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Factions
Every campaign deserves factions. A faction is, broadly speaking, a group of people connected by a shared belief or opinion within a larger group. In terms of the roleplaying campaign, factions are the spice that lifts your game from individual encounters linked only by the… -
Are We Stalled?
I’ve become acutely aware that I haven’t posted much to this site since I revamped it at Christmas. What, you may ask, am I playing at? -
Alpha Combat
Moving ever closer to an actual playtest of Alpha, we’ve uploaded a draft of the Combat Rules for consideration and testing. If you would like to download the draft, click here: Alpha Combat Rules. Alpha prefers to play using miniatures and a hexed battle area,… -
Waking Up Dead
Adam Forth drifted in a haze, floated in a light that surrounded him. There was no sense of direction, no gravity. Adam was simply there. Yet not alone. “Do you remember what happened?” Adam wasn’t sure that he did remember. He strained his mind back… -
Alpha Rule Elements
Now available for download and comment is the first draft of the fundamental element of the Alpha game rules, namely the basics of tests, along with drafts for the character attributes and skills sections of the game. The Basic Rules reveals the “core mechanics” of… -
Shattered Souls
Adam Forth was a pretty decent IT guy until he got knocked down by a car, on his way to work one winter’s morning. That was the day that Adam died. Yet that wasn’t the end of things for Adam. Soul Shards is a new… -
Into Poland…
It’s been quiet but do not be deceived… Germany is about to roll into Poland. In Sept 1939, the Third Reich created a pretext for war and invaded Poland, starting the chain of events that would become the Second World War. Enthusiastic young Germans, excited… -
Choices, choices
Writing a roleplaying game is slow work for me. Yet, it’s made harder by the tough choices to be made. With this in mind, I would like to hear your views on something important: character creation. How would it be best to go about creating… -
Brandenburg-X
In 1938 the Nazi regime in Germany, the Third Reich, was a cemented government. To the outside world, it seemed a growing and unassailable dictatorship which had the backing of the people of Germany. Nothing could have been further from the truth. In Dark Reich,…