The Gaming Den

This is the best thing to an autopsy on Gramarie that I’ve seen. I would say that Grek hit it pretty much right on the head. The project was vulnerable to a bunch of different failure modes, which included but were not limited to: - Forcing the system to do things that it really wasn’t designed to d...

Oh, I like this idea a lot. It captures the right mix of open-endedness but also combat-usefulness which is missing at low levels right now. I'll need to think about some of them, but the basic idea is great. I'm working on eldritch blast boons from principles you know right now, but I think impleme...

I really make no bones about it, the system isn't primarily designed for stabbing people in the face and taking their stuff. It's for games that center around creative uses of abilities and open-ended interaction with the world. There's really no excuse to have classes that don't do both things. We...

Two more base classes are still on the table, the saboteur for more dungeon-crawlingy adventures and the sapper for mass combat and war adventures. I really make no bones about it, the system isn't primarily designed for stabbing people in the face and taking their stuff. It's for games that center ...

Hey, this is really exciting to see linked to here! I love these forums, and a bunch of the inspirations for the system came from some of the fascinating threads on this board about magical engineering and practical applications of spells; I'd love to hear what you all have to say about it! There ar...