Ultimate Dungeon Fantasy- Part 1: Building a Foundation.
Today is the first day of actual writing for me, and I more than doubled my word count goal, meaning I get a “workshop day” tomorrow to try out a few mechanics as thought experiments. In this article,...
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Ultimate Dungeon Fantasy-Part 2: Attributes, Resistances, Defenses, and Effects.
I haven’t updated this week because I was struggling with both the demands of getting these rules right, and finally getting completely off of real cigarettes with the help of vaping (electronic...
View ArticleUltimate Dungeon Fantasy-Part 3: Admitting Defeat.
All right. It’s time to admit defeat on the Ultimate Dungeon Fantasy challenge. This one goes to Barak Blackburn. Don’t worry about me; I’m not beating myself up as much as I was when I first realized...
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Update: New Morningstar Material and More.
First, thanks to Derek G, the first member of the current forums, for putting a fire under me. We’ve just started an ongoing conversation about Morningstar that may help to shape the direction of the...
View ArticleMusings on the Idol Class, and an update to one of its abilities.
The Idol Class that I posted yesterday is a Hero of the people in the tradition of Hercules (and Xena!), Rama, Gilgamesh, and Monkey from “Journey to the West”. On Thraxis, it replaces the Paladin,...
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How Tribute Relates to Kabbalah, and Why. Also, a hint at the first setting.
I’ve been doing a bit of talking about Tribute in various places online, and there have been several misconceptions that keep cropping up. I figured I’d make a blog post to clear them up....
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Another Tribute Update
I met with Rabbi Crispe this Monday, and we went over the previous week’s changes, and got to the next letter in the series, Shin. As one of the three mother letters, sort of primary colors of...
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Tribute-I think the Element (game rule) placements are finalized. What now?
I’ve fine-tuned the Tribute Elements again, and this time feels special. I think that this is the final array of Elements for the Hebrew letters. Today I’ll skip the long diatribe about my Kabbalistic...
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Public RPG Design Spotlight: Tavern Tales
This post has been edited to add the image, and to clarify a few sections. The image is used with permission from Dabney Bailey. I thought I’d start a new, intermittent series on the blog, wherein I...
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Idealism, Materialism, and Tribute
“As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All...
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