Eddie Lawson goes to Tunisia, and things start off so well…
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Operation: Chimera, a Scalphunter playthrough
Here’s another playthrough of my solo-game Scalphunter
Things did not go quite so smoothly for Eddie Lawson this time.
Operation: Acrobat – A Scalphunter Playthrough
Since launching my solo game Scalphunter I’ve been asked a few times to post some examples of how it works. Here’s a run through of a game I did tonight, with all the rolls and outcomes exactly as they happened with no fudging. It also has the little narrative notes I made as I went through it to add some story-flesh to the bare mechanical bones.
Continue reading “Operation: Acrobat – A Scalphunter Playthrough”Scalphunter – my new solo game
Just Monika
If anyone out there has not played (or learned of) the game Doki Doki Literature club, avoid spoilers including this post, go get it, and go play it. It is without hyperbole, in my opinion, the finest and most innovative work of cosmic/reality horror in recent years and it employs its medium uniquely and perfectly.
Continue reading “Just Monika”The Road goes ever on and on…
A brief update about the new RPG travel system I came up with for my Fantasy campaign, and that I mentioned in this post.
Continue reading “The Road goes ever on and on…”Horns of the Hunter
A scurrilous in-world artefact from my long-running fantasy RPG campaign (ridiculously vast campaign lore here). It’s a slanderous folk song from about a century-and-a-half prior to the events of the campaign, addressing the rumours prevalent at the time that Riala of House Genlith (their banner symbol a wolf) was cheating on her husband the Crown Prince Elderan with a lord of House Malmor (banner symbol a raven).
Continue reading “Horns of the Hunter”There and back again
Journeys in role-playing games have always been a bit of a bugbear for me. I’ve been at it since 1981 and seen (and tried) lots of different systems and methods and I’m still looking for the ideal way.
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Otherworlds 