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What If Brigade's home brew rules for Cogent - D10

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D10 Homebrew Rules for Cogent  Ten Scale Challenge Levels Attributes Magic Table Healing Table Yield Table On a D10:  6, 7, 8, 9 and 0 get a point.  While 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 don't. Love the new Cogent RPG !  And while the current rules are simple and accessible as most people have lots of 1D6 dice, I prefer 1D10 for certain reasons.  Since the "points" are pass fail, Cogent can be run with any even number of dice.  But 1D10 has certain advantages in my mind:  The ten scale where under 50% is a failure and over 50% is a success is very intuitive.  For the Challenge Levels, one to ten is a much more natural scale that people would use in everyday life.   If there is a 10% chance you'll die getting hit by a car travelling 20mph then it is Challenge Level 1.   If there is a 50% chance you'll die getting hit by a car travelling 30mph, Challenge Level 5.  And A 90% chance you'll die getting hit by a car travelling 40mph, Chall...
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Dogs & Druids: Domesticated Animals Training (RPG Economics)

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The Dark Ages  W hen many table top role playing games were first published, much of the common knowledge around animal training, particularly of dogs, was full of bad information. There were pioneers emerging in the field, and some of them use ancient techniques, but in the US during the 1980s and 1990s a lot of the things ordinary people thought they knew about animals were very wrong. And most role playing games are set in medieval fantasy worlds, historical knowledge of animal training techniques from that era is incomplete, but at least some of it was very cruel. So RPG writers can easily be forgiven for thinking Druids would be mostly suspicious of humans and that powers like the ability to communicate with animals via animal telepathy or use healing touch on animals wouldn't change much. However, this overlooks both the psychology of humans, animal behavior, and the economy of those times. In the ancient world domesticated animals like chickens, ducks, goats, sheep, pig...
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Fixing Slytherin House

Mega Spoilers: Turn Back Now I've never really bought the Harry Potter hype. I mean it certainly isn't Narnia, the Wrinkle in Time Series, Discworld or Tolkien. Kinda meh. And once JK Rowling revealed Dumbledore is a caricature of a gay man instead of a delightful stereotype breaking straight man... Lets just say all of those sentences that talk about parents worrying about leaving their kids with him suddenly are cringe. And once I found out she leans TURF (Trans Umbridge Radical Feminist) my disgust deepened. Unfortunately, I have kids so they are subjected to the series from friends and school. So, in an effort to purify my mind I'm going to try to fix the numerous problems around Slytherin House. This helps because I get to critique the main problem with the series and helps my kids understand why it is bad. Apologies for spelling mistakes. We Are All Slytherin's Now My first complaint is ALL of the major characters belong in Slytherin. Dumbledore - super powerful,...
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