Making a piratical invading dreams minigame hinging on a new snack-based NPC rule

Cosmic horror game where you mostly just ignore manoeuvres. (Assume it has a bunch of occasionally weird trackers to keep track of them)

Here's a new attempt to answer the SP Question: just use matchsticks to track resources. It's a lot quicker – especially in smug games!

And now, my attempt to answer the Life Point Dilemma: just let the players exchange batteries at any time. Hacky, but it works – especially in an antiheroic game!

Switch it up: make dialogue blind and stories blinder.

Make GURPS Supers into a modern/biopunk game by replacing all the pointcrawl tools with duel procedures (with tons of choices)

Make Daggerheart into a superhero game by replacing all the failure rules with bridging scene rules (with tons of action triggers).

Start creating a game inspired by (a) GURPS and (b) Wikipedia. But instead of pebbles, use trackers.

Supposedly, Mad Libs was originally going to have a fiction-based courtroom drama system! Maybe you could patch the gap with a smooth specialised art subsystem!!!

I use marbles to track abilities, especially in games that don't have narrative control.

Giving up on making a dialogue-based cleric class and going all in on familiar discs

An elegantly novel disc for Blades in the Dark.

Here's a tip: The usual crunch can easily be replaced with a granular trade-based target number. Might reconsider once I'm fully awake.

I keep thinking about a player-driven game that's like classic Halo (and mechanically similar to World of Darkness)!

A tip: Your usual narrative control mechanic can just be replaced with a customisable binary attack disc.

How about an offbeat chivalric game powered by a single tree?

I'm sorry to tell you that if your game has a navigation system AND a set of thingies AND a set of discs, it might be unplayable.

For an imaginative (and playful) game session: "Conversation list". (Playtest this)

Here's today's idea for a fictitious game: Every time a player engages with a thief they note down another friend.

I use lists to track energy, especially in games that don't have setting information

A coherent game of Nordic LARP involves ice fishing (was in vogue ages ago).

What if you were adding a Warhammer-style traditional peace brokering ruleset to an unusual narrative-based crit system. Works for Space Age games

Even if you're running a fluffy conspiracy game, you should consider using a fiction-first sailing module!

I'm sorry to tell you that if your game has a GM AND montages AND dice rolls, it might be unplayable (saw someone suggest this)

A game about alchemy in a realistic architecture world, kind of reminiscent of 1984.

How about a fictitious cyberpunk-survivalism game powered by a single feature?

Approach to classical sellswords game!

People are calling my new escaping the underworld game "like Malthusianism meets LARPing".

I use meters to track movement, especially in games that don't have scene framing!

A tip: Your usual social graph can just be replaced with a front-loaded gear poker chip

An initiative roll for Swords & Wizardry

And now, today's idea for a silly game: Every time a player engages with a rogue they note down another injury.

And now, something that might work: A free-form tree-based game (might need some tweaking).

Here's an idea I'm working on ➡️ A retroclone game with a novel interaction-based downtime method

Not every game has a lava diving play procedure, or riddles. But you probably want at least one of them in a game with a lot of base-building!

Here's an idea I'm working on. A politics game inspired by (a) LARPing and (b) World of Darkness

It might not seem as important as the ruleset, but in my experience having at least one beginner-friendly safety tool is crucial for a novel game

Meticulous compassion domino

Fun fact (not actually fact): 'Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine' was originally going to use fiction tiddlywinks. Maybe you could recreate that approach with a ghost hunting procedure

Infamously, D&D was intended to have complex failure rules. Maybe you could recreate them with a system-neutral health list.

If you're starting a game in a new system and have players coming from popular robust games like Tunnels & Trolls or Mork Borg, try using magic features to help them get over the rules hump

A tip: Your usual bestiary can just be replaced with a semi-random speculative repeatedly pregenerated roster – inspired by Cairn

Make a game inspired by cosmetic surgery, maybe in the western genre. (I'm imagining that it involves zine-sized counters)

Reviewers are calling my new art game "like Dracula's castle meets Agatha Christie", possibly because of the political manoeuvring dance.

Even if you're running an offbeat underworld/survivalism game, you should consider using a dense endurance-based status effect method!

A creative game of Encounter Critical involves stealth and getting a lecture from the GM about storytelling!

Making a paranormal/religious escaping the underworld minigame powered by a single house rule.

If you're starting a game in a new system and have players coming from popular hilariously foundational games like Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay or (the) GLOG, try using handouts to help them get over the rules hump.

Fun fact (not actually fact): 'Wallace Wunkle's Tragedy Factory' was originally going to have a dedicated ranged combat subsystem. Maybe you could add it back in with a stress tally

Making a neo-dystopian gunslinging minigame hinging on a new SP list. It's a classic for a reason