Articles tagged with: game design
Stargazer Games presents … BADASS!
Have you ever wanted to play a game that kicks that logic in the face, twists its arm behind its back and makes it cry for its momma? Jay Steven Anyong ’s BADASS is exactly that game. In this rules-light roleplaying game filled with pure awesomesa... read more
Have you ever wanted to play a game that kicks that logic in the face, twists its arm behind its back and makes it cry for its momma? Jay Steven Anyong ’s BADASS is exactly that game. In this rules-light roleplaying game filled with pure awesomesa... read more
Stargazer Games presents … BADASS!
Have you ever wanted to play a game that kicks that logic in the face, twists its arm behind its back and makes it cry for its momma? Jay Steven Anyong ’s BADASS is exactly that game. In this rules-light roleplaying game filled with pure awesomesa... read more
Have you ever wanted to play a game that kicks that logic in the face, twists its arm behind its back and makes it cry for its momma? Jay Steven Anyong ’s BADASS is exactly that game. In this rules-light roleplaying game filled with pure awesomesa... read more
Perfect Skin: Some Musing On The Design Of Monsters
Monsters generally come in three parts: Stat Blocks, Descriptive passages (which some people refer to as Fluff), and Templates, enabling you to add the “monster description” to an existing race – sort of an ersatz Class. Lately, I&... read more
Monsters generally come in three parts: Stat Blocks, Descriptive passages (which some people refer to as Fluff), and Templates, enabling you to add the “monster description” to an existing race – sort of an ersatz Class. Lately, I&... read more
Top-Down Plug-in Game Design: The Perfect Recipe?
Click on the image to see a larger version As someone who writes about RPGs... read more
Weird West Roleplaying Game
A couple of days ago Stuart Robertson released his extremely rules-light “ Weird West Roleplaying Game ”. Like the name suggests its meant for “weird western worlds of cowboys, kung-fu, magic and otherworldly malevolence”. For just 1$ (at Dr... read more
A couple of days ago Stuart Robertson released his extremely rules-light “ Weird West Roleplaying Game ”. Like the name suggests its meant for “weird western worlds of cowboys, kung-fu, magic and otherworldly malevolence”. For just 1$ (at Dr... read more
Help a friend…
A friend, fellow member of Puerto Rico Role Players and all around swell guy Rallaster, has been working on new base classes for the Pathfinder RPG. I’ve been looking over his creations, the Mystic Knight and the Shadow Knight , both in beta versi... read more
A friend, fellow member of Puerto Rico Role Players and all around swell guy Rallaster, has been working on new base classes for the Pathfinder RPG. I’ve been looking over his creations, the Mystic Knight and the Shadow Knight , both in beta versi... read more
The creative process in game design or sandpaper golem sex and letting go of ideas
Yesterday I came up with a brand new game. In fact, I came up with a new board game and a new creature to add to my slowly growing list of Pathfinder oddities, both based on the same idea. While doing the creative lifting that goes in to making so... read more
New RPG Teaser: Gateworld
To begin with, this game is almost certainly not going to be called "Gateworld." That is what we in the biz call a "working title" and it is little more than a placeholder until the proper name strikes the authors. A few thing are certain, though. F... read more
To begin with, this game is almost certainly not going to be called "Gateworld." That is what we in the biz call a "working title" and it is little more than a placeholder until the proper name strikes the authors. A few thing are certain, though. F... read more
Help playtest the High Score RPG
High Score is a roleplaying game currently in development by fellow RPG blogger Dennis Santana which has an interesting premise. Each event in the game has a certain high score the players have to reach before they “won” the scene. Of course the... read more
High Score is a roleplaying game currently in development by fellow RPG blogger Dennis Santana which has an interesting premise. Each event in the game has a certain high score the players have to reach before they “won” the scene. Of course the... read more
Taking d20 Modern Into D&D 3.5
The best thing about d20 and the Open Game License is the ability to port elements within the d20 family back and forth from one game or genre to another, and have everything speak the same language. Nothing can be simpler than taking skills, feats,... read more
The best thing about d20 and the Open Game License is the ability to port elements within the d20 family back and forth from one game or genre to another, and have everything speak the same language. Nothing can be simpler than taking skills, feats,... read more 