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Jul 30, 2014
Free Strategy Guide - and all about the Adventurer's Guild
Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon - RampantCoyote
Grab a free copy of the Strategy Guide for Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon. Also, a bit of information about the Adventurer's Guild in the world of Frayed Knights. Since the story is all about the Knights trying to gain admittance into the guild, this provides a bit of back-story.

Free Strategy Guide, and all about the Adventurer's Guild in the world of Frayed Knights
Jul 30, 2014
Free Strategy Guide - and all about the Adventurer's Guild
Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon - RampantCoyote
Grab a free copy of the Strategy Guide for Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon. Also, a bit of information about the Adventurer's Guild in the world of Frayed Knights. Since the story is all about the Knights trying to gain admittance into the guild, this provides a bit of back-story.

Free Strategy Guide, and all about the Adventurer's Guild in the world of Frayed Knights
Jul 26, 2014
Humor in Frayed Knights
Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon - RampantCoyote
Humor is a pretty subjective thing. It also has trouble crossing cultural boundaries. Making an RPG that is supposed to play out like a sitcom, with little references and subversions to classic tropes from old computer and tabletop games seems to narrow the niche down even further.

Why do something that stupid? And, lacking a good reason, how do you prevent it from just being annoying?

Read the full article here:
Frayed Knights: Humor and the Knights
Jul 26, 2014
Humor in Frayed Knights
Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon - RampantCoyote
Humor is a pretty subjective thing. It also has trouble crossing cultural boundaries. Making an RPG that is supposed to play out like a sitcom, with little references and subversions to classic tropes from old computer and tabletop games seems to narrow the niche down even further.

Why do something that stupid? And, lacking a good reason, how do you prevent it from just being annoying?

Read the full article here:
Frayed Knights: Humor and the Knights
Jul 24, 2014
The Classic CRPG Origins of Frayed Knights
Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon - RampantCoyote
It's pretty obvious that Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon was inspired by classic dungeon-crawlers of the past. What five games were the biggest influence on its development, and how?

The Origin of Frayed Knights: Classic CRPGs Edition
Jul 24, 2014
The Classic CRPG Origins of Frayed Knights
Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon - RampantCoyote
It's pretty obvious that Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon was inspired by classic dungeon-crawlers of the past. What five games were the biggest influence on its development, and how?

The Origin of Frayed Knights: Classic CRPGs Edition
Jul 23, 2014
The Dice-and-Paper Origins of Frayed Knights
Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon - RampantCoyote
The design of Frayed Knights was rooted in traditional, "old-school" CRPGs, of course. But a lot of the design decisions came from an effort to tap into old-school tabletop gaming - the kind of experience that players enjoyed back in the early 80s, when players gathered around a table with strange-shaped dice and hand-painted miniatures playing this strange new style of game...

The Origin of Frayed Knights: Dice-and-Paper Edition
Jul 23, 2014
The Dice-and-Paper Origins of Frayed Knights
Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon - RampantCoyote
The design of Frayed Knights was rooted in traditional, "old-school" CRPGs, of course. But a lot of the design decisions came from an effort to tap into old-school tabletop gaming - the kind of experience that players enjoyed back in the early 80s, when players gathered around a table with strange-shaped dice and hand-painted miniatures playing this strange new style of game...

The Origin of Frayed Knights: Dice-and-Paper Edition
Jul 22, 2014
Taking Time to Smell (or Kill) the Roses
Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon - RampantCoyote
There are a few things about Frayed Knights that are different from some other computer role-playing games. Although it may be comedy-oriented with dumb jokes and lampshading of popular fantasy RPG tropes, the underlying game can be fairly hard-core and difficult in some spots. Here's some advice on getting through the rougher spots:

Frayed Knights: Am I Just a Cruel Game Designer?
Jul 22, 2014
Taking Time to Smell (or Kill) the Roses
Frayed Knights: The Skull of S'makh-Daon - RampantCoyote
There are a few things about Frayed Knights that are different from some other computer role-playing games. Although it may be comedy-oriented with dumb jokes and lampshading of popular fantasy RPG tropes, the underlying game can be fairly hard-core and difficult in some spots. Here's some advice on getting through the rougher spots:

Frayed Knights: Am I Just a Cruel Game Designer?
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