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Homebrew Rule: No Dice Failures

January 8, 2025 mstanton Homebrews, Rules

Instead of success or failure, attempt always work but player must choose at what cost.

Chaosium’s Basic Roleplaying Rules

January 6, 2025 mstanton Homebrews, Rules

Notes on mashing up BRP with some patchwork houserules.

Another Homebrew RPG Idea

January 2, 2025 mstanton Homebrews, Rules

Another homebrew idea, Frankenstein of ideas from D&D5e and BRP (Chaosium’s Basic Role Playing/Call of Cthulhu system), with a few bits borrowed from Marvel Multiverse RPG and GURPS.

Trait System RPG Idea

October 6, 2023 mstanton Homebrews, Rules

Updating my 30-year-old RPG design project notes, started way back in the early 1990s. Uses d20s only, no ability scores, and players roll for all task outcomes.

Another RPG Ruleset In Progress

September 27, 2023 mstanton Homebrews, Rules

Brainstorming a sort of D&D-Cypher hybrid rules idea…

LARP Character Magical Powers

September 25, 2023 mstanton Homebrews, Rules

I found the following character abilities in some mid-1990s LARP rules I made for con events in Wisconsin.

Otherwhere: Peoples And Places (2021)

September 9, 2021 mstanton Homebrews, Settings

A “mythological theme park” of ancient cultures and classic fantasy tropes: the fall of Atlantis, pantheons of mischievous gods, nations of human and non-human peoples, the struggle between order and chaos, and lands conjured out of dreams.