This is awesome. I've got your essentials pack in my basket on amazon right now. Though your website says its 40$ it's showing at closer to $50. I'm sure the website just needs an update, but I figured I'd let it be known in case it was simply over looked.

I have a six point rapport chart that goes from 0 to 5 from hostile to elated. You can raise this by taking actions that fit with the alignment of the witness or lower it by acting against them and their goals There is a general rule of rapport across the community and a specific rapport with an individual non-player character that I as the narrator generally keep This rapport role goes even to party companions, man, and beast . If you can’t keep your beast companions rapport high then they will first begin to disobey and eventually once hostile seek to leave Have as many companions as you want, but due to work to keep them happy or you won’t have any at all

For resource management I check and see if characters have assured access to water and that they have at least 1 pound of good food per day per person If they don’t have proper food, water, safety, and a comfortable place to rest out of the weather than when they do the rest, they only get the minimum amount of recovery

For me, alignment is about how an Npc we’ll react to new information This does include threats, but I use it more, generally as a guide to their reaction

Drat, I was hoping this would include a link to a location I can just drop into my DnD 3.5 campaign. I don't see it as a stand alone on the Alloyed RPG website. Where would I look?

Here's some issues I've found with the "2 actions per turn" game design concept (even outside of ICRPG): It undermines the value of heavier weapons, that in theory take 2 actions to strike as the tradeoff for bigger damage. If I can make 2 attacks with a regular weapon, why bother lugging around the slower, inventory hog? At the same time, it could negate the idea of faster weapons, a conceptual double dagger attack with a special 'two attacks per turn' is meaningless (all weapons can attack twice), and 'two attacks per action' become OP with a potential of 4 attacks per turn. Also, what about enemies-do they get 2 attacks too? If not, it becomes unbalanced. If they do, it just turns into everyone gunning for attacking twice, which raises the question: what's the point? Countering or special ruling all of those factors can become messier than just separating and limiting the actions/moves - and I think these are at least some of the reasons so many games make the super clear distinction of move + attack vs 2 actions. This heavily playtested concept (move + attack) goes back to at least HeroQuest. Regardless, it's an interesting one to wrestle with.

Bit of necromancy here! In my games, I've always tried to implement the following: first we establish initiative, then I ask everyone what they plan to do, and then we start resolving in order, and I try to synthesize all the actions and describe the round in its totality if possible. Players can even pre-roll some stuff. It only works with few actors (players and/or aversaries), and it's kinda taxing on the DM, but I find that it's worth it to create immersion and lessen the feeling that we're playing a turn based game. There's still loading up front, but when we get to describing what happens in the fiction, that's dynamic and chaotic. So I recommend it if the GM feels they can make it work.

Congrats! I gotta say I don't really mind AI art as long as you're careful with how it looks and you don't lie about using it. But of course, who would ever lie about such a thing? Inconceivable, right? I know. Best wishes!

Just got my copy. Excited to play!

Great stuff! Thanks. 😊

I've read the corebook and I got some questions: 1) How do you define percentages for hard actions? I can look up to AC in DnD modules to define standart difficulty, but some examples for percentage calculation woul be nice thing to add in the book. 2) Aging mechanic. What if character is an elf, or some kind of robot, or some other creature that didn't age much? How do you explain to the players why their characters looses hitpoints and would eventually die, despite their choice? 3) How do you counter repeated actions? Like, difficulty of chest opening is 15. Why rogue cant just roll dice until he got the result? In ICRPG we got a timer and things got worse if you take to long to deal with it. In Cyberpunk you can't repeat the roll until you improve your chances. In DnD we can just take 20 if nothing is interrupting players. How do you deal with it in your games?

Glad the Algorithm put another indie dev in my path! Sounds very streamlined; I'll definitely give your videos a browse!

