Fight scene ideas for Hong Kong action games

Fight in the graveyardUnarmed fight, 1 to 2 opponents per character, complication: mourners Camp of the King's loyalistsUnarmed combat, 3 to 4 enemies per character, complication: government loyalists have captured rebellious peasants The Shaolin school classFoot chase, 1 to 2 enemies per character, forest, complication: a Shaolin monk is teaching little monks in the forest. …

Maximum Game Fun: freeform Glorantha

In 1997, Michael O'Brian showed how freeform rpg is done. "Maximum Game Fun" was the concept, and Runequest players all over the world have been using it ever since: https://t.co/U3ATZGECka. This is the game in a nutshell: Character creationx Things your hero does better than the averagex Things he does worsex Things everyone knows about …

Shadowrun 1e in Risus: from 33 numbers down to 4

I LOVE Shadowrun.And I'm constantly tweaking rules, most of them FKR-style or Risus.Today, for the nth time, Risus.Take a look at the character sheet above. This is the famous Street Shaman of Shadowrun 1e. It has more than 30 (!!!) numbers. Not what I call elegant. So, let's Risus-ify it. It's a street shaman, so …

Fast D&D combat

Replace damage dice with Effect Rolls:Roll a d20. Below-average rolls mean below-average damage: neglegible. Middling rolls mean middling damage: 50 percent of a weak enemy's hp gone, but still nothing to write home about against boss-level nasties.Above-average rolls = above average damage. Weak foes die. Boss foes take a deep breath. Really high rolls = …

Forget dice. Draw an Everway fortune card instead. Online.

Everway still is one of the best diceless rpgs in the market. Its glorious Fortune Deck doesn't give you quantitative results, but qualitative ones. Interpret the card you drew (or let your player draw), and apply this insight to resolve any challenge in your game. I wanted to write this generator for a long time, …