Adapting the game to a setting requires a little work by the Game Moderator— configuring a set of skill-focused tables to generate characters; defining any unique mechanics, like angelic favours, expendable gadgets, or uncanny good luck; and customising unpredictable but determined foes to stand between success and failure.
Sanction RPG engine: A first look at the settings and goals
Sanction is a simple system for challenge-driven games, with player characters who are usually anything but heroes.
UKGE 2022 Awards: The best RPGs and board games of the year
The UK’s largest and one of the most significant gaming conventions in Europe is over, and the UK Games Expo is done for another year. The busy event has many attractions, one of which is the influential UK Games Expo Awards. The UKGE 2022 Awards has two categories, Judges and People, which means two winners […]
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #147
We can see many exciting bundles, Hasbro hanging on to Wizards of the Coast, and if you’re a fan of the news reading minotaur, there’s a chance to win him in the UK.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #130
Drama again this week with attack lawyers dispatched against Wizards of the Coast, hassles over Kickstarters at Dragonmeet and confusion and concern over the direction Kickstarter itself might be taking.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #129
RPG news summarised from the week that’s just gone with reviews, interviews, bundle deals, competitions and crowdfunding projects.
Slightly supernatural: A review of The Dee Sanction
John Dee and Francis Walsingham, men with very different approaches and outlooks, run a secret agency for the Queen to protect the country from the rising supernatural threat.
October Horrors begin: The Cthulhu Hack bundle
Based on The Black Hat RPG, a system praised by many geeks in the know is Just Crunch Games’ Cthulhu Hack. That’s also an RPG praised by tastemakers and with award-winning supplements like Valkyrie Nine.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #118
A newly announced D&D event, new directors at GAMA, controversy and a whole tonne of new RPGs.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #116
As it’s Friday, it means RPG news in summary form. Routinely Itemised doesn’t just summarise Geek Native’s own content.
