DungeonPunk

Basically DungeonPunk applies the gritty, cynical aesthetic of CyberPunk to heroic fantasy, usually with magic as tech. Sometimes this is just a surface gloss: long coats & mirror shades on your dual-pistol wielding dwarf warrior. What I’m looking to do is emphasize some of the things that I see as making the “Punk” part: The […]

Numenera Quick Hits

Some quick impressions of Numenera from Monday’s game: I like the mad-lib character generation. I might even steal it. The names Glaive, Jack, and Nano for the character types aren’t particularly evocative for me. Nanotech is the new phlebotinum and it already feels worn out. Cyphers is a bad name for the one-use devices. The […]

Low-Magic Fantasy Settings Seem Strange

The idea of a low-magic fantasy setting seems a bit odd to me, in that the idea that the world we live in is low-magic strikes me as a very modern one. As far as I can tell at most times and places in our world, which has no magic at all, people nonetheless believed […]

Fate Accelerated Non-Review

Not a review, just an impression I was flipping through Fate Accelerated at the game store yesterday, and it seemed like the mirror-universe version of my own SFX! There are strong similarities (maybe because I played and hacked so much FUDGE back in the day), but almost every concrete difference I noticed was the exact […]