Someday I expect someone to accuse me of writing fiction and RPGs that are nothing but propaganda in furtherance of some political ideology. I’ve prepared a response for the day I stand accused, and because I’m not a patient sort of fellow, I’ll go ahead and give my response now: I do not create fictional … Read moreThe SciFi School of Politics
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
ORC is the Creative Commons licensed role playing game rules of Fates Worse Than Death, Tibet, In Dark Alleys and other great games. Step One: Come up with the concepts for each class, including what they tend to be good at and tend to be bad at. For instance, in a highschool RPG, the classes … Read moreCreating Character Classes in ORC
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From a discussion on Burn Immediately. SPOILER NOTE This references material from the GM-Only section of In Dark Alleys and should not be read by players. The purpose of most elements of modern society is to keep people distracted so they don’t find out any of the important truths. Thus the collapse of society after … Read morePost-Apocalyptic In Dark Alleys
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