[Campaign Design] Planning the Apocalypse

After giving it some thought over the weekend and talking it over with Silver Countess and Hikkikomori, I’ve been looking at the idea of running a post-apocalypse game as an option. I’ve mentioned earlier that I’ve been on a Fallout binge, so the idea of Post-Apocalypse gaming is on top of mind as of late. […]

[Let’s Study: Degenesis] Part 6 – Conclusions & Review

Once in a while you run into a game that has teeth. Degenesis is one of those games. Everything about Degenesis communicates a single vision. The artwork and layout work seamlessly with the bleak nature of the setting and the deadly nature of the combat system to create a consistent whole. Degenesis is not a […]

[Let’s Study: Degenesis] Part 5 – Sample Combat, Kristof’s First Bar Brawl

Now that we’ve had a bit of time to build a character of our own, let’s put Kristof (and the CatharSys system) to the test by having him get into his first bar brawl as a Marshal. For the sake of this playtest, I’ll be pitting Kristof up against the sample character from the Degenesis […]

[Let’s Study: Degenesis] Part 4 – Character Creation & Sample Character

Degenesis’ character creation system is fairly straightforward, and has about the same level of complexity as Legend of the Five Rings 4e. There’s a little bit of flipping back and forth between pages, but nothing quite as migraine inducing as the old 3rd Edition L5R. Degenesis includes a summary of character creation, something that I […]

[Let’s Study: Degenesis] Part 3 – The CatharSys Ruleset

Now that we’ve had a look at the factions and history of Degenesis, let’s go ahead and pop open the hood of this thing and see what makes it tick. Degenesis has its own proprietary system called CatharSys. It’s an interesting system and I’ll try to give a general overview of how things work. At […]