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Stikfas + 1000 Blank Cards = StikBash!
StikBash was my first frankengame. At its core, it’s just a mash-up of KootiKooti, 1000 Blank Cards and Z-G. The original KootiKooti rules form the basis of StikBash (at the bottom of the page)....
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Locksmiths & Lookouts: Role-playing in the World of Monaco
I don’t really go in for computer games, but I have fallen absolutely in love with Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine. I think it’s because top-down games resemble board games. On top of that, I find...
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More Games or More Often?
I’ve been thinking about gaming a lot lately. Since I finished up university for the summer, most of the thoughts that went into my schoolwork have focused instead on gaming. This is a good thing....
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All Your Games, Toys, and Puzzles Are Belong To Flatpack
There’s a difference between games that are modded, hacked, remixed, and mashed-up and what I call a “real” Frankengame. A Frankengame is like the Winchester Mystery House: A sprawling mass of...
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Sticking It To The (Edge of the) Empire
By Michael P.: I don’t always do random things to dice, but when I do it’s exceptionally random. When I first tore up my Edge of the Empire beta, I completely ignored the dice stickers. After that...
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Why are Commonplace Weapons Not So Commonplace in Fantasy RPGs?
By Cirsova: (First, I’d like to apologize for never finishing my Liches vs. Vampires series. I had a lot of work to do that kept me from devoting the time I needed to on it, and by the time I did, I...
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Random Encounters (And Why They’re Not So Bad)
By Mark: Too often, a “Random Encounter” is seen as a combat encounter, one where a wandering monster stumbles upon your party and proceeds to eat your NPC companions before you even make it to the...
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“A 10′ x 10′ Room Where Their Sex and Alignment are Reversed by a Terrible...
By Cirsova: I know I may be double dipping here, but I’d like to hear some thoughts on the topic of character gender in game. Now, Dungeon Bastard once said something to the effect that in a game where...
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Dungeon and the DRGN Operating System
By Michael: Dungeon is still too boring, and I still feel the need to add stuff to it. I have a set of rune stones. Don’t ask how I got them. Anyway, after determining that they’re not magic rocks...
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Campaign Concepts: Frozen
BY MARK I took my kids to go see Frozen over the weekend. It was actually a really good movie, which managed to avoid the “damsel in distress” plot, and completely threw the idea of “true love” on its...
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