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Hacking the Planes with Cortex+ Distinctions

So last time I talked about belief and the planes. I wanted to lay some groundwork before diving into these posts. Let me be clear that I am not entirely sure what will come of this. This might peter...

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The Planes, Fate, and Cortex+, Or, The One Where I Apologize and We Move On

It finally happened. I screwed up. I mistakenly talked about Aspects in Cortex+. The problem with that is Aspects are a thing in FATE, not Cortex+. Color me embarassed. The concept stands though. I got...

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Intelligence as an Attribute

I had a thought the other day. It might be because I’m now getting to play in @MilwaukeeJoe‘s Revenge of the Iron Lich play-by-blog game (you can catch up on the antics at his Grind4E blog) or that the...

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The Lady of Pain, Mythender

If you’ve been following me at all here or on Twitter, you should be aware of two things. One is that I love Planescape, and two is that I love Mythender. Today I’m going to talk about the two of them...

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Night’s Black Masquerade

Continuing with my Dragon*Con 2012 posts, today’s topic is an interesting one. I got to play in a Vampire: the Masquerade (V:tM) game one of the days. Background Now I’ve heard all kinds of things...

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Mapping Vampire the Masquerade to Night’s Black Agents

As part of my new process, I decided to do things properly and revisit my Night’s Black Masquerade idea. Today, I want to talk about a system mapping, which is what I started to do in the that previous...

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Skillfull Thinking and Feeling Evocation

Night’s Black Masquerade chugs along in my head. I had gotten to the point where I was starting to map the guts of one system into another. Oddly enough, it was going along pretty well. Skills I had...

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Clans in Night’s Black Masquerade

I started working on fleshing out the Clans for Night’s Black Masquerade tonight, and a strange thing occurred. I had a well-laid out path, and things appeared to be going pretty well. Enter John...

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Don’t Waste Your Afterlife

A long, long time ago, I pitched an idea to Evil Hat’s Don’t Hack This Game. It was my first professional game design work, but the project languished for a long time before ultimately being cancelled....

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