Tag: heartbreaker


  • Star Wars, the LS Swap of Gaming

    On a long enough timeline, everything gets used to run Star Wars. This time it’s Cortex Prime’s turn!

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  • The Tightrope Transaction

    The Tightrope Transaction

    What would the latest trindie rpg hotness look like mashed together and used to run car chases? Maybe this!

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  • FFG Fancy Dice Hacks

    My local group’s played multiple one-shots of Fantasy Flight Games’ Star Wars games. You know, the ones with the fancy dice. I liked some things about the system, but I definitely felt character creation was needlessly crunchy compared to the basic mechanic of “roll dice and interpret them like entrails”. I had all these dice,

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  • It’s Free RPG Day

    It is here, in any case. I’m throwing up an old homebrew roleplaying game my brother and I made after college. I was going to make some self-deprecating shame jokes at this point, but I don’t think it’s a bad game for the time. It’s mainly spliced together from pre-deluxe Savage Worlds and Fate 2.0

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  • More Tightrope of Peril

    Which system(s) are going to end up in my game meatloaf for this pulp action heartbreaker I’m thinking about? I’ve been reading up on a lot of the newer-hotness games as well as some older favorites. If I can just drift an existing game rather than Frankensteining something new out of parts, that’d be great.

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  • The Tightrope of Peril

    The Tightrope of Peril

    I’ve been working on a roleplaying game design alongside Insomniacs that’s either going to be a Star Wars heartbreaker or some sort of pulp action game. It might end up diverging into both. What Even Is Pulp Action? Action-adventure as a genre is far too broad, but the influences I’m talking about are cornerstones of

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