You scored as Storyteller. You're more inclined toward the role playing side of the equation and less interested in numbers or experience points. You're quick to compromise if you can help move the story forward, and get bored when the game slows down for a long planning session. You want to play out a story that moves like it's orchestrated by ( Read more... )

Weapons of the Gods sort of has a variable time/distance system.

Weapon ranges are measured in turns (how many turns away an opponent is). Turn lengths are measured primarily as how long it takes everyone present to act once.

Of course, they then muck it up a little by introducing some approximate measures, such as a person being able to move ( Read more... )

Having just finished re-reading the rulebook, I think I'm ready to start running the Nobilis game. I think either the 31st of December or the 7th of January are our best bets, due to schedule congestion around the holiday season. I'd like to start around 1:00 and run until around 5:30. This will be a test to see how much we can fit into four and a ( Read more... )

Tremble, mortals, for I possess a copy of Weapons of the Gods.

The book is very pretty and very definitely written by RS Borgstrom. There's a couple of sentences in the introduction with advice for martial artists from ancient fantasy China that actually find themselves reading the book.

Useful for those planning on playing in my game; potentially interesting for anyone else.
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Okay, let's try and get this whole Nobilis thing started. I'd prefer if we could start the game on the relevant day in the early/mid-afternoon (say, between 1:00 and 2:00) and continue to whenever's convenient for isisbaebe. Late evening preferably. Much of the character creation stuff gets done in groups, but I'd be glad to talk over individual Noble ( Read more... )

This post is the product of a discussion on RPG system design with podthulhu, which I have attempted to turn into a coherent essay.

For my next trick, I plan to steal fire from the gods. Stay tuned!
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Some random linkage for the developers in the audience:
Catwalk:
An object-relational mapping tool for TurboGears that seems to largely obliviate the need for many kinds of CRUD interfaces. Possible contender for the throne until now occupied by WebObjects' EO Modeller.

gjc314159's reaction: TuboGears WINS.

My reaction: You know that scene in the Goblet ( Read more... )

At the command of isisbaebe, I am going to be running a Nobilis game. Local people only - running RPGs online doesn't work out well. Time and place TBD once I know who. No prior experience necessary, though familiarity with the genre would be good. Neil Gaiman's work, for example, or even just reading Hitherby Dragons, RSB's story-blog.

(Though the " ( Read more... )

Apparently, a demo of Final Fantasy XII ships with Dragon Warrior VIII. For those of you (like myself) not interested in buying a Dragon Warrior game, 1Up has a article on the demo.

Based on reading the preview, it looks quite interesting. The gameplay objectives seem slightly more varied than other recent Final Fantasy games, which had sort of ( Read more... )