GSF & An Anticipated Hiatus

December 29-31, 2007 — GSF & An Anticipated Hiatus Here’s a thread from the Miniature Page from a year ago concerning science fiction set in the 18th century, call it Georgian Science Fiction, Lacepunk, or what-you-will. Dispatches resume in the New Year! ... Read more

[Exalted] In Which I Present....

So my group are getting the Exalted bug again, which is awesome, especially since someone else has agreed to take on the GM role this time and leave me free to play. *joy* So in the spirit of me getting to actually play Exalted again I thought I'd post up one of the artifacts I created for my...... Read more

Classic Spycraft: The Silver Line [BUNDLE]

Publisher: Crafty Games
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Classic Spycraft: 1960s Decade Book
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The war might have been Cold, but the intrigue is red hot. Return to the era that perfected espionage in a brand new Spycraft setting! This thoroughly researched and highly detailed worldbook delves into the knuckle-biting tension of the Cold War, adapting the standard Spycraft modern-day rules fo... Read more

Not naturally being a game designer (Late Night Weirdness)

Tonight is my third night of hacking the SotC SRD for use with d20. I decided to start doing this as a learning exercise, and, yeah, I'm learning stuff. A good 90% of what I'm doing so far is just formatting and swapping out mechanical bits, though there are a few touches that are really all mine, things I'm hoping to develop out of the text that I really dig. Three days, and I'm on page 26.

While I do this, I'm listening to the Theory From The Closet thing with Clinton and others.

And... Read more

Perfect Century of Dresden

Item the first!

Levi is working on Perfect Century, a mash-up of the Spirit of the Century SRD and Perfect 20, a simplification of the d20 system's open content.

You can see his progress here, and it's pretty impressive:

http://the-tall-man.livejournal.com/137867.html

Item the second!

Bleeding playtester Rick Neal has finished up one of his playtest groups' cycles. Fate Points can still rule the roost, meaning higher-refresh mortals can have some big shining moments (Murphy with a chainsaw, anyone?)

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A SotC Esque Fantasy Game?

Hi all, I was just wondering if there are any fantasy rulesets that are kind of like SotC in system/theme? You know more about story (but still with some rules!) than long drawn out combats/situations? I ask this as someone who has up until now only been into the later kind, so please excuse my...... Read more

Game On V: The Last Monday Game

Characters Anne Carriere Lucky Firth Christian Manger Paul Roman We pick up back in Assiniboine Forest, just after nightfall, in the killing cold, after killing another ogre. Christian and Paul have a heart-to-heart about how Christian’s a FRIGGIN’ GHOUL! While this is going on, Anne spots shapes moving in the shadows, surrounding our heroes. Paul conjures some light, catching all the [...]... Read more

Check Item #2 and 4? about 6 more to go?

Okay, so I managed to upgrade to Wordpress 2.5. Not as easy as I thought. I also had to patch WP 2.5 to work on Redbrick as several features don’t work out the box and it’s still messy if your using a virtual host (like me). The livejournal-crossposter and Slave Me 2 Wordpress plugins both break [...]... Read more

[Spirit of the Century] One shots - Pregens

Hey all! I just picked up Spirit of the Century, and I am quite enamored with the system and mechanics (especially the Aspects -- it's the main reason I bought it). I'm planning on running a one-shot for members of my Gaming Club this Saturday, but I'm not sure how best to go about making...... Read more

Possible publishing

Greetings, I've already contacted Fred in the near past, but as everything is moving faster now I believe I need to ask my fellow list members as well... I'm... Read more

[Exalted] Give Me Inspirational Pictures

I saw the awesome that came out of doing this with Spirit of the Century, and I want to see what you guys do with this game. Also, I'm trying to make a character and feeling less juicy than I would like, and this should help.... Read more

It's the Holidays in April!

Spirit of the Season arrived in the mail yesterday! Thank you Evil Hat, IPR and all involved. Very nice little book. I liked the PDF, but the book is first... Read more

[SotC] Critters...

Has anybody here statted up any pulpy creatures for your players'... amusement? I'm talking about things that Modern Man Thought Was Extinct! Like: smilodons, mammoths, pterodactyls, T-rexes, dire wolves, velociraptors -- that kind of thing. Or even stuff like yeti, great apes, wolf packs, etc. I...... Read more

The Fate of my setting

(I'm new here, so the puns off of Fate are fresh in my mind - I'm sure y'all have done it to death already ;) ) Hi there! Just got on this list after posting... Read more

Origins 2008 Early April Update

Origins update: I missed the deadline for submitting events. I also probably missed the chance to make reservations at an affordable hotel near the convention center, although it doesn’t matter as much since I won’t be running any events (except, perhaps, for some impromptu open games). Oh, well. At least now it won’t be necessary [...]... Read more

Stat Out a famous fiction character!

I hit a stump in statting out one of my NPCs for my players and thought that a little game will help get the mental juices flowing. So, anyone who feels up to... Read more

Check Item #1? 7 more to go?

Item one complete. You can grab a copy of the latest TDO-Forum v0.3 here. It’s compatible with Wordpress 2.5 and all that. Enjoy. Upgrade and add some features to TDO-Forum for WP2.5 Test and Upgrade the Theme I?m currently using for WP2.5 Create a merge of TDO-Forum and my current custom Theme (for the forums) Update thedeadone.net to Wordpress [...]... Read more

A few questions about actual game play.

I have a few questions about actual game play. I have not gotten to run or play Spirit of the Century yet. I'm trying to get a few people together to play it... Read more

I am getting lost in upgrading?

I had a great blog post in mind and I couldn’t arsed to write it up properly. I have no idea what’s up with me. I’m currently swallowed by this Wordpress 2.5 upgrade and I have code on the brain?and?I?think it has become hard to disengage from that and just get back to the simple [...]... Read more

Spirit of the Century is OGL? Huh?

Just got back from my LGS where, shock of shocks, they had Spirit of the Century. After seeing a bazillion threads on how great/wonderful/awesome SOTC is, I bought it immediately. Just opened the cover when I saw...a copy of the OGL? What gives? As near as I can tell, there is nothing at all...... Read more

The History Place

April 8, 2008 — The History Place The History Place is a useful website for finding historical filler for your campaigns — timelines, historical photographs, &c. ... Read more

Kalyr RPG - An Iconic NPC

In Rob Donoghue’s design blog post what I want from setting, he lists three things he likes to see, one of which is faces: Faces are what they sound like - NPCs. I am not proposing a need for stat blocks or detailed backgrounds, and most of my needs can be satisfied with a sentence or [...]... Read more

Camapign Book Complete

Fate of Dominia has reached a milestone with the completion of the first story arch over 5 sessions. The gritty story of religious intrigue and dark fantasy is... Read more

Aspects: Fate 2 vs Fate 3?

A couple weeks ago, I read (or possibly heard on a podcast) somewhere, a discussion with Fred (I think... it may have ben Rob or Leonard) about the decision to... Read more

TDO Combat Fudge v0.1.1 ? The Blog Cut

This is a cut down version of TDO Combat Fudge v0.1 (a game system for roleplaying “combat”): Just the rules, zero explanations, zero context and zero examples. As requested, to make it more blog-digestable. The scope of this Fudge build is very specific. It only applies to combat (or drama in social context). It doesn’t cover [...]... Read more