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How do you build a good monster hunt that feels like an actual monster hunt? It's do-able, but you have to be careful not the make your game the Battletoads of D&D campaigns.
A ‘Power Skill’ measures how adept a character is at pushing an ability beyond its normal limits. These are rules for handling them, from my Zenith-3 System, and adapting them to other game systems, permitting their application to D&D class abilities and Feats and so on. Useful in any genre with unusual abilities. What Is […]
Now it's time for the third and final short essay laying out the underlying design approach for our pretty good dungeon. Except this isn't the final one and it isn't short. This one's all about how players decide where to go next.
Continuing my series of short, conceptual articles to set up the building a pretty good dungeon, here's one about the idea of explorable space.
A simplified mechanism for the simulation of trade in an RPG where it is not to be the focal point. Background A confluence of thoughts from different sources came together the other day relating to how we assess profit from selling something. I’m not sure it was strong enough to count as a revelation, but […]