So three cycles of the moon had waned and waxed, and the North Cave Mystic, curious about the progress of his disciples, made a trek to the Mirror Lake.
To the second disciple he made the first visit. The disciple was working, flow-charts of progression of the game from void to termination hang on the walls, while matrices detailing how different elements of the game harmonize with each other lay upon the tables. His details rivaled that of Fuxi’s I Ching!
Tags: Game Design
Erect upon on island, deep within the Coradian Sea, is a massive obelisk which reaches up into the sky. Hexagon in shape and jet-black in colour, it has the writings of different languages, most now long lost, etched along its surface. A learned scholar would be able to recognise Ancient Emphidian, Anicent Kaikuhran, an old dialect of Bacchile, Nascerine and even Qemor Hieroglyphs. What is the secret behind this massive standing stone? Who is the author of what is written there? More importantly, what is being written there and why?
Tags: adventure idea, dragon warriors, fantasy, seeds
An artist from Xiangyang trembled with fear. He was given an impossible task to draw; to with his brush paint an impossible creature that no myths had mention of, no eyes had laid upon and no words could describe it. Yet he was poor, and desperate and hence he spent an entire day seeking the Sage of the Sleeping Dragon Ridge. And when he found the Sage, he prostrated himself before the great Sage, begging him for his help.
“Get up,” the sage said while sipping tea, “What is the task that troubled you so?”
Tags: Game Design
Within the courtyard of a church of the True Faith is a miraculous well – those who drink from it would find their dieases removed, and those impaired by insanity would be granted a brief respite. As such, the church is highly protected by the warrior-monks who oversee the access to the well. The real nature of the water, however, has a more much supernatural origin. A Dragon Pearl resides in the well. While Black Dragon Pearls grants wealth, this is the pearl of an Earth Dragon (which according to Khitian lore, represents health and vitality). This bestows the healing properties of the well
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PiecePack is a set of board game elements which are open-domain, which can be used to create your own board games. There are already more than 100+ rules based on PiecePack elements, and the best thing is that they are freely available from the web-page; you can also buy them from various manufacturers too. Below is a sample of how a piece-pack element looks like:
Tags: board game, Game Design
The First Disciple of the North Cave Mystic said thus to the Second Disciple: “You have the Supreme Gameplay, I have the Supreme Code. You and me are destined for greatness. We should work together and who in the world of games can defy us?”
The Second Disciple agreed, and the two of them moved inwards into the Tianshan Mountains for solitude and silence. Work began in earnest, with the First Disciple immediately beginning to scribe code with his Perfect Art of Ones and Zeros Ordering and the Second Disciple putting together the Ultimate Expression of a Game.
Tags: Game Design
Dragon Warriors may come across as an odd one in the RPG world, even with its re-release. It is old school in feel and tone and with D20 taking the crown for being rules-heavy, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay being the poster child of grim and gritty and Castles and Crusaders being the representation of “harking back to the times of yore”, Dragon Warriors feel like it is squeezed out from the pack.
Sleeping Gods, and the campaign world Legend, I feel, is the real reason why Dragon Warriors shine. In this review I hope to explain why. Needless to say, this review is abound with spoilers.
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Tags: dragon warriors, fantasy, Reviews & Culture
Hiding within an isolated hovel upon the mountain, the second disciple of the North Cave Mystic worked on his game design. How he labored and toiled, pushing the pen to scribe the perfect experience, one that fills the very soul of the player with emotion and feelings! How he calculated, to ensure a depth of strategy in which mastery of it would be as gratifyingly as finding the Deep Pearl of the Southern Dragon Sea!
Tags: Game Design
Stonechapel is a fortress-city, starting first hundreds of years ago as a simple citadel, now it is home to hundreds within. Farms spring up about the fortress to feed its garrisons and the merchants who come by to sell their tools and metal ignots. Sitting in the centre of a fertile vale, Stonechapel guards a vital point within the immediate area. So it may comes as a surprise that one of the gates is unguarded at all times. No hawk-eyed sentry watches from the wall or stern guard captain stands by the gate. In fact, the area seems to be devoid of people.
Tags: adventure idea, fantasy, seeds
Now the Mystic of the North Cave had three disciples. And the eldest of them, a programmer well-versed in the Secret Arts of the Ones and Zeros Ordering, came to the North Cave Mystic and demanded leave to finish his training. “For I have conquered the Perfect Pair”, the Eldest Disciple boasted, “And with my Art of Ones and Zeros Ordering, I will subdue the world of gaming and become a hegemony that will stand for eternity.”
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