Eryssel's Journeys

I've been wanting to design my own Roll & Write game ever since I learned about the ROLL & WRITE DESIGN CONTEST from the Board Game Geek forums. However, coming up with an idea tends to be more difficult than expected, and it's not like inspiration works on command. Spoiler alert! Yesterday, I was reading about charts and dice rolling probabilities in RPG games. This happened because I recently played a USR RPG solo session , in which the monster chart I had designed proved to be incredibly overpowered, having all my characters die in a glorious Total Party Kill scenario. The article I had found, titled "Encounter Table Bell Curve" , mentioned an example using a 1d4+1d6 roll and explained the rarity of all possible results in terms of percentages. AAAAND that's when inspiration hit!! ME: "Hey! Common, uncommon, rare, very rare... that sounds like item tiers in a game! IN FACT, Assasin's Creed Odyssey (which I've been playi...

RPGs tend to use dice, lots of 'em! So, it's common to find, as part of a gamer's collection, some tools and gadgets specially designed to ease all that rolling. The two most common are dice trays and dice towers. However, buying them can be expensive, and depending on where you live, getting either of those can cost a bit of $$$. Of course, there's always an alternative because with a little bit of patience, and some random household items, you can craft a dice tower and a dice tray yourself! After searching all over the web for possible methods of crafting (and pretty much discarding all those that required complex carpentry tools or other advanced skills), I found two wonderful solutions. DICE TRAY: For the first one, all you need is a cheap photo frame, some felt fabric (or any other type of fabric that has some soft thickness to it), and a pair of scissors. Essentially, all you have to do is to remove the glass from the frame, and instead of framing...

Hello! It's been a couple of months since my last update. But fear not! Here's a new entry for all of you. Today, I'd like to delve into the realm of tiny yet flavorful role-playing games. I have been reading, collecting, and studying a bunch of minimalist RPGs that are available for free for the past year or so. There are LOTS of different options available, and most of them take but a couple of minutes to read. Because I'm a solo RPG enthusiast, part of my research has focused on the possibility of being able to play those games on my own. And, I've found two systems that I consider to be a true delight: Bivius and USR! BIVIUS The first one , I've already referenced here on the blog. I'm talking about Riccardo Fregi's (AKA Lost Pangolin) glorious and minimalist: Bivius What makes it so great? For starters, it's main aim is solo gaming, which means that you need no special circumstances to play, as long as you have the time to do so. Al...