I recently wandered across this article, several years old, which fairly accurately explains my issues with D&D4. In essence, 4th edition is a fairly entertaining combat game, but is not, in fact, a roleplaying game. At least, not as I view them. I feel like RPGs should be essentially simulationist in nature. I want the game's mechanics to be an ( Read more... )

So, everybody died in Call of Cthulhu tonight. It wasn't my fault this time, though. There was a Mythos creature (a servitor of the Outer Gods, apparently), and we went crazy before it killed us. Gives me a chance to play that character idea I had based on Dreams in the Witch-House.

I played my first game of Call of Cthulhu tonight. Apparently summoning horrors from beyond time and space is a bad idea. I kind of had an idea of walking the edge of using dark magics to combat the forces of evil, but apparently unlike in Star Wars, walking the line of the Dark Side just gets players killed ( Read more... )

Hey, guess what? I'm back to work on Mission: Zodiac. I kinda got some ideas, and I'm interested in working on the system again. I know I said before that it lacks purpose, but then I realised that it's only because I refused to give it purpose. Did you know that I never asked anybody to play/playtest the game with me? Kind of silly to complain ( Read more... )

I've decided to go back to putting work up here, mostly because a bunch of people read my LJ (and probably don't care). That, and I haven't felt like bothering darkain about my space on darkain.com, nor have I decided how I would rework the site to shift over to the new "generic gaming article" format. Anyway, today you're getting the people of Mission: ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about purpose. And I think that I do some things that don't really have purpose. Chief among them happens to be Mission: Zodiac. Now, I know crashghost really likes reading M:Z, but that's kind of where my problem is. Nobody plays it. It seems like it would be much more useful to put my work (and, likely, many of the same concepts) into ( Read more... )