In many role-playing games, a key is a trait which rewards your character for acting in an interesting and idiomatic way. In Satellite of Love, your game piece will have keys, but they work a little differently. Keys are ways in which you want other pieces to interact with your piece, rather than ways in which you yourself act ( Read more... )

 Regarding role-playing games, my official stance is that I don’t like pre-play-the planning and preparatory phases which precede actual play, such as character generation. It detracts from the time and momentum of play, it leads to railroading and deprotagonization, it contradicts the doctrine of the unfettered mind as expounded by Takuan Sōhō, ( Read more... )

I was playing Persona 3 today when I had an idea about what I’ve felt is missing from Satellite of Love (the Scott Pilgrim/Homestuck RPG-apologies to those of you who already know what SoL is but I'm not going to assume anyone's read my previous posts, because I'm not very interesting). I was managing my character’s collection of magic daemons from ( Read more... )

I have a few targets I want to hit with Satellite of Love, the Scott Pilgrim/Homestuck tabletop RPG. Here are some of the ones that come to mind as I type ( Read more... )

Samurai swords notwithstanding, the game I've actually worked the most on right now is Satellite of Love. I’m overhauling the system once again ( Read more... )

( What the Christ is a morph sword? )

My friend Dave has been thinking about these recently, and as I have a new game in my head I thought I'd try 'em too ( Read more... )

The fruits of this weekend's labor have arrived. The Universal Character Profile is available for your perusal, use, and redistribution. I also have a condensed list of the fields in spreadsheet formatI intend the UCP to speed creation of player and non-player characters for role-playing games. The fields I published assume a modern realistic ( Read more... )

"Lula," I said to myself, "if I am to create the ultimate character profile, then I'll have to look at a lot of character profiles. Where can I find the largest aggregations of character profiles on the Internet ( Read more... )