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Using Twilight 2000 Resources with Blade Runner
Blade Runner is one of the published games by Free League which uses a version of the Year Zero Engine (YZE) which eschews dice pools in favour of stepped dice.…
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Languaging and the Naming of Things
One of the important things for the World is familiarity. I remember reading a great (and hefty) first RPG by a Scottish crowd and one of the things I remember…
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Patreon Launched
Some small encouragement from people exposed to my first short story set in the "Tales of Distant Lands" world, I've launched a Patreon. You can have a look at it…
Posted in23rd Letter Game Design In-Character
A Hopeful Ending and a New Beginning
We played our final session of The 23rd Letter play test this week, and wrapped up the story of Poppy and her baby. After recuperating overnight (under Joy's watchful care,…
Posted inGame Design Rise of R'lyeh
Rise of R’lyeh – Apocalyptic Mythos Horror
Playtest copies currently available Rise of R'lyeh is designed to work with the Year Zero Engine (Step Dice) shared by games like Twilight 2000, Bladerunner, Terminal Shock, The 23rd Letter…
Posted in23rd Letter Game Design In-Character
Venting Pyrokinetics
Our fourth and fifth in-game sessions of the 23rd Letter saw quite a lot of action! I'll give a brief summary, and then talk about some of the rules that…
Posted in23rd Letter Game Design The 23rd Letter
The 23rd Letter, 3rd Edition playtest doc
It's out there in the wild. We are inviting you to the Playtest. Either join our little Discord or, if you already own The 23rd Letter 2nd Edition, check your…
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Power Armour (Living Steel) for YZE-Step
An M.I. lives by his suit the way a K-9 man lives by and with and on his doggie partner. Powered armor is one-half the reason we call ourselves "mobile…
Posted in23rd Letter In-Character
A precog walks into a bar …
Now a few weeks into the first play-test of the 3rd edition of The 23rd Letter, I wanted to post some updates on what's been going in the game, and…
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YZE Dice Roller – including Step Dice
AJ built this YZE dice roller on the site so we have a super quick way of rolling dice and collecting successes. It's the only one that works for Step…