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Index Card Tactics
Posted on May 4, 2012 | Make a CommentI was talking about this with Ryan Macklin last night and I had a moment of "huh, I should write this down" so here it is.At Pax East, I ran a game of what can probably best be described as tabletop Final Fantasy Tactics. Early in the con I had r... -
Heroic Adventuring
Posted on March 30, 2012 | Make a CommentI ran a game last night on relatively little prep. I was using Dave Chalker's Marvel Heroic RPG-D&D 4e hack, and I threw together some notes to create the adventure as quickly as I could and threw them up on google plus, just because they're a nic... -
Don’t Take The Affiliation, Even Though It’s Awesome
Posted on March 29, 2012 | Make a CommentAffiliations are one of the neat ideas in the Marvel Heroic RPG. They touch upon what I had to say about normal the other day because they are (arguably) the central part of any roll you make in Marvel. That is to say, you could conceivably make a ro... -
Normal (d6)
Posted on March 26, 2012 | Make a CommentI cheat a bit when I run Leverage and its variants. According to the rules, when the GM spends a PP to create something, it's created at d6. I'm less kind, and when I create things, they're d8s, and for all intents and purposes, I have an infinite bu... -
Some Random Cortex Hacks
Posted on April 12, 2011 | Make a CommentI've been randomly hacking things in my head for Cortex plus and it's produced a few usable widgets that I figured I'd share.Cracking Dice - This is a pretty simple concept, but it struck me as something that might streamline any dice distribution syst... -
Active Stats and Leverage
Posted on March 23, 2011 | Make a CommentOne other interesting thing that came out of the Leverage game at PAX-east was a discussion of stats. For those unfamiliar with the game, it's worth noting that Leverage has some very normal stats (Strength, Agility and whatnot) but no "social" stat. ... -
A Tip for Masterminds
Posted on March 22, 2011 | Make a CommentI only managed to run one game of Leverage at PAX, and despite my degraded health, I think it went decently well. I've found I like paying a lot of attention to what the group takes as their secondary role, since it often tells you a lot about what th... -
The Sacred Cow Job
Posted on February 7, 2011 | Make a CommentI pulled together a gone on pretty short notice today, with no real sense of what I was going to do with it. I ended up pulling up something together pretty much whole cloth, and it ended up weird but pretty cool.Premise was a city of gods, where one g... -
A Magic Trick
Posted on January 31, 2011 | Make a CommentI mentioned earlier in the supernatural/Leverage hack a couple types of dice that allow you to simulate more dangerous monsters in a fair fight, specifically kept dice (which are used in addition to the usual two) and hard dice (which always roll their... -
Adding the Monster
Posted on January 28, 2011 | Make a CommentOne of my absolute favorite tricks in Leverage is that there is no obligation to stat the opposition from the getgo. Structurally, there are certain questions you need to answer about the mark and such, but the mark isn't really the opposition. I'm t...
