{"id":516,"date":"2019-10-07T02:57:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T02:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/?p=516"},"modified":"2019-10-07T02:57:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T02:57:11","slug":"lasers-feelings-hack-for-fantasy-dungeon-crawling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/07\/lasers-feelings-hack-for-fantasy-dungeon-crawling\/","title":{"rendered":"Lasers &#038; Feelings Hack for fantasy dungeon-crawling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Characters in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onesevendesign.com\/laserfeelings\/\">Lasers &amp; Feelings<\/a> (a free, one-page RPG. It&#8217;s so good!) are defined by contrast &amp; tension. It&#8217;s right there in the name: Lasers oppose Feelings. They pull characters apart instead of leading them to a single point.\u00a0 It&#8217;s quite a paradigm shift for me, because I usually build characters around a central theme, with each detail re-enforcing the others.\u00a0 Can I define the stock characters of fantasy dungeon-delving in terms of contrast?\u00a0 Let&#8217;s try!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rogue:<\/strong> cowardice &amp; greed<br \/>\nHeists, reconnaissance, and assassinations are tense activities, so it&#8217;s easy to see how a Rogue is torn between making the score and avoiding a fair fight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wizard:<\/strong> knowledge &amp; destruction<br \/>\nWizards are nerds that love books, research, and high-quality paper. Wizards will also turn you into a newt, strike you with lightning, and drop you through a portal to Hell.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bard:<\/strong> sex &amp; puns<br \/>\nThis is the cultural consensus on proper Bard activities, although not many systems provide official support for them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fighter:<\/strong> combat<br \/>\nThe Fighter only has one stat, because Fighters are one-dimensional and boring. A fighter who tries to do something that doesn&#8217;t fall under &#8220;combat&#8221; fails without rolling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Characters in Lasers &amp; Feelings (a free, one-page RPG. It&#8217;s so good!) are defined by contrast &amp; tension. It&#8217;s right there in the name: Lasers oppose Feelings. They pull characters apart instead of leading them to a single point.\u00a0 It&#8217;s quite a paradigm shift for me, because I usually build characters around a central theme, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/07\/lasers-feelings-hack-for-fantasy-dungeon-crawling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lasers &#038; Feelings Hack for fantasy dungeon-crawling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character-build","category-rpg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}