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May 21, 2015

I Put a Spell on You

CRPG Spells One of the more important parts of any CRPG system set in a fantasy world is the magic system. As a person who primarily likes playing mage characters, poor, undeveloped magic systems are a sore point of mine. Magic systems are very important to me. While I am trying to keep the main system’s magic as neutral and...

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May 14, 2015

It’s Time For the Feats of Strength!

Feats (or abilities) have been in CRPGs for a long time. They usually come in two main types: passive or triggered. For me feats really took off in DnD 3.0. The feats system in Broken Staff CRPG is modelled after the DnD system. For those familiar with the DnD system there are a few differences: All characters get a new...

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May 7, 2015

CRPG Skills: Do You Have the Skills to Pay to the Bills?

CRPG Skills – A Tricky Element to Get Right This is the third in a series of posts where I will be outlining the Broken Staff CRPG system and giving an introduction of how it works. In a previous post I covered attributes, which if we continue the admittedly poor analogy of our CRPG system as a human body would...

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May 3, 2015

Attributes – How the Broken Staff CRPG System ‘Measures’ Stuff

This is the second in a series of posts where I will be outlining the Broken Staff CRPG system and giving an introduction of how it works. In a previous post I covered effects, which if we use a human body as an analogy would be the skeleton. They provide structure to the system. The next major element in the...

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April 28, 2015

Broken Staff CRPG v0.3 with System Browser Utility Released

Milestone alert! We launched our second release of the Broken Staff CRPG on November 11, 2014. In that version the XML was improved and upgraded substantially and we also included the first version of the System Browser utility written in C#. The System browser was created to help people who are not into coding view the data in an easy...

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April 25, 2015

Effects – The Core of the Broken Staff CRPG System

This is the first in a series of posts where I will be outlining the Broken Staff CRPG system and giving an introduction into how it works. Introducing… Effects! At the heart of the Broken Staff CRPG system are effects. You can find the effect information in two files: Effects.xml and EffectTypes.xml. Effect types are just a way of organizing...

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April 14, 2015

Broken Staff CRPG The First Alpha (v0.2) Release Is Here

It was a great day (back on June 25, 2014) here at Broken Staff Studios when we released a first alpha of the BSCRPG system. It has grown and improved a lot since then, it is interesting to see how far it has come already in this short period of time. See here for more details. If for some reason...

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April 9, 2015

Introducing a New Open Source CRPG System

What is the Broken Staff CRPG System? It is an open source computer role playing game system designed by Broken Staff Studios for a number of projects we are working on. It was mainly influenced by the following games and rpg systems: Wizardry 6/7/8 Might & Magic 4-6 Gold Box AD&D Baldur’s Gate / Icewind Dale series Dungeons and Dragons...

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Category: Broken Staff CRPG

I Put a Spell on You

It’s Time For the Feats of Strength!

CRPG Skills: Do You Have the Skills to Pay to the Bills?

Attributes – How the Broken Staff CRPG System ‘Measures’ Stuff

Broken Staff CRPG v0.3 with System Browser Utility Released

Effects – The Core of the Broken Staff CRPG System

Broken Staff CRPG The First Alpha (v0.2) Release Is Here

Introducing a New Open Source CRPG System