Notes from Ben M, a New Zealand TTRPG creator.
Saturday, 4 February 2023
Melee combat abstractions: Time
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Games necessarily use abstractions. Abstractions are neither good nor bad, although there can be good or bad implementations, and when choos...
Wednesday, 25 January 2023
Kickstarter ending soon, and design thoughts
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There are just 24 hours left on my first Kickstarter: A Fistful Of Curiosities . Something I discovered in working on this project is that c...
Saturday, 14 January 2023
Fantasy setting peeves: Coda
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All too often in audiovisual media covering a historical or historical-fantasy setting, peasants are depicted as wearing ill-fitting, ragged...
Wednesday, 11 January 2023
A Fistful of Curiosities: Kickstarter
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Our new project, A Fistful of Curiosities , is now live on Kickstarter! It's a collection of ten small, self-contained location-based fa...
Monday, 9 January 2023
Four kinds of fantasy setting peeves
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Personally, our peeves when it comes to the tropes in fantasy books, TTRPGs, and shows can be reduced to four categories. Our favourite work...
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