RPG Haven

I've sat on Savage Worlds for a good six months, because I was initially put off by the many combat modifiers the system has. However, taking a fresh look at the system, I'm finding that I'm enjoying it, for the most part!

The character creation is fast and easy. I really like how you have ...

It's really a different path! The character creation might take a little adjusting to, because typically in D&D, you go in with a character concept. In Traveller, you must embrace the Randomness. It's a challenge at first, but, the characters you create can be really in-depth!

Note, that although ...

Teenagers From Outer Space has a very similar mechanic. No death.

In fact, the game I'm building has this as a feature too. My goal is to put together a silly game with tons of options set within a vast environment.

The problem is that when people hear "role playing games" they immediately think ...

Toon is a game published by Steve Jackson Games, and is very much modeled after Looney Toons. It's a humorous game, where death doesn't exist. This is an older game, published in the 80s or 90s, however. I wanted to mention it, because there's a revised edition coming out next year? New rules will ...

I feel that the saturation of D&D in the role playing community is so severe, it's like walking around seeing everything in grayscale. Since I bounced off the High Fantasy genre in general fairly quickly, it's allowed me to look around to see all the wonderful flavors of role playing systems ...

This is a classic! Created in the 1970s, along the same time frame of Dungeons & Dragons, Traveller is recognized as the first Science Fiction role playing game, and over the fifty years of it's existence, it's gotten quite a number of revisions to it. There's like five versions of Classic Traveller ...

Nah I think making RPGs (especially video game RPGs) is difficult. Not only do you need to come up with a good story, cool characters and a plot, you also need to program how your characters are going to level up, and how their stats are going to change each time they level up. Not only that but ...

Cypher System sounds like one of those gems you discover by chance and end up loving. I like that it’s not too rigid. You can twist it into any kind of story you want. That flexibility makes it fun, especially when you want something fresh.


After exploring the publisher, Monte Cook Games, it ...

I have a two hour commute via subway and bus just to get to work, and another two hour commute to get back home. Lot's of time to read and watch Actual Plays on YouTube. Someday I hope to get some friends together to actually play some of these games with somebody other than myself.

What's really cool about this game is that you can make a World Spark. You can rename, add or even subtract the Core Traits from the game! So, like I could just rename Body to Strength, Mind to Focus, and Soul to Charisma, and add a fourth Trait named... Wealth (say the game has a spending mechanic ...