Roleplaying

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

I was reading today about social media influencers and Patreon. The gist of the article was that, in the early phase of a SM platform, they need high profile influencers to use their network, to draw in users. Typically, SM operators do this by paying influencers a revenue share of advertising income. Once the operators … Read more

So, this is the last day of #RPGaDAY2020 and it is time to award experience. So what have a learned? I normally try and apply all of these prompts to solo play, but many of the suggestions this year lent themselves more to traditional play that to solo play. This morning, I was playing Dungeon … Read more