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StikBash: My Private Island of Misfit Toygaming
StikBash was my first real Frankengame. At its core, it’s just a mash-up of KootiKooti, 1000 Blank Cards and Z-G. CORE RULES The official rules to Kootikooti and 1000 Blank Cards act as the foundation...
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StikBashing Gamma World
Let’s get one thing straight: StikBash will never be finished, only abandoned. After all this talk about remixing and hacking games, I realized that I have FAR more games than I have time. I’m never...
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All Your Games, Toys, and Puzzles Are Belong To Flatpack
There’s a difference between games that are modded, hacked, remixed, and mashed-up and what I call a “real” Frankengame. A Frankengame is like the Winchester Mystery House: A sprawling mass of...
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YOU are the Hero: Mashing Up Fighting Fantasy and Dice Age
I saw a comment on the Dice Age Facebook page asking how to use them for solo gaming. I’ve been playing around with the idea for a while and was going to use them to remix Dungeon!, but then I...
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The Madness of Game Mechanics
“Most inventions start out like this: a lot of people being like ‘That’s not the way it was before’ and other people being like ‘SHUT UP I’M DRUNK.” - Hanna Hart I hacked-up my Beta edition of Edge of...
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Sticking It To The (Edge of the) Empire
By Michael P.: I don’t always do random things to dice, but when I do it’s exceptionally random. When I first tore up my Edge of the Empire beta, I completely ignored the dice stickers. After that...
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Dungeon and the DRGN Operating System
By Michael: Dungeon is still too boring, and I still feel the need to add stuff to it. I have a set of rune stones. Don’t ask how I got them. Anyway, after determining that they’re not magic rocks...
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It’s A Gamma, Gamma, Gamma, Gamma World
I miss Marvel SAGA. And I like Gamma World. And Gamma World has cards. Of course this means I have to make these things mesh somehow. I picked up some Blackmail stickers from Barnes and Nobel (instead...
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Apocalypse World + Jim Henson = The Apocalypse Show?
BY MICHAEL PACHECO The Goth Girl. The Rebel. The Wild Child. The Softie? The Apocalypse Show is what happens when you cut out the text from Apocalypse World and staple it into a Henson-themed doodle...
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The Board-and-Card-Gamification of Roleplaying Games and the...
BY MICHAEL PACHECO (This is just me rambling about mechanics, so don’t expect a point to all of this.) I’ve written about The Five before, but I think I missed one thing. The game’s domino mechanic...
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