ideas

  • Spotlight Mechanics

    One interesting thing in Glitch: A Story Of the Not are spotlights. Each player has a few spotlights they are supposed to use each chapter of the story. When you spend one, you ask the GM (or someone else) to describe something in greater detail, until you’re satisfied. And that’s it! Pretty simple, but I…

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  • Taboo based magic

    I was rereading some Tim Powers and thinking about the game Perfect (by Joe McDonald). And naturally I want to mash them together. See, in Tim Powers novels, all these characters have weird rules that they have to follow. Solomon Shadroe can only eat cinnamon flavored candy and has to sleep on a houseboat. Loretta…

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