Podcasts about one roll engine

Monsters and Other Childish Things > The Dreadful Secrets of Candlewick ManorThe Dreadful Secrets of Candlewick Manor was a published campaign written by Benjamin Baugh using the One Roll Engine. In our wrap up, we look at expectations vs. realities of a truly sandbox game, discuss the dice system, and give insights into our own childhoods and inspirations.

This month the gang gets together (sans Katie) to talk abouth One Roll Engine games. We get dwon into the gritty details of how to create your dicepool and interpretContinue readingEpisode 38 – It Only Takes One Roll

We had planned to talk about One Roll Engine games. However, with Henry sick and Paul unable to attend the recording, we decided to talk about board games. Some ofContinue readingEpisode 37 – Board Games and Card Games are AWESOME!

Caleb recorded a panel discussion  at Gencon 2013 about Arc Dream’s One Roll Engine games, from Godlike to Better Angels, led by Shane Ivey. Find out what’s going with the system and how it came to be. Support Role Playing Public Radio on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/RPPR/ The post One Roll to Rule Them All: Arc Dream Publishing and the One Roll Engine at Gencon 2013 appeared first on Role Playing Public Radio.

Better Angels is a an upcoming One Roll Engine role playing game from Greg Stolze and Arc Dream. It's currently in playtesting and we were fortunate enough to get our hands on the draft. Caleb ran the playtest scenario so we could get familiar with the game before we dive into a campaign. In this scenario, we all play supervillains in an existing group of bad guys, out to rule the American Midwest with an iron fist....in theory. However, after a horrifically violent outing at an Occupy rally and a fight with a 'superhero', we get a job offer from another supervillain. The job isn't what it seems though so will our protagonists find out the truth behind the scheme and what will they do about it?

The Misanthropes are proud(?) to present a series of actual-play recordings! Come listen to us play a variety of tabletop games! This special episode uses the One Roll Engine's Dirty World setting! In post-war Berlin, 1946, a joint team of Russian and American investigators, each with their own motivations and goals, join forces to investigate a pair of similar mother-child murders. Can they put aside their own selfish ambitions to find justice? A Dirty World scenario penned by Caleb Stokes of Hebanon Games!

We’ve talked about Monsters and Other Childish Things time and time again on The Drunk and The Ugly because it is my favorite RPG and because we play it very often. In spite of all that, we have yet to post a session of it.  Until now. A few weeks ago, our friend Nate (the guy who’s hosting this server) finally got his first set of dice ever, despite how he’s been gaming for over 10 years. Understandably, he wanted a medium to use them in. The Road Trip crew was unavailable and none of us really had anything prepared, so Nate wrote up a one-shot setting in about an hour. This setting was Mrs. Frieda’s Home for Terrible Freakish Children, and ended up becoming sort of a side campaign that is more flexible player-wise, as it’s a fixed position with lots of children, so kids can jump in and out as they need to. In a nutshell, Mrs. Frieda’s Halfway Home for Children (its official name) is a halfway home for children taken from abusive homes. Why has it gotten the reputation that it has? Because most of the children here responded to the abuse in their homes with abuse of their own. Everyone has their own reasons for being here, and most of them are never going to leave this place with a new family. While everyone has secrets to hide, some kids have worse secrets than others: Some kids have “special friends” that would freak out everyone in the city, and others are slowly transforming into eagles. Not everyone has these kinds of problems, mind you, but a few kids within this establishment do. Mrs. Frieda’s is about the life and times of these children. Experienced players of One-Roll Engine games may notice that we’re not using the hard and fast ORE rules. This is mainly because the One-Roll Engine becomes very cumbersome in games with large numbers of players, and especially in Skype games. We’re using a homebrewed version that involves a single d10 and rolling under the combined number of a stat and skill. Height and Width are determined by margins of success (and in combat, a separate die is rolled for height). It’s different, but it works much better for our group. PLAYERS Manda – Manny (the Devil Child) Matt – Scott Valle (the Eagle Boy) Nate – Emma Vaerbond Sam – George Fillburn The post Mrs. Frieda’s Halfway Home Session 1 – Manny’s First Day appeared first on The Drunk and The Ugly.

Reign and the Relationship between Narration and Mechanics 0:37 - I'm here today to talk about an RPG I've played recently some thoughts on a unique feature of roleplaying games. 1:22 - This show is a part of the Gaming Broadcast Network. 1:28 - Reign, by Greg Stolze, is a One Roll Engine game set in an extraordinarily fantastical world. I had the opportunity to play a short campaign of it, and I wanted to share my thoughts on it. 19:37 - Have Games, Will Travel is supported by RPGNow.com 19:55 - Inspired by Chris Chinn's post on Fictional Positioning, I've been thinking a lot recently about the interaction between narration and mechanics in different RPGs. 28:21 - Find more podcasts like this one at RPGPodcasts.com. 28:26 - I promise I'll be back in two weeks with another show. --PaulDiscuss this episode in the HG,WT forum