Last time, I showed you Tension Clocks, a time-tracking tool for tabletop roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons. Basically. This time, I’m going to show you how to actually use them with a solid example and nicely specific rules and procedures.
Here it is… the core of the timekeeping mechanic that will change everything and the next evolution of the old Tension Pool: The Tension Clock.
I recently dropped a comment about how modern tabletop roleplaying game systems don’t differentiate between door-opening approaches substantially enough and I implied that I, sexy gaming genius that I am, could do better. Naturally, someone e-mail me to call my bluff. But I wasn’t bluffing.
Finally! The Third Heat is revealed. Surprising no one, the Third Heat is “actual gameplay.” Because this whole thing was never about the heat. Rather, it’s about where the heat fits in your adventure design in a game where naked die rolls and open-ended creativity are both always possibilities.
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Every so often, the Angry GM stumbles on something — a book, a game, a system, a blog, whatever — that is so utterly and amazingly not s$&% that he’s forced to admit he doesn’t actually hate it. Even though he didn’t create it himself, he doesn’t hate that thing. And that’s worth talking about.
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