Discussion of non-RPG games I fiddle with.
Sometimes I think I’m losing my mind, sometimes I find I’m losing words. I could’ve sworn I wrote this down here, recently, but buggered if I can find it. Okay, here we go again. In the grand theme of GreyKnight’s “Post to End It“, I’m coming back to my card …
In 2016 I gave some thought to a card-based dungeon crawl game (Keeping My Hands off My Deck, Just Decking Around), and I’ve recently been thinking about it some more. Not all the details are settled yet, but some are more firmly decided and some are different from before. I’m …
I’ve always liked the idea of demesne-level games, but it seems they often become exercises in counting peasant families and calculating – to the coin – tax revenue and expenditure. Many benefit from the use of spreadsheets. Spreadsheets and other tools can have their place in tabletop gaming. They’re probably …
I had an epiphany of sorts last night. Also, insomnia; the epiphany might be nothing of the sort. In my previous post about the card crawl I described PCs as starting at ‘second level’, and that each level made them better in one area of endeavor (martial, arcane, divine, skill), …
… or not. I’m working around the edges of a card-based crawl game. I don’t know all the resolution mechanics yet, but I’m starting to see the shape of it. Probably co-op (adventuring party) Possibly competitive co-op: party has a shared goal, but each PC might have individual goals that …