Social Rank in Flashing Blades is a significant part of the game's intended reward system ; more than a means of 'keeping score,...

I've written about my approach to social skills and roleplaying , the significance of non-player character attributes , and a new npc at...

So far, I've written about my approach to social skills and roleplaying , the significance of non-player character attributes , and a ne...

On Wednesday I wrote about one of the pitfalls associated with using a player character's ability or skill score as the target number fo...

Okay, let's get this out of the way right from the giddyup: roleplaying is not 'talking in funny voices.' In-character dialog ma...

A recent thread on theRPGsite asks the question, "Karma, action points, extra dice/points are they a sign of a weak system[?]. I fir...

Jumping onto the bad guy's horse and knocking him off is awesome; missing, hitting the ground, and getting trampled isn't. On the ot...

A 2e Boot Hill character's attributes are Speed, Gun Accuracy, Throwing Accuracy, Bravery, Strength, and Experience. Five of the six af...

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement. - Nasruddin ( attributed ) Most experience systems in roleplayi...

Pop quiz, hotshot. What do Santa Claus, Vito Corleone, and Emperor Palpatine have in common? I channeled all of them while roleplaying Car...

There's a sprawling discussion on Big Purple's d20 ghetto right now dismissing the putative old-school notion of 'rulings, not ...

There are two kinds of people in the world . . . [ insert joke here ]. Simulating real-world activities in a game often requires some meas...

Flashing Blades ' maritime supplement, High Seas , introduces rules for creating characters such as pirates and sailors and their career...

Over the last couple of weeks, I've written at some length over the many ways in which I put together random encounters for my campaign....

Rory’s Story Cubes are a remarkably simple and effective means for inspiring creative thinking and problem solving in all of us. Simply toss...

As described yesterday , random encounters "represent the 'living world' which the adventurers inhabit, serving up a variety of...