The Crossblog

Welcome back to The Crossblog! Sorry for the delay but, there has been a  few pretty drastic changes that are happening with Crossroads: The Yzyrra Chronicles. All of them are things that will make the game more exciting to play over the long haul. I will go into a couple of them in the next Crossblog. I've conducted several sessions of the playtest but due to life events, holidays, and such, I had to put the Third Act of the playtest on indefinite hiatus. I will be working to arrange another, more than likely to be played using Roll20 augmented with Discord. I also have a face-to-face playtest on the horizon with some really good friends I've played all kinds of games with over the span of 20+ years. I just wanted to keep those reading this aware of the state of things. Without further adieu, we move forward... Last time we took a look at the concept of Heat and how it works, allowing enhanced performance at the cost of increased stress. We also looked at how when a chara...

Welcome back! Last time we discussed some of the core mechanics and unique ideas driving Crossroads: The Yzyrra Chronicles. This time we take a look at a character's turn based resources. When a new player sits at the table for their first game, and combat breaks out, the question, "What do you do?" may give some stage-fright. This post however is intended to help those players new to this game understand all of the resources that are at their disposal when the GM finally asks that question of them. ACTION POINTS (AP) When combat breaks out, the initiative order is determined. When a player's turn comes up, they have 5 AP at their disposal. Every action that the player takes has a varying AP cost. Some actions may cost 0AP while others may cost 5 AP, but they all have some sort of cost. If a question of AP Cost arises and is not already covered, the AP Cost is determined by the GM.  While this list is not all-inclusive, all actions fall under one of the...