James M. Spahn's RPG Musings
James M. SpahnThe substack of a veteran RPG designer discussing the design, development, and industry of tabletop roleplaying games.
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Pirate Adventures Development: Crossing Blades
Swashbuckling is cool. Swashbuckling piracy is what I’m going for in White Box: Pirate Adventures, so I wanted to have a set of rules for duels. Because let’s face it, duels are just cool. I know this from first hand experience because I to...
Pirate Adventures: Keeping to the Code
So, I’ve been tooling White Box: Pirate Adventures around and I think I’ve got the core of my player facing rules down - at least as far as character creation.
Attributes stay the same. Core six. 3d6. You know the deal.
Hopefully, your DM...
A Pirate’s Life for Me?
Pirates are fun. Roleplaying games are fun. Pirate roleplaying games are lots of fun. To quote Mark Twain:
“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”
The cool thing is that God did perm...
What’s in a White Box?
So left a comment on a previous article:
White box is indeed very, very confusing. I have the FMAG and Dungeon Adventures. Best that I can tell, there are three main versions: Swords & Wizardry, FMAG, and DA. But they seem to overlap wi...
Death & Shadow for Shadowdark is Now Available
Just in time for spooky season, I’m releasing Death and Shadow: A Book of Necromancy for Shadowdark. This 60 page supplement is something I’ve been tooling with for a few months and in a fit of midnight madness last night, I finally finishe...
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Veteran RPG designer. Owner of Barrel Rider Games. Freelanced on a lot of IP-based games. Written a lot of vintage fantasy & sci-fi RPGs as BRG. My words are mine and don't reflect any other person or organization.
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