Giving Powergamers What They Deserve…
Posted by Runeslinger on February 5, 2014 · 6 Comments
Chances are if you asked a room full of gamers to list some negative player types, powergamer, min/maxer, rules lawyer, and thespian would vie for first place… Then the powergamer would take out the min/maxer from a position of advantage in a flurry of massive dice rolls, and the rules lawyer would drown in the … Continue reading →
Filed under Running Games, The Blog, The Gamers · Tagged with balance in RPGs, power gamer, power gaming, powergamer, powergaming, roleplaying games
Saturday Seed ~ 193 (A Time of War)
Posted by Runeslinger on February 1, 2014 · Leave a Comment
This is a seed for the Battletech roleplaying game, A Time of War. While for convenience of writing it will make the assumption the characters are mechwarriors, no such requirement is needed. The seed This seed is all about storms, calms, and storms to come. Planting the seed This seed can be planted during a … Continue reading →
Filed under A Time of War, Battletech, Battletech / Mechwarrior, Saturday Seeds · Tagged with A Time of War, Battletech, Mechwarrior, Plot Ideas, roleplaying games, RPG, Story Hooks
Saturday Seed ~ 192 (All for One)
Posted by Runeslinger on January 25, 2014 · Leave a Comment
This is a seed for the supernatural, swashbuckling, musketeers RPG from Triple Ace Games, All for One: Regime Diabolique. The seed This seed is all about old problems coming home to roost. Planting the seed This seed can be planted at any national event or festival, when the city population expands with visitors, delegates, merchants and … Continue reading →
Filed under All for One: Regime Diabolique, Saturday Seeds, Ubiquity · Tagged with All for One, Plot Ideas, roleplaying games, RPG, Story Hooks, Ubiquity
Saturday Seed ~ 191 (The Morrow Project)
Posted by Runeslinger on January 18, 2014 · Leave a Comment
This is a seed for the post-nuclear war reclamation and rebuilding RPG, the Morrow Project. The seed This seed focuses on how the universe can be cruel and kind in the same toss of the dice. What we think we know, we may not. What was safe, may be safe no longer…despite appearances to the … Continue reading →
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Saturday Seed ~ 190 (Star Wars)
Posted by Runeslinger on January 11, 2014 · Leave a Comment
This is a seed for whatever version of a Star Wars roleplaying game you might play, with a strong bias toward those who hold little to no sympathy for the Galactic Empire. The seed This seed focuses on criminal interplay in the shadows of the Outer Rim. While not necessarily requiring the characters to be … Continue reading →
Filed under Edge of the Empire, Saturday Seeds, Star Wars · Tagged with Plot Ideas, roleplaying games, RPG, Star Wars role-playing games, Story Hooks




