One of the things I’ve always wrestled with in Rotted Capes is how hard do we lean into survival? Because at its heart, this is a superhero horror game. You’re not random civilians with a baseball bat and a prayer. You’re enhanced. You’re dangerous. You can punch through a wall. But two years after Z-Day? […]
One of the things that always bugged me about a lot of RPG combat is how flat it feels. You roll initiative, you take turns, you trade hits, and that’s… kind of it. The scenery doesn’t matter unless someone remembers it. The villain fights exactly the same way at full health as they do on […]
Okay, so here’s the thing: when I started reworking how threats work in Rotted Capes: Second Bite, I wasn’t trying to make scarier or flashier monsters. Honestly? I just wanted them to be easier to throw together and harder to screw up. I’m an engineer at heart, and I love systems that give you guardrails […]
This idea started the way most dangerous rules ideas do: mid-session, half a cup of cold coffee in, watching players do something clever that the rules technically allow… but fictionally feels off. Armor. Specifically, armor that just keeps working. In Rotted Tropicz, the characters are scraping by in heat, salt air, blood, rot, and bad […]
This is a long one… wrote this stream of consciousness last night, did a few Grammarly passes (it caught a few things and a lot of misspellings)… I re-read this a few times this morning, but don’t know if I got my point across the right way. So, here I am, writing an “issue” for […]