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Becoming Heroes Fast Character Generation

By John
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September 4, 2012
| 1 Comment
| Play Process

So, having recently worked up a number of characters for one shots at Gen Con, I needed to figure out a way to make a lot of characters quickly. If we ever print a revision to Becoming Heroes, one thing I want to change about the book is to write a lot more advice about […]

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Decision Points in Character Creation

By John
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April 9, 2012
| 3 Comments
| A Piece of Work development, Game Design

While we’re generally all about Becoming Heroes, we’ve recently hit upon one part that is harder than it needs to be—character generation. Right up front, we ask you to decide eight traits, three circumstances, and three ties. We don’t give you a lot of guidance around selecting these traits and people get stuck around six […]

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Chekhov’s PC

By John
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March 19, 2012
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One thing we haven’t talked much about here is character flags—things about a character that signal what kinds of story elements interest the player. For example, if one of your players has a character with lot of skill in picking locks, then probably you need to throw some locks at that character. This is a […]

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Traction

By Kit
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March 2, 2011
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| Game Design

It’s an ineffable quality. I think of it as traction, or grabbiness. It’s that quality that makes you just want to play something, and not just want to, but to know what you need to do in play. This character has to do this, to want this. This situation needs to explode in this fashion. […]

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Leveraged!

By John
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February 28, 2011
| 3 Comments
| Game Design

We just played through Leverage and it has me thinking a lot about a lot of different pieces. On balance, we had a ton of fun with it, even with only a passing familiarity with the rules. I’m sure our second play through will be smoother. As a license-based game, the system captures the feel […]

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