Ruins & Rogues

Devlog

• v2025_playtest
  November 22, 2024 by Tim B.

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  So this took a while. The hard part was just coming up with all the items PCs can start with now. I wasn't happy with the lack of item variety in previous verisons so I decided to really commit to exp... Continue reading

  
• v2024_2: Combat Patch
  February 19, 2024 by Tim B.

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  The image above highlights all the rules changes from v2024. The biggest change is that PC HP is now a lot lower (by 4!) and the lives system has been replaced with a secondary pool of HP called Healt... Continue reading

  
• Ruins & Rogues vs. Maze Rats
  February 04, 2024 by Tim B.

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  So after years of trying to design my perfect game, I finally have it in my hands... And what do you know, it turns out it's very similar to Maze Rats. Hell, its name is even made up of synonyms for "... Continue reading
• v2024: Acknowledgements
  January 16, 2024 by Tim B.

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  Ruins & Rogues draws from the works of the following individuals: Jason Tocci (Pretendo Games), Ben Milton (Questing Beast), Chris McDowall (Bastionland Press), Marcia B. (Traverse Fantasy), Kelsey Di... Continue reading

  
• 1.4.1: Ancestry, Origin, Motivation
  November 16, 2023 by Tim B.

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  The Physique, Personality, Flaw table made it too slow to get the game started and ended up being dead weight in play anyway. This ought to be more useful... Continue reading

  
• v1.4: Milton Dice!
  November 13, 2023 by Tim B.

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  Forget the weird 0,1,2 dice of 1.3 and embrace the chaos with Milton Dice ! The game now only uses generic d6s which makes me very happy. Boss monsters also only take damage from the single best attac... Continue reading

  
• 1.3 Update
  November 01, 2023 by Tim B.

  Not quite sure what to say but ditching the Tunnel Goons "roll to see who hits who" and adding weird d3s is definitely a big change. I guess I was frustrated with the weird odds of the old system and... Continue reading

  
• 1.2: A back page!
  September 15, 2023 by Tim B.

  A back page is here with lots of additional rules! I almost decided to add an Example of Play instead but I went for the extra rules after all. The Consequences table is a lightly edited version of th... Continue reading

  
• 1.1.4
  September 08, 2023 by Tim B.

  I lowered PCs' max Health from 8 to 6, specified that boss monsters deal more damage, and replaced the old treasure-based XP system with something more open-ended... Continue reading

  
• 1.1.3 Update
  August 31, 2023 by Tim B.

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  I ditched the "take the difference" combat of traditional Tunnel Goons in favor of a system where if you beat the target number, you deal 2 damage, and if you don't, you take 2 damage. Circumstances m... Continue reading

  
• 1.1 Update
  August 25, 2023 by Tim B.

  Changelog: Made various things clearer. Buffed the Scholar kit (two spell scrolls instead of one). Removed Critical Damage in favor of a death timer at 0 Health. Changed the way recovering Health work... Continue reading