Nothing's RPG Zone

I have been watching Andor as of late and I was reminded of how good I think CAPERS is of a system do do star wars in. So I made a modified version of the lifepath system found in the expanded book to be more suitable to star wars. You can find it here.

  Hello, welcome to a strange thing I am attempting to start. The great magic mask relay. It begins with one person describing a magical mask, it can be for any length and for any setting they wish, it can even have mechanical implications if the writer desires.  Once they have written this, they are going to tag (be polite, ask them if they are fine being tagged in) another person to write a magic mask and this chain continues until 100 masks have been described. They make sure to link to the blogpost you were tagged in and then once the person after you had made their post link to theirs. The blog posts should be formatted as Mask #: Mask Name. That’s pretty much all the rules, make sure the person you tag reads the rules. Mask of the Iron Warrior Back when iron was first forged the warlords of old, conquers of valleys and mountains, demanded their warriors be unstoppable. The warlocks that fueled the hellfire forges, the only thing hot enough to make iron, were more tha...

  I recently put up a bunch of additional damage matrices for weapons found in traditional fantasy rpgs not in troika as well as stuff like getting hit by trains or caught in explosions up on itch.. I thought I might as well add some weapons related house rules I use for troika to my blog as well. Higher Lethality For those in search of even higher lethality, a player character’s advanced skill is added to their damage rolls. Enemies add a third of their skill to damage rolls. If they are particularly dangerous a half, surprisingly weak a quarter. Dual Wielding The attacker Rolls Vs using the lesser of two Weapon Skills for each weapon. The attack may roll damage with both weapons using a d3. If their secondary weapon is used primarily for riposting, then initiated Roll Vs attacks are made with the primary weapon Skill, non-initiated Rolls Vs use the secondary weapon Skill. The attack may roll damage with the primary weapon as normal.

  Recently I reconnected with a friend of mine and we talked about where we had been chilling out online. I mentioned that I was in a discord server for ttrpg people who are leftists who like telling edgy jokes but don’t like saying slurs so it was a pretty good place to chill. She then asked me if there are any hot takes from that server about ttrpgs, I explained that the main thing was that we believe adventure design is just as if not more important than system design. She then said “I want to know more about what that means as a mode or philosophy of play?” So I explained and I guess I want to elaborate on it somewhat and do it as a blogpost, and a slightly wankery one I guess.  This is the first tenant, and something that went unspoken but does inform a lot of how I see the world. Folk art practices are just as legitimate as commercial art practices. We interact with folk art storytelling all the time when we interact with friends and family because people like tellin...