Very cool

I think the d4 is for adding a little more time. For example: They need to push a switch at the end of the room There is a group of mobs between them, so they engage, drop at least 1 mob and the next turn they can run to the switch. So it's 2 turns + d4 Also, thanks for the vid. I played dnd and we need to enter a fortress, but our DM throw every enemy on us. It was a TPK and dragged 4 hours of pure combat. I was bored at the 2nd hour

Question on how other GM handle follow ups. So if my player misses the target on an action, I tend to use a soft move where their missed action created a consequence. To my fellow GMs do you do this? If you do, do you let the player immediately follow up or move to the next player?

the reason i like icrpg hearts! luke gygax did an interview on dungeon craft, he talked about the games with his father as a young man and believes that there may have been a time when gary gygax the father of dnd fudged a dice roll or two so his son could enjoy a victory, a heart warming story of father and son. professor dungeon master has admitted to changing the hp of a monster on the fly for difficulty and story reasons if a monster has 4d6+3 hp there is a lot of wiggle room and i find it tempting to insert my judgement for the same reasons the heart system keeps me honest, if you beat the target ill tell you the hearts of everything in the room ironically the very simple heart system is seen by my group as the more hardcore option now you could do the same thing with traditional hp it would just take a little longer and I'm lazy

I spent a ton of years playing dungeon world and i think mixing icrpg and DW is a match made in combat. We roll the horde as a group hitting together. Base mob stat plus 1 for each additional mob on to hit and damage. 4 gobbos roll d20+4 (+1 mob stat, +1 for each additional mob). Fewer rolls and book keeping.

New to ICrpg. Needed a faster, flexible, game frame. Really appreciate your videos.

The heart system is something I'm torn on. I love the idea behind it, which is simplifying HP. The problem is that you still actually track damage by single digits. It's only MAX HP that's simplified. A more pure implementation of Hankerin's idea is the hit system used in EZD6 and Viking Death Squad. I'm tempted to switch to that, but I have more studying to do on it before deciding.

I like indie systems.

In the rpg I'm designing there are three "stats": Soldier, Scholar and Spy. Each represents physical, emotional, mental and spiritual attributes inherent in their development. A character with high Soldier not only is athletic, but also has his emotions in check, knows about weapons, equipment, certain animals (hounds, hawks, horses), and even knows some battle magic (if only to intimidate or paralyze for a moment a foe). My rpg design only involves four levels of power (like ICRPG). I haven't bought IC yet, but now plan to do so. Thanks!

7:02 "comment below...two actions?" No. I don't even like the double dash. Double dashes ruins chase mechanics. I think you should be able to run and hit someone (HARD roll perhaps). I don't think you should be able to trade swinging your arm for an additional NEAR move. I think running (move action) and tackling (action) is part of USA football and Rugby, and this is how your TTRPG should work. In really, all turns get one Action, and you can move up to NEAR as part of your action.

The 3 Ts has improved my DMing immensely and I cannot express that enough

I have no more wall space for artists ally lol

I'll have to look at the page in the book for the larp'ing

We got the autograph of William Shatner

First comment.. I was there with my wife .I'm dressed in a green LINK HOODIE WITH OUR WHITE CHIHUAHUA PUPPY AND OUR TWO NEPHEWS I FORGOT TO GO TO THE DND IMPROV CLASS WITH VILLAINS . I WANTED TO GO . BECAUSE IM A BEGINNER DM

Hankerin is the reason I'm more stoked about TTRPGs than ever before. His energy, design philosophy and shared videos on his own channel are what gets me super excited. Crown and Skull is his latest, absolutely fantastic game. Can't wait to run it soon.

I was thinking of hearts akin to an effort challenge. Breaking down the door would be two hearts, so above 20HP. But if they're under Two Full hearts, then make the challenge hard roll.

Like myself it sounds like you would gravitate to a TTRPG system that I love called: D100 Dungeon by MK Games and developed by Martin Knight!

For the longest time I've never really understood the percentile die. I cannot thank you so much for giving the traget example. 😮

Funny thing to me about Ye Olde Taverne is that in the 1e PHB Gygax said to have the pc's start at the entrance to the dungeon, having met at a tavern or the like and deciding to explore this dungeon you've heard about as a group. And off you go. How that got reversed into "start in a tavern and spend an hour getting to know each other before some mysterious stranger..." I have no idea, but it was already a trope when I started in the mid-80's.

