Optional Accords for Goblyn Market The key to a one-shot adventure starting off on the right foot is making the players invested in their characters. Since it’s only one and done sending a character into… Read More »Drive Role Playing with Shared Histories for One Shots
In celebration of Longshot Behind the Radiation Curtain at the Commonwealth Casino being published I created a couple free to download resources for Party First. It got me thinking about how I play the game… Read More »Avoid TPKs with 8 Easy House Rules for Party First
Knock, knock. Who’s there? Curse of Warding. Again?! Unlike other systems curses are more than neat contrivances to drive a plot forward. They are a currency to be traded, bartered, and paid. They are ancient… Read More »Building a Better Curse for Goblyn Market
Playtesting is in full swing for future products (and seeing if current ones need updating!) for Goblyn Market. We had another full table of four players including two newbies to the system whose only background… Read More »The Odd Person Out Syndrome in Goblyn Market and Curses!
Reformatting Adventures to Mirror Columbo Goblyn Market adventures are unlike anything I have ever written. Waaaay back on November 9th I wrote a Kickstarter update describing how Goblyn Market affairs are structured. If you missed… Read More »The Wisdom of a Bumbling Detective Revisited
We’ve all heard the old idiom ‘A watched pot never boils’. Well, the same applies to tabletop rpg games! Last weekend I participated in a charity ‘fun’ run/walk lugging a five-year-old in a wagon (a… Read More »A Watched Game Never Publishes
Kickstarter Update #15 In the past four days I have been given the initial page layout AND the first 38 minutes of recording for our live action play of Goblyn Market for approval! The end… Read More »Gaslamp Light at the End of the Tunnel
Kickstarter Update #13 After all the cables had been wound just right. Cameras polished and fit back into their snug foam inserts. Tripods returned to whatever circle of hell is sequestered by ‘things you will… Read More »Lights! Camera! Cue the Dirty Pigeons for the Lemon Drop Lady of Old Smoke!
A Goblyn Market Kickstarter Update #12 I’m not going to hide it. I’m having a ball! What is supposed to be the grind part of the process has instead been a joy for me. On… Read More »Experience is the Best Teacher, One Affair Begets Many
Hard 30 – Meta-tations: Spin Down as a Tool There are currently 11 ways to sabotage your opponent’s resources with the much-maligned spindown mechanic. But should you? What is your end goal? Is it worth… Read More »Ashes Reborn Spin Down is a Valuable Tool, Not a Way of Life