I’m looking for amazing, legendary, and awesome fellow geeks to help me with a performance art shoot. I want to put together a virtual crowd all shouting Nanu Nanu (or Nanoo Nanoo – I never was much good with spelling). Through the power of video editing, you will become part …
Click grabbing headline aside, I really am going to talk about the difference between different skill types. I’m going to draw my examples from both S3 and Pathfinder but really these should apply universally. Skills in RPGs can be expressed along a few binary axis: passive vs active constant vs at-will critical …
Truly Tiny Gods was an idea I came up with years ago. A sort of automated story driven by code and user interactions. I never finished it and still think about creating it. I even registered a Facebook app that I never developed. Life got in the way. This is …
Most of the time, what I post on Tumblr stays on Tumblr. This time, however, I’m posting it here too. I would like to introduce you to a new Tumblr blog that I have recently started – Amused Geek. It is part mood board for things that inspire me to …
A good GM is a GM that is ready, willing, and able to kill player characters. A bad GM is one that enjoys doing so. I want to explain why a GM needs to be prepared to kill player characters and why it makes a better game for players and GM …
I’m guessing I’ve probably lost about half of you with the headline but I’ve been giving some thought to a different way to do online games as a storytelling medium. Before you look at me and say something that offensive and probably mostly true, hear me out. You see I’m …
When designing games, we sometimes use the inverse square law. Warning: here be nerd-bate. The inverse square law is a lot easier to understand than the last round of maths geekery I posted. When geeky writers have a little too much time on their hands, they read geeky blogs and …
Yesterday I spent a lot of time on the p-curve for the S3 system. Today, I think I have solved it. Here be a lot of RPG dice maths and some pretty graphs. Warning: If you thought that the last one had a lot of maths, you ain’t seen nothing yet. …
I’ve been looking at the dice rolling for the S3 skills system and it turns out the p-curve might be broken. This is my attempt to fix the p-curve. Warning: maths and numbers ahead. I was thinking about writing a simplified version of the Mad Science setting for S3 as …
One of the limits I set myself for the Mad Science setting was encounters without combat. It’s right there in the introduction: There is no combat – solve your problems like a grown up. Encounters without combat: harder than it sounds S3 (which needs a better name) and the Mad Science …
