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I continue to poke at game design, and I've been thinking of such things as initiative 'systems' I'm not a big fan of the mechanical process (simply preferring PCs to act first unless they choose otherwise)
But for some reason, my brain wants an Initiative bid system, where the person who wants to go first the most can--for a price.
Last week I released Micro2K – a distillation of the Step Dice #YearZeroEngine as used in #Twilight2000 and #BladeRunner. This is based on the YZE SRD with some additional inspirations.
I really like the SD YZE version but there’s only two games that use it. So this is free and if someone wants an editable file to make their own game with it, ping me.
Ich hatte gestern eine Idee zu Gerüchtetabellen, in denen man die Quellen von Gerüchten definiert. Nicht jedes Gerücht ist bei allen Klassen/Schichten/Völkern im Umlauf. Gab es sowas schon? Jedenfalls hat mir die Idee sehr gefallen.
(Spieler:innen in meiner Conan-Runde möchten die Gerüchteliste im Artikel vielleicht nicht zu genau lesen.)
Some 'folklore' books are of questionable value. The one I just read was, I quite literally could have achieved more material in a ten minute web search
I would love to post more about negative lessons in game design, but when I do, I have to abstract them, because every work I regard as a mediocrity (maybe 99.85% of all RPG books of all eras) is someone else's beloved favorite, and there's no benefit in the resulting bad feelings.
So I do this lopsided thing where I celebrate the books that teach me positive lessons and go silent on the rest 😅 But, both kinds of lesson are hugely valuable.