Stan Shinn

Tabletop RPG Blogger, Podcaster, Author, Game Designer, and owner of Rogue Comet. When I'm not playing games I'm active in my church and local gaming community.

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Shinn's 3rd Axiom: The odds of players using your map is inversely proportional to the time you spent preparing it.

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@richardrohlin @smuplayer @NotJonMollison We should game together in DFW! Here are some sample wargames I've run (mostly skirmish, mostly rules like Dragon Rampant or One Page Rules). @smuplayer and I are buds. https://t.co/KFqYgwjkeW

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@roddreher They should have had 8 Tracks on the list.

[Chaosium @Chaosium_Inc]

Create the perfect beast!

🦖 Stats for monsters, enemies, and NPC for all game genres

🦖 Rules for creating your own wicked creatures

🦖 Compatible with Call of Cthulhu, Pendragon, RuneQuest, and any other D100 game!

Available everywhere November 12th!

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@Chaosium_Inc Will be interested to see how they convert creatures for use with Pendragon.

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The fateful scene when the serum failed was Scene 4 in a write-up I did of the adventure here: https://t.co/jnIsI4XeML

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🚀 Captain’s Log Hack Alert!
We came up with a slick house rule for solo Star Trek games using the Yes/No Probability Matrix in Captain’s Log by Modiphius. 🖖✨
Use it like a Clock in PbtA games! 🕰️

#StarTrek #StarTrekAdventures #ttrpg #rpg

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So the next scene we rolled against 'Somewhat Improbable', and the next scene we rolled against '50/50' until a scene happened where someone's serum finally failed (at a most inconvenient moment of course). I will definitely be using this rule again.

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You can visualize that here.

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So in our game we had an injected serum that made our bodies mimic the appearance of the local alien race. When we first beamed down, we deemed it was 'Improbable' that the serum would fail for one of our party. Each subsequent scene the clock ticks down (moving the arrow up).

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You start with a given probability and each time you find the need to check if the event happened or not, the clock goes up a row.

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Full write-up of the adventure is here: Captain's Log 01: A Shocking Revelation https://t.co/zCRnIsQaX9

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Alien race from the first adventure of our TOS era Taurus Reach campaign using the Star Trek Adventures Captain’s Log Solo RPG from Modiphius, played cooperatively with five players and no GM. Anyone recognize the inspiration?

#startrekadventures #startrek #rpg #ttrpg

[Chaosium @Chaosium_Inc]

QuestWorlds is a rules engine designed for play in cinematic, larger-than-life settings inspired by classic pulps, comic books, and weird fiction.

Gets yours on February 13th!

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🚀 My Star Wars conversion for John Lambshead's One-Hour Skirmish Wargames is popular in the miniatures wargaming community! Find the core rules on Amazon. My rules feature scenarios and solo/coop options and are hosted on their Facebook group. May the Force be with you! 🌌

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Here's the 12 books we read from which The Black Company was a winner: https://t.co/0Qi2zmESGm

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My book club has selected our 1st Annual 'Book of the Year' award done in honor of a long time gamer friend and book club member who lost a battle with cancer. This year's winner is 'The Black Company' by Glen Cook.

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@mikemearls @KevinLamb74 Back in the D&D Next days I was excited about the prospect of a 1-10 level only game. I was bummed when the later design didn't keep the polyhedral dice as skill levels mechanic (roll a d4 instead of a +2 skill).

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I ordered the dice individually to make the dice set in that picture but since have discovered Chessex has pre-built color coded sets! https://t.co/hUulEjAEmx

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Bought some color coded Chessex dice to use in my Paragon RPG games. Colors will help to teach first-time RPG players since I can say things like 'roll a d8 for your Domain die -- that's a green one.'

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@mikemearls I ordered the dice individually to make the dice set in that picture but since have discovered Chessex has pre-built color coded sets! https://t.co/hUulEjAEmx

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@mikemearls Too late, my hopes are up! Casting Rachel Brosnahan was an amazing move.