays quickly too, so it's easy to do a few runs.

quote from kafka

Kafka wrote this in a letter. the penultimate line, I saw somewhere as a young art student, and I thought it was pretty remarkable then, and always remembered it - just now is my first time seeing the para

“A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside of us.”
-Franz Kafka, novelist (1883–1924)

New mini fig for the Fallen RPG!!

screen cap from article about indiana and its treatment of the LGBTQ+ community

I know i said no more political posts, but this is game related too. Something to consider when spending loads of $ in Indiana for #gencon
www.indystar.com/story/news/p...

your made the d66 icon card, that I borrowed the design from for the fallen solo card :)