More Playtesting

I posted a new kickstarter update about opening up the playtest to all backers. If you’re a backer, please respond here or on the kickstarter update. Thanks!

Learning Situational Abilities

One thing I’m liking about the Five Moons system is because there’s no limit to the number of cronks/spells/stunts you can learn, I can create really specialized, situational abilities that don’t have much use outside of those circumstances, but characters aren’t penalized for learning them. For example, let’s say there’s a dark forest where giant…

Skills, Nonmagical Superpowers, and an Informal Adventure Playtest

This news will probably be lost in a sea of #sports hashtags, but I’m posting it anyway! ===== Today’s writing agenda is finishing up the Know skill section of the playtest document, explaining the baseline level of knowledge you have if you aren’t trained in a skill. It’s a lot of words. :p ===== This morning…

Update #43: Five Moons Playtesters Are GO!

I just sent Playtest 1.0 document download links to playtest-level backers… and boy are my arms tired!

Choice Paralysis vs. Choice Scarcity

As I’m giving the playtest Classes chapter a once-over before sending it out to the playtesters, I’m thinking about the problem of “choice paralysis” in gaming. Choice paralysis is when you have so many options for what your character can do on your turn that you have a hard time decision about which you should…

Update #38: Preparing Your Feats

I posted Update #38 to the Kickstarter page, which includes part of the intro to the Feats chapter explaining how you select which feats (cronks, spells, or stunts) you want to be able to use each day.

Update: Expanding Options, Traditional Fantasy Races

I posted Update #37 to the Kickstarter page, a detailed update about a change to character classes that greatly expands your options when you level up, some more info on the standard races going into the Corebook, and another Gerald Lee art preview.

Playtest Update and Wuxia Weapons (cronk)

I posted Update #36 to the Kickstarter page, just a quick update about the upcoming playtest, a new cronk that should please players who want badass unarmed monk characters, and another Gerald Lee art preview.

Bard Stuff!

Heya, folks! Just wanted to give you an update on the playtest document, specifically about the bard class. Bards have always been a problem because they’re designed as a support class, and when a support class has to fill in for a role normally occupied by a primary class (like a bard healer in a…

Sneaking, Class Skills

The Five Moons RPG playtest has been delayed because I’ve been fiddling with bits of the skills system. Sneaking As I mentioned in an earlier blog, Stealth in 3E/PF is a little wonky, and–because creatures are assumed to be looking in all directions at once–basically you can’t use Stealth if there isn’t cover or concealment.…