Category RPG General
What have I been up to RPG wise?
So when I last wrote this blog a year ago I had started on some Marvel Multiverse stuff. I have played a game with some friends and their kids but that’s as far as that went. We finished out D&D rotating DM game before last summer. that is, I finished my story, Brian didn’t and […]
Looking at generic RPG systems
It’s that time again, i’m wanting to play a game that doesn’t exist. Last time I looked at doing this (here) and (here) I talked myself out of it because I decided I only really wanted to play pre-written adventures and so I couldn’t do that with League. But playing Vampire last week I managed […]
Batman Gotham City Chronicles RPG Quickstart Review
Wow, in a week I’ve gone from not really reviewing RPGs to reviewing Quickstarts. Actually I reviewed the Marvel Multiverse Playtest… And now we have the boardgame turned RPG – Batman Gotham City Chronicles! Firstly I must point out this is only the quickstart, so a full rules set. But it’s 48 pages so there […]
Savage Worlds Supers Power companion Review
I don’t often do reviews but I couldn’t find one for this so… I owned the last version of the super powers companion but now we have the SWADE version. I didn’t do the kickstarter (and I missed the Fantasy companion as well – since they moved from kickstarter I’m clearly not getting the press […]
Main System Mechanics Musings
I don’t normally write about general RPG stuff, instead focusing on specific games. But all the work I’ve done on Marvel Multiverse (look here) has got me thinking about mechanics, and there’s a game or something in the back of my mind so I’m thinking about system mechanics and how they differ. Mainly what I’ll […]
GMLess D&D 5e Session 5
Pretty short one this, lots of combat… So after overthrowing the King and taking 2 weeks of downtime Igne had done some research and found clues to the “Elder Crypt of Power, located in a Tanglewood 100s of miles to the north east of High Stone near a town called Dermondale. Igne and Lyv took […]
GMLess D&D Session 4
Look here for previous episodes So having found the relic they wanted AND recovered the would-be girlfriend we were pretty sure the rebellion would really want Igne and Lyv’s help now, but we also weren’t going to wait around. The King had legalised Slavery, blocked movements and was generally being a massive dick! So we […]
GMLess D&D Session 3
So having taking a week off we picked up where we left off (see session 2) having recovered the Armor of Heroism. When we returned to the rebels we thought they would be super impressed, but they weren’t (bad roll) and they gave us another filler mission (card flip), “Acquire Love” (oracle roll). We decided […]
How are we playing GM-Less D&D?
So as written about in session 0, 1 and 2 we are playing a GMLess D&D Campaign. Why are we playing a GMLess D&D Game? Simple enough, because there’s only 2 of us. My regular group is myself and 2 players, but One of my players (Brian) and I have been meeting, just the 2 […]
Co-Op D&D 5e Session 2
We did a bit of world-building to start. We had intended the session to be more high magic and high tech and ended up in a farming community delivering a mcguffin to a tribe. (see here) Not quite what we had planned. So we added a City to our map and decided to get skyship […]
Co-Op D&D 5e Session 1
So we had worked out our World (not) and our characters and were ready to go (see here) The plan for the solo stuff was as follows: Use the Oracles from Ironsworn to get started and create locations (and NPCs) Use the Card system from Twilight 2000 (Free League version) to answer yes/no questions and […]
Co-Op D&D 5e Session 0
So having just started listening to Critical Role properly (Campaign 3 – I go between Youtube and Podcast) and watching the first 3 episodes of Legends of Vox Machina I’ve got the itch to play D&D. But we’ve just started a Tales from the Loop game, which has at least 3 more sessions to go […]
Do I even want to run a League Game? Part 3 -The appeal of Pre-written Vs my own adventures
One of the problems I’ve had in running a League game other than system is Adventures. Over recent years I’ve found it harder to have decent time to plan good adventures and have relied on pre-written ones. Even with these I have struggled to find the time to read them. So In this short series […]
Do I even want to run a League Game? Part 2 – What happened in the League games I did run
One of the problems I’ve had in running a League game other than system is Adventures. Over recent years I’ve found it harder to have decent time to plan good adventures and have relied on pre-written ones. Even with these I have struggled to find the time to read them. So In this short series […]
Do I even want to run a League Game? Part 1 – What games I have actually run in recent years
One of the problems I’ve had in running a League game other than system is Adventures. Over recent years I’ve found it harder to have decent time to plan good adventures and have relied on pre-written ones. Even with these I have struggled to find the time to read them. So In this short series […]
Arcane RPG – what do I want from a system?
So in a previous post I looked at which systems could be used for a League of Legends / Legends of runeterra / Arcane RPG. But there were no real winners (just plenty of losers). So in this post I will look at what I would want from a system to run such a game. […]
Arcane / Legends of Runeterra RPG – What system would I use?
I have wanted to have an RPG system to run a game in Runeterra (the setting for League of Legends/Legends of runeterra/Arcane) and we even dedicated a FluffnCrunch episode to it (Links: Anchor / Spotify). Now having watched Arcane (which was awesome by the way – check it out) I wanted to start having a […]
2d20: Creating a 2d20 Conversion
A few weeks ago on Fluff n Crunch (it was recorded over a month a go, podcasting is weird), Jeremy and myself discussed how to go about doing conversions (here). Firstly we classified the types of conversion: Re-Skin. When you basically use an exisiting rule-set and simply rename some of the parts of the system. […]
Fluff n Crunch, a gaming podcast
Way back in April a charming American called Jeremey messaged me about doing a podcast on 2d20. He had read a bunch of my blogs and was thinking of starting a 2d20 podcast and asked me to join. We’ve been recording it ever since on a mostly weekly basis with a break recently for my […]
Mini-reviews Part 2
This week I will cover a few more systems. 3 of these are ones I’ve played in last few months. Pathfinder 1e The Good Options. Lots of books, so lots of character optionsBestiaries. There are 6, and they are all greatAdventure Paths. A whole bunch of full length campaignsUltimate campaign. A great book with awesome […]
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