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Interrogations in BLOCK BY BLOCK

 

This is the current draft of what happens when you have an interrogation/manipulation action scene in BLOCK BY BLOCK. 

 

When you are having a conversation with someone who doesn’t want to help you, HP becomes Hostile Position.

At 0 Hostile Position, you succumb to the other …

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Block by Block: design diary 2

My friend Ben asked me the other day, "What's the benefit of OSR? I mean, what does it give you for this game that you wouldn't get from another kind of system?" Thinking aloud, in written form, follows. 

1) Underlying structures. 

The classic six D&D stats kind of "don't do anything". Certa…

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Block by Block: Design Diary 1

I didn't get a real playtest this weekend [posted 24 Sep 2018] but I did manage to test the probabilities by doing a solo run-through of a lone detective over an in-game month. Not 'realistic', since in actual play I wouldn't know the threshold for the next break in the case, but by and large it che…

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