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magic stuff for Neverwood
Breathers and Binders
Callers and Finders
Workers and Sinkers
Slingers and Drinkers
Sinners, believers,
Witches and grievers
Squanderers, keepers,
Sowers and reapers
Soldiers, seekers,
Writers and speakers
Killers, protectors,
Goblins and spectres
By sun and by night,
By scent and by sight,
By heart and by rote,
By the Word that he spoke,
By bullet and blade,
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buying stuff
I just dropped a bunch of money on some games.
My Life With Master because it's been on my list for like a year now.
3:16 Carnage Among the Stars because it looks like fun & like something my cousin James would love, and because I suspect that there's something in there that will help me with some GMing issues in GRiM.
Dread: the First Book of ( Read more... ) -
Crippled Masters
CRIPPLED MASTERS
A friend of mine picked up a DVD with three C-rate kung fu flicks on it. Y’know the ones: lousy picture quality, bad dubbing, absurd sound effects, minimal (if any) plot. One of these was called Crippled Masters.
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MASK adjustment
I'm changing the resolution mechanic for MASK. Even though I haven't tested it yet.
Here's the breakdown:
First, whoever has initiative (by default, the hero) states his intent.
For an example, let's say that Boss Franconi is holding Nancy Boseman, the plucky investigative journalist, at gunpoint, threatening to shoot her if you, the hero MagSeven, ( Read more... ) -
Crow's Hoard
This was written in response to Jonathan Walton's challenge here: www.story-games.com/forums/comments.php
CROW’S HOARD
It is commonly known that certain crows gather shiny objects and hoard them in their nests. There are plenty of theories, but nobody knows exactly why they do this. Maybe the crows don’t even know. Personally, I think it’s because ( Read more... ) -
Strategies of the Rustbelt
These are ramifications and implications of various rules in the Rustbelt. I still don't know if I want to include them in the first (ie non-ashcan) edition, or if it's cooler for people to figure them out on their own.
THE THREAT OF VIOLENCE
The effects of violence are HUGE. It is really, really easy to inflict lethal amounts of damage on someone ( Read more... ) -
"If the rule you followed led you to this, then what use was that rule?"
If you want fictional sources that will explain what the Rustbelt is supposed to be about, and you only have time to watch one movie, make it NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN.
It has everything. Hunger, vice, faith, woe, will, courage, tenacity, depravity, hope, tessellations, human connections, home surgery, violence, the Where's-the-Money motif, gallows ( Read more... ) -
The Burning Wheel
The Burning Wheel arrived in the mail yesterday. I'm about a third of the way through the first book ( Read more... ) -
stuff
Just Finished Reading: Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving. A collection of short tales based on legends and folktales he heard when visiting the Alhambra, and some account of his stay there. Not as good as the stuff in The Sketch Book, but still good. There were plenty of enchantments, ghosts, and sorcerers, and the Seal of Solomon even, ( Read more... ) -
American Wizards in a nutshell
SETTING
The game revolves around the campus of the American Institute of Wizard Arts, the USA’s foremost university for wizards. The time period is today. The university is not hidden from non-magical types, but it does not intersect with their universe. They just don’t notice it.
The campus and the city surrounding it are created by the ( Read more... )