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Approaches to Summoning

The black magician scrawls a crude circle upon the ground with a stick, carefully crossing the circle multiple times with an interconnecting series of lines. Into these grooves he pours...

Against the Dark Yogi

This is the first time I'm going to publicly babble about the specifics of our upcoming Indian mythology-themed game, and you've read it here on the Development Blog first. The...

Setting Sheet: Tansaar

This is our first of a new type of Freebie Spotlight: the Setting Sheet. Basically it's a page--both front and back--detailing a particular setting in brief. Over the coming month...

About Facing and the Grid

One element of the  Saga Machine  system that I've been debating the utility of is that of facing in combat. Currently, when using tactical positioning in combat, the system tracks...

Computing Traits

In preparing development for the next generation of  Saga Machine  games we've got a lot of mechanical bits and bobs to get a handle on. Between the core rulebook, companion...

Rethinking Encumbrance

Many RPGs have a system for dealing with encumbrance and how much a character can carry. On the surface, the purpose of encumbrance is pretty straight-forward: It's a mater of...

Structure of Second Generation Games

We're working on the next generation of  Saga Machine  games, but we're not sure quite yet what form those games are going to take. The first generation of games were...

Reconsidering Initiative

I was thinking about initiative recently--what it means in the game world and how it ought to work. Initiative in RPGs is kind of an of an odd beast. In...

Introducing the Development Blog

We'd like to introduce our new  Development Blog . This blog is going to be a whole lot less formal than the TabBlog. It's a place where we can ramble...

Introducing the Development Blog

Welcome to our new development blog. This blog is going to be a whole lot less formal than the  TabBlog . It's a place where I can ramble on about...

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