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Survival Horror Wound Gauges Reconsidered

Friday, January 20, 2012

In Wound Gauge Options, I offered some alternate methods of recording wounds in Fudge for specific genres including survival horror. This is a revision and expansion of that segment of the article. The survival horror wound gauge causes characters to be gradually worn down as their reflexes become slower and their top speed (movement rate) [...]

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Scenario-Writing Advice from Sandy Petersen

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Quite serendipitously, I discovered this article at Yog-Sothoth.com, The Lazy Man’s Guide to Constructing a Call of Cthulhu Adventure by Sandy Petersen, the designer of Call of Cthulhu himself. This advice may prove especially useful for this month’s Theme Challenge (q.v.).

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Theme Challenge October 2010

Saturday, October 2, 2010

I am instituting a new feature in Fudgerylog: the Theme Challenge. This is more of a personal challenge than anything else, as I am sure my readers are in the single digits, but it will serve as an impetus to overcome certain procrastinatory habits with which I do battle daily. A Theme Challenge is an [...]

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Musical Cues in Role-Playing Games

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Robin D. Laws has an interesting article in his Web log about using musical cues in certain kinds of role-playing games, which reminded me of a plan I had for using music and sound effects for some Star Trek gaming. It’s amazing how important sounds can be to the atmosphere of a setting. When I [...]

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