Subsequent Topics 1/5/2007 Dan Maruschak: [Free Will] Exploring the concept of free will in a computer RPG
I’m trying to design a single-player computer RPG. I’ve never seriously played tabletop RPGs, but I do enjoy reading RPG rules, and have read a few Forge-style games, and think…
In First Thoughts
Participants: Dan Maruschak, Noon, Madheretic, Sane, Hans.
10/15/2009 Dan Maruschak: [Final Hour of a Storied Age] Seeking Playtesters
I am looking for playtesters for my game, Final Hour of a Storied Age: A Roleplaying Game of Epic Fantasy. It is a GM-less no-prep game designed to create epic…
In Connections
Participants: Dan Maruschak.
12/22/2009 Dan Maruschak: [Final Hour of a Storied Age] Supporting characters' subplots in Epic Fantasy
My game is Final Hour of a Storied Age: A Roleplaying Game of Epic Fantasy. A PDF of the current rules can be downloaded from here. For context, you can…
In Playtesting
Participants: Dan Maruschak, pells, dindenver, Catelf.
4/21/2010 Dan Maruschak: [Final Hour of a Storied Age] Improving the flow of my mechanics
I've been working on Final Hour of a Storied Age, my GM-less "plot-first" game that produces stories in the Epic Fantasy genre (a la The Lord of the Rings, The…
In Playtesting
Participants: Dan Maruschak, Gregor Hutton, dindenver.
6/26/2010 Dan Maruschak: [Final Hour of a Storied Age] Players bringing expectations from other games
In my playtesting of Final Hour of a Storied Age (download current rules here, listen to podcasts of relevant playtests here and here, or read the text playtest reports here…
In Playtesting
Participants: Dan Maruschak, dindenver, Noon.
7/11/2010 Dan Maruschak: [Final Hour of a Storied Age] Seeking Skype Playtesters
I'm looking for alpha playtesters to play my game Final Hour of a Storied Age with me over Skype. Here's the pitch:
The end of an age draws nigh, an…
In Connections
Participants: Dan Maruschak.
9/11/2010 Dan Maruschak: Dan's Game Thread
I don't have a strong idea yet, but last year I found the process of articulating my thoughts in words helped me develop them further, so I'm going to post…
In Endeavor: Game Chef 2010
Participants: Dan Maruschak, Darla Shockley, Jason Pitre, masqueradeball.
11/1/2010 Dan Maruschak: [DITV] We keep stumbling when it comes to the supernatural stuff
I am GMing a DITV game over skype with two players. After an initially rocky start (the first town I created ended up being pretty lame), I think we've got…
In lumpley games
Participants: Dan Maruschak, lumpley, Noclue, JMendes, mreuther.
11/17/2010 Dan Maruschak: [Final Hour of a Storied Age] Heart of the Fire
For the past few weeks I've been playtesting Final Hour of a Storied Age, my GM-less no-prep game of Epic Fantasy with Leo Lalande and Nolan Callender. This AP report…
In Game Development
Participants: Dan Maruschak.
12/21/2010 Dan Maruschak: [Final Hour of a Storied Age] The trait/dice mechanics
In Final Hour of a Storied Age (get the latest revision from the download page, or here's a link straight to the rev 0.67 PDF) I'm using freeform traits to…
In Game Development
Participants: Dan Maruschak, Ron Edwards, masqueradeball, Noon, dindenver.
1/24/2011 Dan Maruschak: [Final Hour of a Storied Age] An Empty Throne Beckons
Leo, Nolan, and I got together on Skype for a two hour session on November 15, 2010 for a playtest of Final Hour of a Storied Age rev 0.67 (An…
In Game Development
Participants: Dan Maruschak, Ron Edwards, stefoid.
4/12/2011 Dan Maruschak: [Brick & Mortar: Last of the Independents]
[url=http://www.danmaruschak.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Brick-and-Mortar-rev001.pdf]Brick & Mortar: Last of the Independents[/url]
I haven't had great luck getting inspired by these “groups of words” design contests, especially in terms of coming up with games of…
In Endeavor: Ronnies 2011
Participants: Dan Maruschak, baxil, Ron Edwards, stefoid, happysmellyfish.
5/4/2011 Dan Maruschak: [Brick & Mortar] First playtests
Yesterday, Nolan, Leo, and I ran some playtests of Brick & Mortar: Last of the Independents, the game I created for the April round of The Ronnies. I just released…
In Game Development
Participants: Dan Maruschak, Thunder_God.
9/16/2011 Dan Maruschak: [Final Hour of a Storied Age] Adding a "relief valve" to my dice mechanic
A few months ago, one of the listeners of my podcast (Designer vs. Reality, my AP podcast about playtesting roleplaying games by independent game designers) was kind enough to run…
In Game Development
Participants: Dan Maruschak, Noon, Ron Edwards, mark2v.
4/9/2012 Dan Maruschak: Untitled DrWho Project
My four threads are:
Answers to Power 19
Character Creation placement
Chrono Master?
"Blowing Stuff Up" - Basic Draft
I was already leaning towards something Doctor Who-related once…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: Dan Maruschak, mrteapot, jjspackle, PeterBB, Troy_Costisick.
4/27/2012 Dan Maruschak: [Coyotes in Dark Alleyways] An unofficial review
[url=http://semielgames.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/coyotes-in-dark-alleyways.pdf]Coyotes in Dark Alleyways[/url] by Peter Borah (PeterBB) wasn't one of my assigned reviews, but I wanted to post a review of it anyway.
Metaphorical coyotes have featured very prominently…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: Dan Maruschak, PeterBB.
4/27/2012 Dan Maruschak: [Young Turks at the Cafe] An unofficial review
I wasn't officially assigned to review Young Turks at the Cafe by Zachary Donovan but I wanted to post one anyway.
This is an interesting premise for a game, since…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: Dan Maruschak, AsthmaticHamster.
4/28/2012 Dan Maruschak: [The Coyote Lode] An unofficial review
I wasn't officially assigned to review The Coyote Lode by Troy M. Costisick but I wanted to post one anyway.
This is a very complete and playable game. It obviously…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: Dan Maruschak.
4/29/2012 Dan Maruschak: [Liminal] An unofficial review
I wasn't officially assigned to review Liminal by Robert Bruce but I wanted to post one anyway.
Liminal has some really interesting ideas in it. I really like the idea…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: Dan Maruschak, Robert Bruce.
5/3/2012 Dan Maruschak: [Whispers in the Dark] An unofficial review
I wasn't officially assigned to review Whispers in the Dark by Jacob Possin, but he asked for additional feedback so I decided to post some.
Whispers in the Dark starts…
In Last Chance Game Chef
Participants: Dan Maruschak, gtroc.
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