This is an attempt to bring the risk-management decisions of my Dark Souls inspired combat to a more contemporary form of fisticuffs. Be it for Old West, modern-day, cyberpunk, or sci-fi type adventures, I hope these rules give you some bang for your buck (it helps that it's free!) Image: Oscillator by Kevin Moran What … Continue reading There Was A Firefight: Gunfighting Rules for Into the Odd/Electric Bastionland/Cairn
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Dodging, Blocking & Parrying in Practice
Image credits: Merciless by Vlad Marica I've started playtesting my aforementioned Dodge, Block & Parry system! I've tied it into the Weapon system as well, and it's working quite good, so far! Design Notes Fight back makes combat even more lethal, by allowing for essentially a double attack (attacking in response to the enemy => … Continue reading Dodging, Blocking & Parrying in Practice
Dark Souls-inspired Weapons for Into the Odd/Cairn
Next up in my series on Cairn-inspired writing, weaponry! I love the quick combat of Cairn, so I don't want to slow that down too much, nor do I want the character sheet to be filled with a load of special maneuvers. The main goals for this project, which I've given the working title of … Continue reading Dark Souls-inspired Weapons for Into the Odd/Cairn
4 Homebrew Rules To Make D&D Follow Fiction, Not Rules
I've been using the lockdown for, you guessed it, a lot of tabletop rpg's. All this time has given me the opportunity to explore more outside of the boundaries of strictly D&D. As I'm about to return to D&D, I want to include mechanics that I've fallen in love with from systems such as Dungeon … Continue reading 4 Homebrew Rules To Make D&D Follow Fiction, Not Rules
Right Behind You: Building A Combat Encounter Around Teleporting
Short-range teleporters can make for awesome combat encounters! Here, I use Dungeondraft to create some quick examples.
“How Were We Supposed To Know That?” – Introducing Fair Gameplay Twists in D&D
What can we learn from video games to introduce interesting gameplay twists ("gimmicks") in a fair way?