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Showing posts with label XP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label XP. Show all posts
Sunday, January 5, 2025

Session-Based Advancement vs XP from Combat RAW

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 It's really weird to me how completely disconnected the main level-up options in the Dungeon Master's Guide are. Here's the tex...
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Friday, September 26, 2014

High Degree of Randomness

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I've played Shadows of Brimstone 5 times now: twice at demos with the publishers, and three times at home. I'm enjoying the game s...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Mandatory Career Completion

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I'm running a Warhammer Fantasy RolePlay 3rd Ed campaign, and I've just hit my first real need for a major House Rule. (There's ...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Mid-Game Outcome Choices in Remember Tomorrow

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This is my third post on Remember Tomorrow, a light cyberpunk RPG I played recently. This post analyzes some mid-game strategic choices you...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Planet Degas

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On Sunday, I started a campaign of 3:16 Carnage Amongst The Stars . It's a military sci-fi RPG with very abstract mechanics. The primar...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Right Over My Thick-Skulled Caveman Head

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According to the Og design journals at the firefly games site , I missed a pretty major joke in the original Land of Og. Characters never l...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Experience and Training Times

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I posted the following to the Scion Forums today. It was in response to someone saying that the "Speed Reader" knack should have a...
Friday, March 28, 2008

XP and Character Advancement in Orky Heresy

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Rather than using the existing (and convoluted) Dark Heresy system for character advancement, the Orky port to DH will use the simpler rules...
Friday, January 25, 2008

possible alternate XP system

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One thing I'm considering is a major top-down XP revamp for Scion. This is a very rough draft of such a houserule, and it assumes Legen...
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Saturday, January 12, 2008

Scion of Exalted

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Scion's mechanics are lifted whole-cloth from Exalted 2nd Edition. Individual powers are different, but the combat rules are all the sam...
Wednesday, December 26, 2007

PCs at Xmas

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I like to give holiday presents to the PCs in my campaigns. (I haven't been able to do so in recent years, due to campaigns ending right...
Thursday, December 20, 2007

Speaking of Calvin's Clocks: Bridging the XP gap

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XP is supposed to be a all about rewarding players who: achieve certain goals, role-play well, -or even just- show up consistently. However...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

XP at High Legend

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I continue to be a tiny bit nervous about the high-levels of play in Scion. The XP system is set up so that PCs can advance something every ...
Friday, December 7, 2007

Improvement by Time and Training

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In general, I don't like systems that require or incentivize training. Frankly, training is rarely exciting. An occasional montage might...

Experience Systems

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All this talk about the clocks in Continuum has gotten me thinking about XP systems I have known, and what I have thought of them. I'll ...
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