The Death Cookie

1. Number Crunching
(Columns/QAGS Corner)

... hard still has a 30% chance (6 or less) of succeeding. The best he can hope for is a success on the low end of ok (6). A character with a Body of 11 trying to whack a zombie with a baseball bat has ...

2. Archetype of the Week: The Noble Savage
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

... way, often by evoking animals or natural phenomena. The Numbers Because noble savage typically live much harder lives than other characters, they tend to have above-average Body Numbers. Brain and ...

3. Archetype of the Week: The Warrior
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

... Sense, Giant, Gun-Fu, Hard to Kill, Lightning Reflexes, Mighty Thews, Nerves of Steel, Nine Lives, Tough a Nails, Reputation, Square-Jawed Man of Action, Super Soldier, Super Strength Suggested Weaknesses: ...

4. A Six Pack of Stagger Lee
(Features/Gaming Articles)

... has great potential as a character in a role-playing game, but because of the huge number of variations, it's hard to pin down a single Stagger Lee. Therefore, in the interest of presenting the most ...

5. Archetype of the Week: The Rookie
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

... their free time either on the job or doing job-related extracurricular activities, such as continuing education classes or workout routines. The slackers (and the hard workers, when they take a break) ...

6. The Rules: Robin Hood
(Features/Gaming Articles)

... Richard Armitage, Joe Armstrong, Jonas Armstrong, Nick Brimble, John Cleese, Sean Connery, Johnny Depp, John Derek, Alan Doyle, Archie Duncan, Erica Durance, Cary Elwes, Douglas Fairbanks, Errol Flynn, ...

7. Archetype of the Week: The Trickster
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

... Jason Lee, Richard Jenkins, Rinko Kikuchi, Cheech Marin, Steve Martin, Bill Murray, Tim Blake Nelson, Paul Newman, Brad Pitt, Amy Pohler, Kevin Pollack, John C. Reilly, Tim Robbins, Christina Ricci, ...

8. Archetype of the Week: The Fool
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

... Gimmicks: Absurdity Magnet, Almost Famous, Bag of Tricks, Charmed Life, Dumb Luck, Everybody's Buddy, Hard To Kill, Idiot Savant, Ignorance Is Bliss, Innocent, Lucky, Wealthy, Weird Luck Suggested ...

9. The Rules: Sword & Sorcery
(Features/Gaming Articles)

... the first weekend of May. On other occasions, we'd tried to pin down why it's so hard to run RPGs that have the same "feel" as the old Sword & Sorcery books, and even came up with a few vague theories. ...

10. Archetype of the Week: The Spook
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

... Cool Toys, Danger Sense, Hard Boiled, Has Dirt On Everybody, Has Seen It All Before, Hide In Plain Sight, Man of 1,000 Faces, Nerves of Steel, Privileged Information, Support Network,  Suggested Weaknesses: ...

11. Archetype of the Week: The Mentor
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

...  Linda Carter, Jackie Chan, Sean Connery, Dame Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, James Garner, Ron Glass, Pam Grier, Sir Alec Guinness, Gene Hackman, Anthony Stewart Head, Richard ...

12. Interview with Broken Toy's Letia Clouston
(Features/Interviews)

... lot of hours of hard work. SJ: What kind of crew does it take to put together an episode? Do you have a bunch of people helping out, or is it a handful of people pulling double and triple duty? LC: ...

13. Fratboy of the Week: The Party Animal
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

... Sheen, Vince Vaughn Frat Nickname: Animal Musical Tastes: Hard rock, maybe with some heavy metal and soul mixed in. Drug of Choice: Beer. Prized Possession: Hip flask. Transportation: An old ...

14. The Crusader
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

... warrior with a strong, direct, manly name, often one that hints at his prowess. Holy warriors may take on the names or prophets and martyrs or use names that evoke religious imagery or symbols. In hard-boiled, ...

15. The Rake
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

... Pressley, Christina Ricci, Richard Roundtree, William Shatner, Charlie Sheen, Vince Vaughn, Skeet Ulrich, Mae West Tag Line: "There's something I'd like you to get off your chest."--James Bond, Diamonds ...

16. The Squint
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

... and hard science fiction. Wizards, alchemists, and sages could play a squint-like role in fantasy or historical games, but their methods would likely be very different from those used by modern scientists.  ...

17. The Everyman
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

... Sense, Die Hard, Duct Tape & Chicken Wire, Fearless, Friends In Low Places, Hard to Kill, Hears Things, Hide In Plain Sight, Iron Will, Ladies' Man, Knows A Guy, Mr. Fix-It, Notices Everything, Prepared ...

18. The Grizzled Veteran
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

... Soldier, Space Marine, Smuggler, Warden, Whore    Suggested Gimmicks: Age and Cunning, Citizen of the World, Friends in High Places, Friends in Low Places, Hard Boiled, I've Seen Worse, Lifetime of Experience, ...

19. WB101 Part 5: The Big Picture
(Columns/World Building 101)

... planet has two moons. The extra moon will need to be accounted for when I start working on mythologies and religions, which will make it harder for me to get lazy and just file the serial numbers off of ...

20. The Hot Shot
(Columns/Archetype of the Week)

... Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (Don Ready) L.A. Confidential (Johnny Vincenness) Men In Black (Agent J) Star Wars (Han Solo) Top Gun (Maverick) Very Bad Things (Robert Boyd) Music "Danger Zone," Kenny Loggins ...