The 13th Hack – Part 1
In my left hand, the 13th Age SRD. Or rulebook if you’ve got it. Big, weighty, gorgeous, full-colour, tome of everything you need to run an RPG in the Dragon Empire and beyond. It’s my go-to game for fantasy gaming. Or it was… In my right hand, The Black Hack. 19 pages long, including the…
Instant Backstory – Just Add Imagination
Good morning! I am the newest member of the Game Master’s Roundtable of Doom (aka the Roundtable formerly known as the Cypher System Bloggers), it’s our duty to take a look at role-playing game system mechanics an an inter-system, cross-dimensional kind of way (well, that’s what it says on the name badge). Specifically the main man himself, +Lex Starwalker, posed…
13th Age of Fate Accelerated – Part 1
Before we begin, for those who don’t know, a role-playing game (or RPG) is a way to tell stories as a group – one person sets the scene, the rest have characters described in terms of their attributes, skills, abilities and powers. One might play a fighter, wielding a magic sword to take down hordes…