Gaming, tools, and thoughts from Game in the Brain.
I got a problem trying to imagine a shortsword. Warswords, as we know them, evolved from shortswords. This is an evidence of metallurgy than fighting style, since you can’t develop…
Read more →I’ve missed Civilization for a while. It sucks too much time. Seeing the new Civilization 5, I found my new map maker. Since there are Authoring tools, I can just…
Read more →I’d like to talk about game theory and how it relates to RPGs. The coordination game is very simple. You see it in any interaction where being on the same…
Read more →This TED video sums up also my ideals and how I design games.
Read more →I got confused when I learned Alexander was using Iron weapons. I thought the glory days of Hellenism was the Bronze age. I was very wrong. If I were to…
Read more →In psychology of video games, Jaime related how framing works out in WoW and in business. I discussed Framing in the review of the Art of Critical Decision Making. Anyway,…
Read more →Experimenting with Random Lord Generator. I used this dice roller to generate a list of d6 rolls. Following the step by step aspects in the table, I will just use…
Read more →One of the better threads, particularly since it is very constructive to me. Taking to account, biology and how it affects culture and the role of women in warfare. I…
Read more →The Random Lord Generator is meant to allow for the quick, simple, and detached creation of NPC lords as allies, patrons, or adversaries. They are also designed in mind of…
Read more →Made a bunch of GURPS 4e Mass Combat Low Tech templates. They feature the basic Ally cost and some lenses. Right now I’m constructing a way to randomly roll up…
Read more →The Pacifism: Cannot Harm innocents Disadvantage is common through out all cultures. Innocents and Humanity is diffused by the lense of culture and moral perspective. A person, may love his…
Read more →The reason i can emphasize so well with bad management was because there was a time I was a really bad GM and I lost all my players. Its hard…
Read more →The humble Serf, as well as Husbands and Wives, to entrepreneurial Peasant and Yeomen, to loyal Retainers and Vassals, the Knights, Lords, Dukes and Princes… all these people have one…
Read more →I’ve joined Arm Chair Generals forums to work through some of my campaign problems. One of them, I’m stuck on is military readiness. Using GURPS mass combat, plotting the precise…
Read more →I broke my own home brew rules. I’ve gone back to the basics and tried again. This time a little bit more detailed. As I’ve always got game in the…
Read more →Checking the wiki about each country and using google maps I found out that Israel and Palestine: 22,000 sq km and 350 people per sq km Lebanon: 10,000 sq km…
Read more →Manpower is produced by a warlord’s fief or province. They don’t have a cost to raise because these are duties peasants and nobles owe the master of that realm. This…
Read more →GURPS Mass Combat is a tool so that you can run a fun and exciting War Campaign. I’ve trying to run a war campaign for the longest time. I’ve made…
Read more →Strategos (Military Rank 8; Status 4) The General of the Army. Strategos mentioned are Belisarius, and Narses. Hypo Strategos (Military Rank 7; Status 3) Second in Command to the strategos,…
Read more →The winds have died for my Crusader Era write ups. I’ll wait till the winds blow back at them again. Meanwhile. The translation problems are plenty in the strategikon and…
Read more →Continuing The use of the Art Critical Thinking in RPGs. 1. Making High-Stakes Decisions – This is the introduction to the lecture and poses to the listener how people decision…
Read more →How interchangeable management skills are with GMing surprises and doesn’t surprise me. If you boil management and GMing down to its essential elements, they are both a methods of making…
Read more →Its only recently, from my understanding of economics am I able to make a better informed homebrew system for basic civic building. This Creation of Civic Entities, is useful for…
Read more →The Art of Critical Decision Making is another gem from The Teaching Company that is really useful in gaming. I know gaming is fun, and its supposed to stay fun,…
Read more →GURPS mass combat is a bit hard to take all in. at once There is a limitation of examples because of the word count limit. So what I did is:…
Read more →Feudalism is very tricky and difficult to reflect in RPG system. It is not as much “ranks” of status but more about oaths of duty. A powerful lord may have…
Read more →I began to learn more about them as part of RPG 2 years ago. I admit it was because of a nerd argument that got me to read up as…
Read more →The Teaching Company’s Medieval World lecture, conducted by Dorsey Armstrong is a great way to get into medieval history if your too busy. It has, like many TTC DVDs, a…
Read more →The Art of war is pretty useful for any war campaign. The anecdotes attached to the document give the GM many ideas of how to describe a situation. Sun Tzu’s…
Read more →This is another random roll table. This is for socio-economic background. This is supposed to be used in tandem with the previous random disadvantage table (Personality background table). Socio-Economic BackgroundNot…
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