Very cool! Looks like it could be used multiple times in the same game as well since you can change the code

Nothing like a bit of basic cryptography to excite your players, would probably be a lot of fun.

This hobby thrives on its people. Not the books or the accessories or the toxic corporations. This guy is one of the best out there rn, making the rpg world a better place. Good interview.

Regarding finite campaigns, I think all good things must come to an end.

There's a risk that the party can't decide on what to do with their hostages, and there will be a 50/50 split and things might get really intense and it can lead to PCs fighting or players leaving their group. If the party can't decide on what to do with the hostages, I have to proposals: 1. you have a back-up event / encounter that makes the decision for them. 2. You call for a time-out and mediate. Consider potentially hand-wave any problems away and agree to suspend disbelief regarding the lack of a proper in-game solution.

Two stats for your brain is dumb.

Alnico Island, you say... I'm a guitar player, and Alnico sounds like my favorite telecaster pickups! :) In all seriousness, you're living in my favorite space in the TTRPG space. I love games that allow for homebrew, mashups, etc. ICRPG blew my mind wide open, and your tutorials were part of that, and that's cool!

This is massive. Thank you so much for this. I hadn't really thought of how to bring it all together but ICRPG is a fantastic engine, and the DIY ethic of the whole thing makes it amazing. You can make anything YOUR game. This video lit a fuse under this gamer's backside! Thank you!

I've been using the Magic the Gathering pie chart in place of alignment for awhile. It makes for more interesting characters I think. Characters can be 1 or 2, maybe 3 colors. Super brief summary for those who don't know. White: focus on the collective, order, the greater good Blue: focus on knowledge, improvement, planning ahead Black: focus on the self and what's important to you above the needs of others Red: focus on passion, emotions, being in the moment. Green: focus on harmony, finding balance and your place in the world.

There are loads of one page dungeons that people have done for Mörk Borg and there are some really good ones that can be sort of kit-bashed into pretty much any system

Cypher has "Might", an amalgamation of STR and CON

I’m not sure about the double action, but it’s an interesting concept. Action economy would be balanced, but would it screw up the math of effort at all?

dnd 5e reactions keep people involved when it isn't their turn.

There is another con coming to Greenville, 9/8 - 9/10, Anime Town.

Not an alignment fan. Personally it just leads to more arguments/delaying discussion than it fixes IMHO. Especially if 'the rules' that they are following or breaking aren't written out, understood, and mutually agreed upon. For example, a 'letter of the law' player, playing a [ 1 ] Good / Follows the Rules character will never kill a hostage. Another [ 1 ] Good / Follows the Rules character's player may say it is 'Good' to kill a [ 4 ] Bad Rules Breaker. Another [ 1 ] might say a 'Bad' person who is Following the Rules is bound to eventually Break the Rules and kill them, are they no longer a [ 1 ]? These are 'the rules' I initially spoke of, not game rules, but setting rules, or 'laws'. Then add in all the morality issues and questions, for example, are the Goblins raiding farmers fields "Bad" if they're doing it to feed their families? They are not members of society, so are they "Breaking the Rules" per se? I say, let the players portray their characters from scene to scene as they want. (I guess I am True Neutral) If you want to steer play, introduce ramifications for actions you want to address. Players take no prisoners? Enemies hear about them and fight to the death, possibly getting a bonus, for the added knowledge that if they don't they will surely die. Play a Cleric NPC that won't help them, so they'll have to see if the young scribe might have picked up some skill and might be incentivized to assist instead. As for feeding and Supplies, there is already Supply rules sprinkled throughout the book. If you have the PDF, do a search and you can bounce through them. One of my biggest gripes of ME is they were never consolidated and refined.

Good work Steve! I would absolutely agree with you about the home brew comment. Maybe the first few sessions I ever played we stuck "closely" to the rules but some mechanics seemed clunky and others just didn't seem to fit our group so we quickly morphed the rules into what works best for us. Folks will have their own tastes when it comes to TTRPGs but I have always enjoyed the story telling over the bogged down fighting system and gravitate towards the simpler fighting mechanics that move quickly through combat so the story can continue.

Very cool.

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