I was discussing RPGs with an old friend yesterday, and a thing which stuck with me is him saying, about our high school RPG group, being a "combat table" is sticking with me.

Broadly, I don't think D&D is meant to be a robust roleplaying system. If we measure D&D by the contents of it's book, very few pages is spent considering actual roleplay, ( Read more... )

A game idea, on the AW/MH engine: A supers game, in the vein of Watchmen and other stories which are less about action, and more about the fucked up people who become super heroes. But pressure still probably comes from the outside, in the shape of villains - who may be other player characters ( Read more... )

Pulling an idea out of Rae, and a certain Fiasco game in which an alien STD played a huge part in the game, there's totally a Monsterhearts skin or a set of moves that one could build out of a supernatural STD ( Read more... )

I don't think I've played this since high school. Not only is the game itself still fun, but the characterizations are much better than I remember them being. The opening two hours are really strong, and there are narrative threads being woven into things really early in the game that won't come up for a long time. For the first four or five ( Read more... )

Surgery Simulator 2013
Time commitment: An hour or so.
I played this after watching the hilarious Idle Thumbs cast about it. So, in this game, you control a single arm with an amazing amount of fidelity: You individually control the arm movement through x and y planes, the arm's movement through the z plane, wrist movement, and each finger ( Read more... )

You know, next time I play a post-apocalyptic game, I think I should like to rip off a character class from Rifts that I've always loved: The Rogue Scholar ( Read more... )

Our Heroes fail to prevent the Big Bad from sundering the world. They escape the place, but also lose each other. The continents are thrown apart. The land and sea are poisoned ( Read more... )

I've wanted to include something like Exalted's stunting or PTA's fan mail mechanics in the Fate system for a while now; Mechanics based around audience participation, essentially. I've thought about a few ways to do it, most of which involved the movement of fate points around the table. These seem like they'd work, but here's another idea, and ( Read more... )

Could you use our table's "wide cast" setup in order to do something Fringe-like, where there are other versions of one's self out there? Likely with the other players playing alternative versions of one's own character, to allow for self-alternative-self interactions? Having the other person *not* be your character might be just enough distance ( Read more... )

A game about the French resistance during World War II.

Set in a town or city, or possibly moving locations.

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