This is my attempt at a "New Crobuzon," as described by judd_sonofbert.

The "rules" are:

1) Take your three favorite human-ish monsters out of the Monster Manual and they are minority citizens in the city. Detail how they get along, how being in the city has culturally changed them and what niches they fill in the city. How do the powers that rule the city ( Read more... )

I posted a summary of actual play for the Oxford 1605 event I ran at Camp Nerdly. Overall, it was a blast and players had lots of fun, but it had numerous problems.

At the Indie Designer Round Table on Sunday, Vinny Salzillo, the coordinator for Dreamation, addressed the room. I want to lead into each topic with direct quotes from Vinny. I may be paraphrasing a bit, but these capture his sentiment.

"Make sure everything is perfect." Vinny wants to help us protect our brand. He gently told us to make sure that ( Read more... )

Verge claims to be a cyberpunk game. Well, technically, it claims to be a post-cyberpunk game; I suspect I need to write a short section that explains both cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk are.

Last week, Verge's #2 fan, Jason Corley*, asked me why I think Verge is a cyberpunk game. Between the two of us, and later amended by Raffaele Manzo (rafu) on ( Read more... )

I wrote up a new conflict resolution system based on my idea of jockeying for position (advantage) before finally resolving it with a die roll ( Read more... )

I'm running two events at Dreamation:

R205: Verge (PLAYTEST); "Even Philip K. Dick Wasn't This Crazy" by Adam Dray. An INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED GAME in production by Adam Dray - Part of the Indie Games Explosion! This is a playtest of Adam's very non-traditional science-fiction/cyberpunk role playing game. Play begins with quickly snapping together ( Read more... )

A month ago, I mused here and on Story Games about my "Transit City" idea. In brief, it's a D&D 4E setting concept where a whole city and its inhabitants get sucked into a monstrously dangerous, magical world (more or less the typical D&D world) and the city's surviving people start warping into magical forms (more or less the typical D&D races and ( Read more... )

Yoinked from drivingblind:

Shrouded Agendas: The Purifiers


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I have finished revising my post-cyberpunk RPG, Verge, and it is ready for internal playtest. If you're especially brave, you might try to run it for your friends. It's strange, but it produces interesting and fun stories (at least in prior versions).

This round of revisions include a complete rewrite of the resolution system, inspired by In a ( Read more... )

So I have this idea for a D&D campaign. Maybe some day a product I can sell ( Read more... )