Using the Card of Fate System
Both Duty & Honour and Beat to Quarters (as well as Martin Lloyd’s upcoming Inferno rpg) use the Card of Fate system. These videos show you how to complete a simple and opposed test,...
Category: Game Play
Running a Clean Game: What are your hygiene factors?
I really am a big fan of Herzberg’s Two Factor theory. There, I’ve said it. The idea that there are things (called Hygiene Factors (HFs)) that cause you dissatisfaction and stop you from being...
Power and Control: The Out-of-Character Side
In my last article, I talked about the various types of power and how you could use them to accentuate a PC’s presence in a game or abuse them to undermine the role of...
Power and Control: The In-Character Side
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts. Perhaps the fear of a loss of power. —John Steinbeck Following on from the surprising popularity of my article on Player Character Commanding Officers, an article that dipped its toe...
Captain, My Captain
The issue of one PC having authority over another has been something that has perpetuated through RPGs for decades. When I first created Duty & Honour, over a decade ago, it was something that...