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System, Hold the Math
Posted on September 4, 2012 | 1 CommentJust to illustrate something, here are a pair of systems that you can use as a basis for resolution. They share two key characteristics - neither is math dependent but both are heavily expectations dependent.Math is, I hope, self explanatory, but... -
More Skills
Posted on August 28, 2012 | Make a CommentSo many good comments on the last post that I really can't process them, except to note that they resulted in my digesting them, and lead to this.Ok, let's start from a premise: If you roll the dice, you'll succeed.The idea behind this is pretty ... -
The Fragile Foundation of Skills
Posted on August 23, 2012 | Make a CommentThis is a rant. I'm circling an idea, and if you read this, you get to watch.There's a truism that gets rolled out from time to time when talking about old school D&D vs newer iterations (and more generally, old vs new games) and that is this... -
Moving Pieces
Posted on August 20, 2012 | Make a CommentThis started out as another 13th Age post, but I ended up tabling it as a bigger issue came up in discussion which, I think, crystallized a few thoughts about games, how they're run and how they're played.Now, here's the caveat up front: I'm speaking i... -
Iconic Examples
Posted on August 17, 2012 | Make a CommentSo, here are a few specific tricks you might want to consider to build an interesting Icon set:The Icon DeckOne interesting thing about the existing 13 Icons is that they're not hard to map to half of the greater arcana of the Tarot deck. Some of that ... -
Icons and Anchors
Posted on August 16, 2012 | Make a CommentSo, one fun thing to do with the Icons system from 13th Age is to start mapping it onto fiction and game settings you like. I've done it several times, and I encounter an interesting pattern - the first few Icons of any setting tend to be v... -
Personal Icons
Posted on August 15, 2012 | Make a CommentOk, so now that you've got the idea of icons, what can you do?First and foremost, you can use them. The 13 in the rules are rock solid, and the text provides lots of interesting guidelines on customizing them. As is the nature of iconic cha... -
Icons and d20Tech
Posted on August 14, 2012 | Make a CommentSo, please take it as a given that 13th Age is going to be a great game. It's got some great minds behind it, and it really feels like it takes d20, combines a few of the good lessons from 4e, and makes a "good parts version" of d20. The la... -
The Storyteller’s Tools
Posted on August 8, 2012 | Make a CommentOne essential part of storytelling is that the teller knows the story. This seems self evident, but it's worth calling out because of what it means to the process - because the tell knows what's going to happen, she knows *how* to tell the story.... -
An Idea I Love That I CAN Do Something With
Posted on July 27, 2012 | Make a CommentOver the Edge was probably one of the most important games in my personal gaming history. It was the first really light game I came across that was actually powerful enough to handle a real range of gameplay. Pervious exposure to things&nbs...
