{"id":319,"date":"2013-10-25T15:13:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T20:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wylfing.net\/coronas\/?p=319"},"modified":"2013-10-25T16:24:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T21:24:24","slug":"broken-lance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.wylfing.net\/coronas\/2013\/10\/broken-lance\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken Lance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over on <a title=\"Google Plus\" href=\"http:\/\/plus.google.com\" target=\"_blank\">the Plus<\/a>, an gaming friend <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/105771712753508502148\/posts\/fPaBs59zN3s\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a> some cool-looking, vaguely post-apocalyptical military art. It immediately made me think &#8220;Twilight:2000 with mechs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"display: inline;   vertical-align: top;   float: none;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/wylfing.net\/pics\/merc_patrol_by_alex_ichim.jpg\" width=\"484\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Artist credit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/alex-ichim.deviantart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/alex-ichim.deviantart.com\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>It also made me think: Hey, I could do a short-form RPG for that. I already have the rudiments of a resource-hungry system that I started developing for a spy-themed RPG called Double O. (Which, by the way, I might go back to now that I have a better idea of how to work with it.) It&#8217;s a D10 system that&#8217;s technically roll and keep, although dice are &#8220;expensive&#8221; so it doesn&#8217;t force you to roll more than you want to.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, you&#8217;ll never want to! This game&#8217;s mechanics are to be avoided at all costs.<\/p>\n<p>And so I present <a title=\"PDF of the Broken Lance RPG\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0BzSF1IzGrO3KSkhiQXZRNDVNanc\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\">Broken Lance<\/a>, a 9-page mini-RPG.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on the Plus, an gaming friend posted some cool-looking, vaguely post-apocalyptical military art. It immediately made me think &#8220;Twilight:2000 with mechs.&#8221; (Artist credit:\u00a0http:\/\/alex-ichim.deviantart.com\/) It also made me think: Hey, I could do a short-form RPG for that. I already have the rudiments of a resource-hungry system that I started developing for a spy-themed RPG [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[58,36,59],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-post-apocalypse","tag-rpg","tag-short-form"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wylfing.net\/coronas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wylfing.net\/coronas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wylfing.net\/coronas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wylfing.net\/coronas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wylfing.net\/coronas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wylfing.net\/coronas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wylfing.net\/coronas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wylfing.net\/coronas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wylfing.net\/coronas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.wylfing.net\/coronas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}