[Let’s Study: Unknown Armies] Part 4: Conflict

Finally, one of the most interesting chapters in Unknown Armies: Conflict. Mechanically, conflict in Unknown Armies is broken down into Coercion and Combat. Coercion Coercion is defined in the book as the use of non-violent means to change people or their actions. This being Unknown Armies, Coercion is not nice, instead the Coercion rules come […]

[RuneQuest] Sample Combat

EDIT: Thanks to the RuneQuest Community, I’ve corrected some of the more glaring issues with my initial understanding of the combat rules. The version below is the most complete take on it. EDIT 2: Thanks to commenter Phil Hibbs for his feedback to help me figure out how Strike Ranks are calculated per round. I’ve […]

[Mage: the Awakening] Darker Days – Part 1

Kicking off the Actual Play Reports for Darker Days, my Mage: the Awakening campaign with this post. If you’re new, please check out the characters in this post. This will be written in a narrative style, and while I am using the Boston setting native to Mage: the Awakening, I’ve taken incredible liberties in characters, […]

[Mage: the Awakening] The Cast of Darker Days

Today I got to kick off my Mage: the Awakening 2nd Edition campaign, “Darker Days”. But before I start putting up my actual play reports in earnest, I figure I might as well spend a little bit of time talking about the cast of characters first. The initial brainstorm of this campaign was something that […]

[Let’s Study: Unknown Armies] Part 3: The Character

And we’re back! I’ve been thrown off the horse of regular blog posting due to some real life stuff (illness and such, nothing horrible) but I’m back to reading Unknown Armies. Today we’re looking at Character specific rules. We’ve touched on a lot of these elements in the previous entries so I’ll avoid repeating stuff […]