Posts Tagged by drifting

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Using Game Mechanics to Establish Tone, a Guest Article by Mike Nystul
November 21, 2012 Posted by
cairn-cover

Today’s guest author is Mike Nystul, Lead Designer at Castle Nystul Games. Mike’s game design career goes back decades, and as you may have guessed the D&D spell “Nystul’s Magic Aura” is named for him. He’s currently running a Kickstarter campaign for Cairn, a fantasy RPG where the PCs play woodland animals, and when he offered to write a guest article about one of the game’s eminently drift-friendly mechanics, Harmony, we were excited to share it with you. Thanks, Mike! When writing my new game…

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Games Within The Game
June 3, 2011 Posted by

I’m likely going to make the world meta-explode with this one, but let’s take that risk and talk about games. Not just the tabletop games we play, or the video games  we play when we aren’t running a game or playing in one. No, let’s talk about games within the games we play. Amalgamation When we sit down to play a tabletop RPG, we are actually playing a conglomeration of a lot of different types of games. The mechanical aspects of engaging in a combat…

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Player Wish Lists
June 3, 2009 Posted by
GMingAdvice01

Based on Nojo’s comment, which alerted me to the idea of player wish lists, and Matthew’s excellent article, Improve Your Game Guaranteed, talking about treasure and loot, I got to thinking about 4e’s use of player wish lists.  Though I’ve never run a 4e game, and I’ve only played in a game or two at conventions, there are a lot of fun elements to it. One of those elements is the use of a Player Loot Wish List. The Concept At the beginning of each…