Ten Favorite Mechanics #5 – Franchise Dice & Stress from InSpectres

#5 – Franchise Dice & Stress from InSpectres In 2002, InSpectres made tasty hamburger from a lot of sacred cows. Along with a whole new way of creating mysteries, and encouraging player interest and investment in each others’ characters through the use of the confessional, InSpectres also threw everything we thought we knew about advancement … Read more

Ten Favorite Game Mechanics #6 – The Nitu Tarot from Ganakagok

#6 – The Nitu Tarot from Ganakagok A number of games over the years have attempted to make use of tarot cards: the vague allusion of Amber’s “Trumps”, the complete rewrite of Everyway’s fortune deck, the beautifully-produced Mage: the Ascension deck, to the just-plain-oddness of Psychosis. I’ve never seen any of them succeed as brilliantly … Read more

Moving, and SHU on Actual People, Actual Play

Due to the increase in intrusive advertising and other technical issues, I’ll be leaving LiveJournal for the greener pastures of WordPress. My new blog is Multitudinous Seas. I’ll be posting updates here at least through the 10 Favorite Mechanics series, but eventually I’ll be posting over there exclusively. I have the day off work Monday … Read more