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I’m ridiculously happy with how “commanding” works in my game dice’s edge 😃 especially the way it weaves into making your own summoning spell. It’s not super complex but gives both the gm and the commander what happens if it works and what will happen if it fails in a way that’s really smooth.

Similarly, my game Power Creep has a really interesting mechanic for power scaling and collateral damage You can always increase your power but you can't always decrease it!

They aren't glamorous, but I'm proud of the damage rules for Tangent Space. Base Damage + Potency = Total Base Damage is a fixed value based on the attack, and applied on any hit. Potency is a multiplier of how much you beat the target number by, usually an opposed defensive reaction roll.

Maneuver qualities in Anima Prime: Resurgence. Descriptions in combat make a difference in a qualitative way. All of them are positive, in different ways. There's no judgement of good or bad narration, just how the action is being done and what the context is.

What Rotten Muck playtest: each enemy has a Grid you do combat on, multiple enemies connect their Grids together, and die rolls pick the body part you start on and how far you travel. Connected grids mean the fight is one body with several tempers. That is a proper muck mechanic.

In my #ttrpg Sonja and Conan versus the Ninjas, you play pulp one-shots with 1 PC and 2 to 5 GMs. My favorite rule concerns dialogue scenes: Barbarian (PC) must roll 2d6 1st die: the number of sentences they can speak 2nd die : the max number of words per sentence. rpgtrader.com/products/400...

Join Their Ranks (supplement for Reanimated) uses a respawn mechanic inspired by Helldivers, which encourages you to treat your zombie as cannon fodder. "I may die, but I am taking you with me!" Both the core game and the supplement are PWYW on RPG Trader. rpgtrader.com/products/105...

I'm my duet game, the time constraint. Both players agree "we've only got one hour" - and that sets the difficulty for the adventure. Separately, in Oppian Wives, characters only "leave" when the cumulative stresses of things raise the possibility. So no one issue can knock them out, it builds.

I am proud, but it's really my own audacity that is notable. I'm adapting Star Wars Zero Company into a TTRPG and decided to create a Podrace minigame: salubriousbrew.itch.io/zcom-rpg/dev...

I am pretty pleased with the attack resolution system for my vampire game; successful attack means you get to pick an effect against the target, but failure means they get to pick an effect against you. This means all something always happens, and that all attacks represent back and forth exchange.

In Tenebrous Orbit, I built the mechanic of "Ties". Your relationship to fellow PCs grows and shrinks throughout a campaign. It boosts your Assist action and interacts with a number of character Special Abilities in satisfying ways. rpgtrader.com/products/440...

We are pretty fond of critical effects or status effects when rolling the 3d8's for MM&M rpg-trader.com/creator/171/...

I'm really happy with the travel system which tries to add a little more weight to getting from point a to point b without feeling to burdensome. I feel like travel across the wilderness shouldn't be a hand wave. www.realmforging.com/travel_system/

You can play a half angel-half devil. You can be a dancing fox girl and make your enemies dance with you. There's a combat style all about farming & one for mining. And you can swap styles on the fly mid turn. **I even made a fishing minigame!** Please check out ACE. rpgtrader.com/products/859...

There's more to it than this but this is the intro from the beta. Basically I removed target numbers and integrated them directly into the dice by using an oracle for group play as well as solo play. This way combat is much faster and no more asking if something hits a hundred times a combat.

I'm very proud of a bunch of the mechanics we did in Blackpowder, Magic, and Plot but I got to say what we did with one of the Gunslinger subclasses where they can use their shots in quick succession to leap around the battlefield is very cool.

One of my first game's character creation. Name your character: ❤️ The name's length is their HP 💪 The number of consonants is their body score 🧠 The number of vowels is their social/talk score

I once believed that I had written a brilliant "Snap Shot" rule as a supplement to The Fantasy Trip, by @sjgames.com that would allow an easy transition into a science-fantasy set of rules called Rocket Patrol