Peter Rudin-Burgess

I was thinking today and I came up with a neat little game idea. Initially it was just a solo system. Take two dice, one red, one blue. Roll the pair. If red is higher, the answer is yes. If blue is higher, the answer is no. On a double, a plot twist occurs. Then … Read more

Tod mentioned Barbarians of Lemuria and the setting neutral Everywhen yesterday. This had me thinking about solo world building. I was world building this week using simple yes/no questions. In the image on the right, any double [11,22,33…] is a critical, which you can read as yes and.. or no, and… This turned into an … Read more

At the beginning of the year, I was playing Castles & Crusades with my paladin called Hanson. He met a sad end, being eaten by a polar bear on an arctic ice flow, but we are not all destined to reach a high level. C&C uses what it calls the Siege Engine for resolving skill … Read more

So this week I have been looking at The Lore System. This is a Basic Roleplaying (BRP) based system with its own SRD, making it easy to develop for. For me, what makes it stand out is the inclusion of a lot of narrative elements. It is very much like Gumshoe meets Call of Cthulhu … Read more

The blog post referenced in this video is this one: Weird Solo Patreon? I think there are three lessons to take from this video. Write social media posts/create videos the match the platform and audience to you looking for, or don’t blast the same message out everywhere. Play to your strengths, if you don’t like … Read more