EDIT: Freddie Foulds over on Bluesky found the post for me! It was a Chris McDowall post: Alien Dojos. This is now a fan post about the genius that is Alien Dojos. Every martial art described there (for use with Into The Odd) has a resolution mechanic that involves doing something tactile with dice, beyond just rolling. For “Bafistan Fist Fighting” each punch is a d6, “rolled” by “throwing them into the air and punching them”—but you have to punch them in such a way they still l...| Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours
This post is a brain-fart—me trying to jot a thought, lurking and seeing TTRPG folks react to GNS Theory for the upteenth time. + Context: GNS Theory seeks to frame, understand, categorise, and model tabletop roleplay—and, via this framework, suggest solutions and improvements to the craft of TTRPG design as a whole. Understanding GNS Theory, it is asserted, will allow you to create better-designed (“more coherent”) games. Edwards compares the utility of understanding GNS to that of u...| Zedeck Siew's Writing Hours