Posts by: Amy Sutedja
You probably have heard the news about #dndnext by now — the impending Fifth Edition of Dungeons and Dragons.
Of course, there are all sorts of rumors flying around, but probably the most interesting thing that’s come out of the media hubbub is this bit from Monte Cook:
…imagine a game where one [...]
I heard somewhere — I forget exactly where, so I am sure this account is somewhat mangled — that once someone sold an online PDF entitled How to Start Your Own Tabletop Games Business. It was a lavishly pure-white single-page document that said, in large, friendly letters: DON’T.
I. In Which I Provide an Overview of Treasure
Treasure is the shiny new engine behind wondrous objects and artifacts in Nobilis. But it also covers your mom, too.
In short, Treasure is the stat that lets you claim and manipulate anything that’s not technically you or your Estate, but is closely related to you [...]
Let’s talk a little bit about what you actually do in Nobilis 3e. It is kind of different from what you do in other games, I think.
In other, less fun games (she said facetiously), there is some fundamental set of tools you use and tasks you perform. In Dungeons and Dragons, you use sword and spell to [...]
So anyway, let’s have a bit of a chat, you and I.
A month or so ago, when I was asked to start writing for this blog, I basically thought: Um –, wh –, okay?
And then I thought: Do I have anything actually interesting to say, here?
You may have noticed that I kind [...]
In the comments of Jim’s post about active stats, I offered up some advice about how to challenge Hackers in Leverage in a way that’s not just “roll a bunch of Intelligence + Hacker.”
I won’t rehash the specific details in this post, but I would like to call attention to the [...]
(Background on my motivations: I’ve been roleplaying with a few people who have expressed to me a sentiment along the lines of “I’m bad at roleplaying,” or “I can’t roleplay.” Yet, they are interested in playing roleplaying games!
To me, this is amazingly foreign, because stepping into a role feels pretty natural to me. But [...]
Tonight, I played my first romance-themed roleplaying game ever — Jake Richmond and Heather Aplington’s G X B (Girl X Boy)*, an anime-themed dating roleplaying game.
Now, I’d heard of games like Elizabeth Shoemaker’s It’s Complicated and Emily Care Boss’s Three Quick Games About the Human Heart series, but I hadn’t really ever ventured [...]
Recently, I ended a campaign. It didn’t really end with a bang or a whimper, but rather a cheery admission of Let’s be honest here, this is not working, shortly after the beginning of the third session of a planned four-session arc.
We decided, then, to play video games for the rest of the night instead.
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