I’ve been working on some organization lately by putting together a library of all my tabletop games. Part of that process involves trying to come up with a “pitch” for each game — a brief summary on what the game is about and what makes it different from any other given game. Sometimes this summary … design ramble: expectation & structure
After last week’s double-post with the blogclave, I definitely cut it close finishing my post for this week. It’s still technically my Saturday night as far as I’m concerned, timezone be damned. This week we’re continuing the deep dive into Fighters in The Serket Hack, picking right back up with how attacks work in the … the serket hack: fighter identity
I keep avoiding the elephant in the room: I really haven’t said anything about The Serket Hack’s combat system. I know the vague shape of it, but my ambition to have unique character classes means that I don’t have a lot in the way of details. As previously mentioned, there are sixteen paths that players … the serket hack: totally effective fighters
Now that we’ve covered research for games both digital and physical, we can take that knowledge and apply it to a crafting mechanic for The Serket Hack. Unlike the last two posts which were mostly observational, I anticipate this one will be much more biased to my own personal preferences. Crafting Lets You Get Stuff … crafting in games: the serket hack
Last week we looked at crafting systems across a variety of video games, broadly splitting them into categories based on input and output and process. This week I want to look at how tabletop roleplaying games handle crafting, but I am much less certain we will find as much similarity. In base Dungeons & Dragons … crafting in games: 2
One of the notes I’ve written for The Serket Hack is “a crafting mechanic that isn’t disappointing”. I love crafting in games; resource management is my passion. Unfortunately, I think most tabletop games which include a crafting feature implement it poorly. Before I draft designs on what exactly I want to put into TSH, I … crafting in games: 1
I grew up in Suzhou, China, which had a population of about 6 million people when I was living there and has only grown since then. I considered it to be a small city in comparison to Shanghai, which was roughly an hour away and had a population of 25 million and better public transportation. … urban depthcrawl
How does it work? What makes it tick? What are the mechanisms driving gameplay forward? Are we on a railroad or in a sandbox? These are the questions that plague me when I look at the vast unchiseled form of this game. I understand on a broad level how I want the game to feel, … The Serket Hack: Big Picture Loops
Content Warning This is an intersection of kink and tabletop roleplaying games. Pull out now if that’s not your speed. Monster Hunter Wilds released last Thursday, so we’re going to talk about handlers this week. I’m getting ahead of myself though. This is a post about the Knight and Squire classes in The Serket Hack. … The Serket Hack: Handlers & Hounds
On January 1st, Idle Cartulary over at Playful Void threw down the gauntlet by challenging everyone to make a dungeon zine. Everyone should make a dungeon, at least once. Everyone should get in touch with the hands-on craft of something physical like a zine. Everyone should get a little messy with it. I took this … dungeons (where do i start?)
