Tag: RPG Design

Genre Police: Generic Police
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Genre Police: Generic Police

So you read my last article about system hacking, and it seems like a lot of work. You want to have that work done for you. You’d like to run a game about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the existing game isn’t working for you, but you don’t want to work on hacking Mutant Year Zero or Feng Shui 2 to make it work, so you don’t know where to go.

D&D BECMI Alternate Saving Throws
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D&D BECMI Alternate Saving Throws

After posting a number of articles about character classes, some hindsight might be useful. One reason I wrote revisions and additions was to boost player characters’ lowest levels—hence extra spells at the first few levels, modified class abilities, etc. The other reason was to stretch demi-humans experience progression to the full 36 level range. One pothole remains (I’m sure there are others), but this one needs particular attention: saving throws.