Pointcrawling Across the Ninth World
In his latest post MrVekyl goes on point on pointcrawls and how to use them in Numenera.
RUNNING-THE-GAME
Finest collection of 6 posts for your perusal
Start Your Game With a Group Sentence
When you don’t want to pitch a setting to your group, or you want to nail the group’s motivation from session zero, here is a neat trick.
Far From Home Session Retrospective
In this retrospective, Mr. Vekyl is searching his inner self trying to unravel a mystery on why exactly he turned perfectly good session into a mediocre one.
Thoughts on Pacing and an Experiment
What are the necessary low-effort ingredients that, when aligned, create a well-paced RPG session?
Interesting Failures
Most of the time we resolve tasks in a binary fashion - the result is either success or failure. Cypher gives an option to graduate the success on failed rolls, aka the “failing forward” technique.
Cypher System is OSR
OSR and Cypher walk into a bar and the bartender asks them: “What do you do now?”