Too Many Systems Too Many Settings Im back today to re-read my New Years resolutions. It seems Ive strayed from the path. The big two projects of the past couple months (aside from working on my dissertation implementation more than in the past) has been zilch and Caligo. zilch (which deserves a better name, but stands for "Zachs Implementation Lies Cold & Hoary") is what the domino die mechanic idea turned into. Its a sort of board-game-style dungeon crawling RPG. Its actually pretty sweet. You represent characters with 4 playing cards (one of each suit), roll d6s for skills, use dominoes for an exchange/stance-based combat, track details with poker chips, and use Scrabble tiles to track and cast magic spells. Yes, I finally have a decent Scrabble-based magic system! This time I started with the ~600 D&D spells and distilled them down to 26 schools/tiles, rather than starting with the noun/verb approach of most rune-based system. Tiles are often still combined to pr...