It's been commented that BIND has no introduction, saying 'what is a roleplaying game?', and I don't think it needs one. Of course, nobody's picking this thing up in a 90's game store, et c., but I feel we have a deeper problem. I think that no RPG - including D&D - really needs an explanation of 'how to do …

RPGs where nobody dies really irk me, because they have rules for dying. If you want an RPG where nobody ever dies (or runs out of food, or whatever), then I won't complain...until the rulebook states 'these are the conditions for death'. We have two problems. Problem 1: Fudging GMs Everyone writes up some dramatic …

Dice can give unexpected results when groups of people roll. When a group of 5 players need to roll to sneak past a guard, you already know someone will fail, because they have 5 chances to fail. If everyone rolls for Alertness, they will succeed every time, because they have five chances to succeed. The Alertness roll …

Ideas on Campaigns with Real-time synchronization seemed interesting, but I'm unsure how they will interact with my Story Weaving methods of constructing adventures. Presumably, if nobody who started part 1 of a thread is present, then part 2 will simply not appear. But what if 1 party member who saw part 1 is present? …

Whenever I'm unsure about a rule, I pull out a basic spreadsheet, and start populating numbers. The image I had for the ghoul spell began with a mage who could raise small things from the dead, like a cat, or dog. Slowly, the dark sorcerer would learn to raise gnomes, then humans, and finally raise undead ogres or …

The previous post went over changing BIND's Combat system significantly, but I've not been able to resolve the problems. Every change I make demands other fixes. Everything I fix breaks something else. Once combat's simplified, the shield's don't work. Or they work with swords, but don't provide any use when holding a …

BIND is changing how attacks work, and I can't believe I didn't think of this trick before. Very Bad Attacks The worst way to perform attacks must be GURPS Alice and Bob roll for Initiative Alice rolls to attack Bob rolls to dodge Bob rolls to attack Alice rolls to dodge That's 1 roll for the Initiative (both roll at …

Players roll the dice, and wait to see the landing. Like roulette, football, or anything else, the pay-off emerges when they physically see the result, and know in that instant, how things have gone. They get a moment of tension, then relief, or panic. Having an unknown Target Number (TN) moves the results away from …

My favourite WoD RPG will always be Changeling. I've run one campaign, and I wish I had time to run more. I don't know if I'll ever have time to re-write it, like I did with Vampire, but I have plenty of concrete plans for changes. Seelie vs Unseelie The book began by saying 'Seelie' does not mean 'good', and …