magitech Archives - Tribality https://www.tribality.com/tag/magitech/ D&D / Role Playing Tue, 07 Feb 2017 22:05:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://www.tribality.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-logo-2020-icon@2x-32x32.jpg magitech Archives - Tribality https://www.tribality.com/tag/magitech/ 32 32 The Secret of Zir’an, Part 3 https://www.tribality.com/2016/07/06/the-secret-of-ziran-part-3/ https://www.tribality.com/2016/07/06/the-secret-of-ziran-part-3/#respond Wed, 06 Jul 2016 12:00:03 +0000 http://www.tribality.com/?p=17306 I am returning to The Secret of Zir’an this week with one of my favorite parts of the book: character creation. While every game system has their own version of creating a character, this game does so in a way I would love to see adopted to other systems. In fact, the early playtest versions of D&D 5e came very close to this. You might not remember, but there was a time in the playtest where you chose a specialty […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2016/07/06/the-secret-of-ziran-part-3/feed/ 0 The Secret of Zir’an, Part 2 https://www.tribality.com/2016/06/15/the-secret-of-ziran-part-2/ https://www.tribality.com/2016/06/15/the-secret-of-ziran-part-2/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2016 12:00:12 +0000 http://www.tribality.com/?p=17065 Last time on Performance Check, I began to take a look at an older RPG by the name of The Secret of Zir’an. While the game’s reputation as one of the worst RPG books ever published is deserved, it’s not due to the content. This week, I am picking up from where I left off, and covering skills. As a brief reminder, this game was published back in 2005. Context is important when talking about progressive design, after all. Part […]

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