One of the unconventional elements of the Forge Engine RPG is the structure of the turns.   Traditional RPGs have a round/turn structure wh...

The first thing I look at whenever I check out a new RPG is the character sheet, because you can tell so much about a game just from this on...

Tonight was our first playtest of a new game system I'm working on called the Forge Engine , which is an Abilities and Skills based d10 ...

Looks like the release of the print version of Heroes Against Darkness has shaken out some new fans. +John Bell - The Retired Adventurer ...

So while all of the helpful playtesters are putting Hero Kids through it's paces, I reckon it's a good time to show everyone else w...

Now that I've had time to think about some of the things that those crafty designers are WOTC are doing for D&D Next , I think that ...

For the last five weeks (or so) we've been playing the D&D Next playtest (as have much of the rest of the D&D fraternity).   I...

Following my previous exciting and enigmatic post about d6 dice pool probabilities, I've also run the same combinations of dice pools t...

I've been mulling over a set of super-simple RPG rules for kids (maybe from 4 and up).   As part of this I've been thinking about a ...

Of all of the decisions I've made during the development of Heroes Against Darkness , the page limitation on spells per class is - at fi...

One of the deliberate features of the magic system in Heroes Against Darkness is the strict limits on the amount of anima that is av...

Yet another of my self-imposed 'rules' for Heroes Against Darkness is to avoid the sorts of absolute effects of earlier (and future...

There's already been a lot of discussion about the advantage/disadvantage mechanics in D&D Next , but here are a few more quick thou...

The other day I posted my early thoughts and opinions of the playtest rules for D&D Next and tonight we finally got a chance to play ...

I've been looking forward to the D&D Next open playtest for quite a while.  I previously blogged about some of the expectations tha...

In this entry in the Remaking Magic series, we take a look at the steps taken to ensure that no spell gets left behind. The side-effect of...

Heroes Against Darkness employs a number of techniques to keep magi relatively balanced against the martial classes. First, the combinatio...

Let's get this out of the way: I strongly dislike Vancian magic. When I started work on Heroes Against Darkness we'd just finishe...