Comments on: Home Cookin’ Some Rules http://www.dnaphil.com/2008/05/14/home-cookin-some-rules/ Game Master/ Project Manager/ Gnome Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:47:40 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tommi http://www.dnaphil.com/2008/05/14/home-cookin-some-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-101 Tommi Thu, 15 May 2008 10:26:33 +0000 http://www.dnaphil.com/?p=95#comment-101 I have some experience with homebrewing and have noticed that it is quite easy to design and play games that don't have huge lists of stuff; using freeform traits or very coarsely defined characters decreases the necessity of actually using any rules-document in actual play, which, at least for me, increases the probability of playing significantly. Success is a matter of designing a lot, reading new and different games, and stealing liberally. Being an rpg theory junkie and knowing some mathematics helps. I have some experience with homebrewing and have noticed that it is quite easy to design and play games that don’t have huge lists of stuff; using freeform traits or very coarsely defined characters decreases the necessity of actually using any rules-document in actual play, which, at least for me, increases the probability of playing significantly.

Success is a matter of designing a lot, reading new and different games, and stealing liberally. Being an rpg theory junkie and knowing some mathematics helps.

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