Month: March 2013

ORC is a Role Playing Game rules system. ORC character creation is fairly crunchy, but its crunchy for a reason. The rules are primarily meant to model physics and biology. ORC gameplay is easy to learn and quick to use. All rules work from the same basic mechanic. The rules can scale from light to … Read moreOrganic Rule Components

Vajra games are not generic-genre games. Fates Worse Than Death is not “here’s a generic cyberpunk game where you can do anything you could in standard-cyberpunk-world.” It’s a very specific setting with very specific differences from standard cyberpunk. Now, I’m not trying to denigrate generic-cyberpunk, but if you’re trying to GM generic cyberpunk you don’t need me … Read moreORC: Why is it Crunchy?

Some people dislike character classes because they say they are too restrictive. I don’t think character classes, if they are done right, need to be “restrictive.” I know that character classes have been done poorly in the past, but that’s no reason to discriminate against something with great potential. First off, non-character class systems often … Read moreORC: Why Character Classes

From a post to Burn Immediately. I’d like to talk a little bit about the philosophy behind the ORC rules. I don’t expect anyone to agree with the philosophy, but I’d rather have people who don’t like the rules to think that it was because I have a different philosophy than because I have no … Read moreOrganic Rule Components: Design Philosophy