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[crosspost] The Skinny on Agile Game Design: Part 3 - The Firefight! Board

In the first article I talked about how we got Agile. The second article covered how to create a basic but useful Kanban board. This article gives an overview of a Kanban board used specifically for game design. The board is the one that we actually use.

Gave Advanced Fighting Fantasy a whirl

We ran our test scenario where the heroine wakes to hear the village being attacked by goblins and orcs. The orc chieftain is kidnapping the mayor's son while his warg and warband wait outside. Here's how it went. Upon being driven awake by a commotion outside, our heroine leaps from her bed and tests her LUCK. Can she don her armor and gather her weapons before being intruded upon by those who are making the martial racket? With ease. She stands beside the window of her upstairs room and looks across the window to see a gaggle of goblins smashing about and setting torch to thatched roof. Slowly she swings the window open and takes aim. With arrow loosed she reaches for another. The arrow finds its mark and the first goblin falls to his knees. One of the goblin's companions turns to pull him from out of the street in order to preserve a sword swinger for when the archer is found. Another arrow is launched and the second goblin falls victim. Goblin heads swivel to find the s...

Advanced Fighting Fantasy Character Sheet

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I like making character sheets so when I got my hands on the new Advanced Fighting Fantasy I had to give it a go. Here it is in PDF .