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  • Pineapple Dragon

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  • The Big Rubout

    Just a few short comments from last night’s Gangbusters Braunstein. We had only one combat last night. O’Bannion sent his best hit-man after Johnny Caspar. I decided the hit-man would go after Johnny at home. After taking out the guards… Continue reading

  • Gangbusters Braunstein

    What’s the rumpus? Gangbusters is the rumpus. I’ve admired the RPG Gangbusters ever since I was a teenager in 1983. Who doesn’t like cops and robbers. Gangbusters has it all — gangsters, FBI, Prohibition Agents, local police, reporters, hard-boiled detectives.… Continue reading

  • The Heat Engine Model for Role-playing Games

    Jeffro’s been talking about convergence for a long time. Bdubs too. They contrast diffusion with convergence. As I understand the thesis, his point is the great moments of gaming occur during periods of conversion. Multiple threads of events intersect and… Continue reading

  • Is Traveller Ready Made for Braunsteins?

    Well, is it? Jeffro and BDubs thinks so. And, that’s good enough for me. Go read their columns on the subject first, then come back. So, Jeffro made the world, Moonshine (C 8793016). It’s a near water world with limited… Continue reading

  • Call of Cthulhu RPG — Alternative Task Resolution

    One complaint about the Call of Cthulhu task resolution system is that a mystery may hinge on uncovering critical information, which depends on using a skill to find. Failure of the skill roll then impedes further progress. While I don’t… Continue reading

  • The First RPG and the Second D&D

    Jeffro Johnson has a new post (Tunnels & Trolls is the First Rpg) where he presents a thesis that Tunnels and Trolls is the true first RPG. Go read his post and then come back. Without going on at length, Johnson’s… Continue reading

  • Classic Traveller — Starship Fuel

    Disclaimer: this analysis uses solely the 1977 Traveller rules. One of the tropes of Classic Traveller, and SF of that time, is the idea of refueling a starship by skimming hydrogen from the atmosphere of a gas giant. See a… Continue reading

  • Sexual Dimorphism and Bears in AD&D

    Recently, in Internet Time, some sort of poll was posted somewhere saying when asked that women would, if lost in the forest, would rather meet a bear than a man. As usual with the internet this was probably a fake,… Continue reading

  • Monster Height and Weight in AD&D

    In AD&D 1e height and weight are important characteristics due to the fact that grappling and overbearing use height and weight as part of determining how effective such an attack might be. After all, the sport of wrestling has weight… Continue reading