All wands and staves have a number of charges, which is rolled when a character takes possession of the item. Typically, a wand has 1-8 charges and a staff has 1-12 charges. Discharged wands...
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Wands, Redux
Spells for The One Ring
I know what you're thinking! "Geez, man, this has already been tried by like a dozen people and it always kind of sucks." Yeah. Well, here we go again.
First off, let's clear up this bit of...
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Broken Lance
Over on the Plus, an gaming friend posted some cool-looking, vaguely post-apocalyptical military art. It immediately made me think "Twilight:2000 with mechs."
(Artist...
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Character Pages from The 53
I recently got wildly inspired to work on a spy game, principally because I listened to Adele's "Skyfall." This game, tentatively called The 53, is an RPG that tries to recreate the feel of the James...
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The One Ring Quick Start Rules
Seeing how Cubicle 7 has so far declined to release their own Quick Start Rules, and seeing how I feel the need to have them, I wrote it up. As a matter of fact, I think I quite like what I made...
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Building Beliefs from MG Recruitment (Pt 2)
Here is the second part of what I began with the origin-skill-trait chart. The idea here is to go through the "lifepath" to borrow Burning Wheel term of your guardmouse, building up a history as you...
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Mouse Guard: Setting and Conflict
I studied literature in school, in both French and English. It may not be apparent to an English speaker who didn't study French literature, but to do any reasonable criticism you need to change...
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