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David Ellis Dickerson
Dec 31, 20191 min read
FATE IN TEN PAGES
This is a ink to a 10-page handout I gave to my players before a game of Masters of Umdaar. I missed one salient fact (that whoever...
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David Ellis Dickerson
Dec 29, 20191 min read
HOW TO BALANCE ENCOUNTERS IN FAE (ROUGHLY)
RULE OF THUMB I JUST DISCOVERED: If a typical encounter is one that has a 50% chance of producing a mild or moderate consequence, it...
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David Ellis Dickerson
Dec 29, 20195 min read
"OH SHIT!"/"WHAT NOW?": WHAT MAKES A GOOD FATE COMPEL
This question came up on the Facebook Fate group ("What makes a good compel?") and I wrote a really long reply that I thought might make...
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David Ellis Dickerson
Dec 29, 20199 min read
IMPROVING ZIRD: PREFATORY NOTES TO EXPLORING FATE
One of my intentions with this blog is to poke at Fate--easily my favorite tabletop RPG system--in hopes of making certain elements of...
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David Ellis Dickerson
Dec 29, 20196 min read
NON-GONZO ARCANA FOR INTO THE ODD (or, D20 OSR MAGIC ITEMS)
I love, love, love Into the Odd! But I also really love the slightly more grounded setting of The Nightmares Underneath, and so when I...
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