2004年2月11日 · Creating tabletop RPGs, from creating professional systems to patching your favorite game.

2024年9月9日 · I would say that PbtA games are a good example of a game that doesn't specifically set out to tell a story. You just play to find out what happens; it's literally the guiding principle. Versus a different game in a GUMSHOE system, for example, that's built around the pacing of the mystery.

2024年9月9日 · Game design theory and criticism go hand in hand. But for the record, the value I saw in describing the idea of design black holes was to recognise the behaviour in myself.

2019年3月1日 · While working on RPG design I have grown to feel pretty strongly about two things when designing how you lay out your Attributes, Skills, and other stats: Develop broad lists of non-combat Skills, which can then be refined Keep Combat and Non-combat stats completely separate. 1) Develop broad...

2024年12月8日 · These to conceptions of RPG play have different design needs that need to be taken into account. *Either through the participants willingly shifiting their actions towards those ends, or through game mechanical limitations or incentives encouraging them to do so.

2024年9月9日 · Against though, the main difference is the way moves serve the focus and push the game events thematically and narratively towards specific avenues. But yes, the way I handle world events is soemwhat similar to things like PbtA style fronts. Though, I came at it through the OSR design space, rather than the indie narrativist design space.

2021年1月30日 · I suspect Chapter 10: RPG Theorizing by Designers and Players and Chapter 18: Game Design and Role-Playing Games, and their respective bibliographies, may point you in the right direction.

2015年2月20日 · Attribute scores are the foundations of every RPG character. Attributes determine the character’s epic qualities and their tragic flaws. In many video and table-top role-playing games, there has been a standardization of these basic attributes with a little variance determined by the focus of...

2012年6月9日 · Hi! I'm currently developing a system set in a fantasy world. I want the world to be more akin to those of various JRPGs (Final Fantasy [9, 10, 12 - the less steampunk-ish ones], Suikoden, Valkyrie Profile) than traditional western settings (Forgotten Realms, LOTR), and as such, I'm considering...

2021年5月16日 · When I read reviews and critiques of RPGs, something brought up frequently is layout and ease of use. They'll say a game is laid out intuitively, and they can find the information they need quickly. Other games are criticized for the lack thereof: information isn't organized logically, and thus...