Last year, I wrote “Camelot’s Shame” for my wife in honor of our tenth anniversary.

Today, I am releasing, for the first time, “Camelot’s Shame” to the public.

Camelot’s Shame is a role-playing game inspired by the various legends of Arthurian Camelot and uses a trick-taking, Tarot-based mechanic.

Both hard and soft cover versions are available ( Read more... )

Note that this is not an angry huff - more of a sigh and an acknowledgement ( Read more... )

I'm toying with an idea of using setting relevant scales to define characters.
Both ends of each scale should have some mechanical advantage, even if it just interacting with characters of a similar scale ("Birds of a feather...")

I'm looking for your thoughts in general about the idea of scales for character definition.
I'm looking for your thoughts ( Read more... )

For Discussion ( Read more... )

Magentamom and I watched the CSI episode A Space Oddity over the weekend.  This had the dual effect of putting in the mood for con season and putting me doubly in the mood for some old-school sci-fi.

So - as a reward for kicking yard tail on Saturday and as motivation for tackling much over due laundry folding Sunday (instead of being outside) - I ( Read more... )

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When I think about old school fantasy gaming, I think about all sorts of sizes of dice - including some made up for April Fool's Day tables.  When I think about old school supers gaming, my experience was quite different.  I think about d% for the old Marvel game and pile of d6s for Champions ( Read more... )

So, I created the image below for the S7S Remix Contest, but forgot to upload it.

Seems a shame to waste it, so here it is anyway:


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Thanks to everyone for their comments on core of old school Supers gaming.  Let me recap to see if I've captured the essences of what you said.

If you are a super hero, you:

........do Cool stuff,
...solve Mysteries,
.......live Your life, and
..............Kick butt

Does that sound about right?