[Let’s Study: Trinity Continuum Core] Part 3b Conditions and Scale

Holy crap it’s been a while. Quarantine is still in effect in Manila, Philippines so I’ve been on a state of emergency all this time. But I figured I need to start re-establishing routine, and what better way to do it than to continue the Trinity Continuum Let’s Study series. When we last left off, […]

[Let’s Study: Trinity Continuum Core] Part 3a The Core Mechanic

We’re back with a Let’s Study session for Trinity focusing on the core mechanics that drive the Storypath system. 10-sided Dice Pools Here’s some familiar territory. The Storypath system relies on the use of pools of 10-sided dice that are determined by the Attribute + Skill being tested. This pool is then rolled and every […]

[Let’s Study: Trinity Continuum Core] Part 2 Character Creation

Jumping right into it, we’re off to do character creation for Trinity Continuum. Word of warning, this is going to be a bit of a long read, so make yourself something to drink and watch me build a character! Character creation is broken down into several steps: Concept Paths Skills, Skill Tricks, and Specialties Attributes […]

[Let’s Study: Trinity Continuum Core] Part 1 Introduction

I was a latecomer to the the original Trinity line of products from White Wolf. Fully invested in Mage: the Ascension at the time, I was only able to buy the Aberrant and Adventure! core rules and run a few scant games before falling back to a massive Ascension campaign for the rest of my […]

[Let’s Study: Unknown Armies] Review of Book One: Play

Unknown Armies is one of those books that would survive a bookshelf purge after a post-New Year’s viewing of “Tidying up with Marie Kondo”. It sparks the same kind of perverse joy on reading that puts me in the same bewildered headspace as I felt after I’d finished Grant Morrison’s “The Invisibles”. I feel that […]