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Showing posts with label Gaslamp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gaslamp. Show all posts
Monday, November 24, 2014

Inventing gets a test in Gaslamp Romance

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We had the 6 th session of Gaslamp Romance last weekend and I finally got a chance to test the inventing rules as they were meant to be us...
Monday, November 10, 2014

Decentralized Power in Character Design part 4

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Last post on this (probably) but I wanted to discuss how and why I dealt with this in Gaslamp Romance. The last problem with giving the PCs ...
Friday, October 31, 2014

Elements of horror in GMing

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Since this post is dropping on Halloween I suppose I should discuss something scary. So let me start with this http://www.vox.com/a/best-ho...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Mechanics in the Abstract

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One of the game mechanics changes I made for this round of Gaslamp Romance was making some of the rules even more abstract. Not Life Points ...
Monday, October 27, 2014

Elena Turduck and the Ghosts of Odysseus

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Had the 5th session of the Gaslamp Romance game yesterday and the general consensus was that the new rules worked well. Less hunting around ...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Drama Again

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This is the end of the discussions of the 1.1 Gaslamp Romance rules set - what to do with Drama Points. I _think_ the decision to limit th...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

How to Mook

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Mooks, if you aren't familiar with Robin Laws' term from Feng Shui, are nameless combatants who have a bare minimum number of stats ...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Qualities of Qualties

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As I discussed last Friday I'm going to be stripping down the skills, advantages and drawbacks system from my first attempt to a set of ...
Friday, October 17, 2014

As the Construct Rules Set Rampages Through the Village….

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Everything to this point has been a discussion of the mechanics that Jim and I built for the game before it actually intersected with the p...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Elena Turduck and the...

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The mechanics and characters in place Jim and I started the game. We've run 4 sessions to date, which to me is a good time to look over ...
Monday, October 13, 2014

People who aren’t Heterodynes: the Gaslamp Melodrama PCs

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With the rules in place the players cobbled together their PCs Rachel already had a PC –Rachel’s a big fan of Barbra Bain and has that ...
Friday, October 10, 2014

To Angst or nor to Angst: Drama Points in Gaslamp Melodrama

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The biggest change Jim and I made to the BtVS system for Girl Genius involved the drama point economy. To explain, the heart of the lon...
Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Various Ways of Making Things Go Boom in Gaslamp Melodrama

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In the discussion of system mechanics, first off combat: I instituted a bit more of an initiative system than was recommended in the ‘whene...
Monday, October 6, 2014

Turning Buffy into Agatha (without using a corset) 2 - Qualities

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Qualities are a key component in the Unisystem – encompassing both advantages and drawbacks they are either distinct character traits (such...
Friday, October 3, 2014

Turning Buffy to Agatha part 1 - Skills

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Last time the players opted for a melodramatic rather than political view of Girl Genius. That meant using C. J. Carella’s Buffy the Vampir...
Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Alternate Paths Towards Running a Girl Genius RPG

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I’m trusting that if you’re reading this you’re marginally familiar with the Foglo’s award winning webcomic Girl Genius. (If you’re not, go...