As long as I'm posting a bunch of Numenera hacks all at once, I might as well be thorough. Here's how you can make use of a bunch of the ideas in your Numenera books with the much looser MinimalD6 rule set, which has spawned a bunch of other simple hacks. This post includes the … Continue reading MinimalD6 Numenera
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Playtesting the dullest demonslaying
Yesterday, my group took Grave for a spin for the third time. I knew that they were nearing the end of their journey through the Veins of the Earth, so I prepared a number of other locations for them to visit next, unsure of which they'd pick. An ever surprising lot, they picked the absolute … Continue reading Playtesting the dullest demonslaying
Exhumed: Pamphlet Dungeon Edition
Last night, I completed a version of Exhumed for the Pamphlet Dungeon Jam hosted by Nate Treme—about half a minute after the jam closed at 1:00am local time. (It's been a rough week.) I was disappointed to be unable to show it off among the other excellent pieces, but I figured, hey, I made the … Continue reading Exhumed: Pamphlet Dungeon Edition
What AGE taught me about stunts
Today I got to play the first session in a campaign for The Expanse RPG, based on the AGE system. I think I'll enjoy it because the other players and their characters are great, I dig the setting, and sooner or later, the rules will become familiar enough to us that turns will go more … Continue reading What AGE taught me about stunts
Searchers of the Untitled: 2 one-page D&Dish games
Searchers of the Unknown is a one-page take on old school D&D, built on a simple premise: Any character can be boiled down to a five-item stat line of the sort used for monsters (like "AC 12 MV 10′ HD 3 HP 12 #AT 1 D d8 sword"). In a clever bit of design, armor … Continue reading Searchers of the Untitled: 2 one-page D&Dish games
Play Report: (Soulslike) Veins of the Earth
Veins of the Earth is a weird, evocative, generally excellent guide to subterranean D&Dish adventure. There is more in there than I will ever be able to use, but I intend to milk it for as much as I can for my soulslike Knave campaign (a.k.a. Grave), and then dig even more out when I … Continue reading Play Report: (Soulslike) Veins of the Earth
Design Diary: One (more) foot in the Grave
Much to my own surprise, I think I'm about to finish Grave—a variant on Ben Milton's Knave, built for soulslike games. Today was only the second session I've run with these rules, but after the session, the players generally agreed that it's pretty close to done. I shouldn't be so surprised, though: The rules don't … Continue reading Design Diary: One (more) foot in the Grave
