{"id":1367,"date":"2025-10-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reclaimthewild.net\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2025-10-23T00:24:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T04:24:23","slug":"homebrew-jam-winner-defend-the-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reclaimthewild.net\/index.php\/2025\/10\/30\/homebrew-jam-winner-defend-the-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Homebrew Jam Winner: Defend the Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

BucketGod’s entry is an ambitious one, adding in a subsystem based on the tower defense genre of video games. It builds upon some of the groundwork laid by Rebuild the Wild<\/em>, with an expansion of well-thought out mechanics that allow ordinary people to take the spotlight while the Heroes are away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are BucketGod’s thoughts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So this year was kind of rough for me, which makes me that much more bewildered and excited that I won first place!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Defend the Tower’ was very much the result of my own experiences GMing this game. My group had a great deal of fondness for the NPCs I made, but with only so many Companions to carry around – and only so much Companions can <\/em>do – there just wasn’t that much screentime to let NPCs that weren’t critical in the moment shine. (And it definitely doesn’t help that I lost some track of how many people they had with them at some points…)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, when they got to using Rebuild rules to make a little base for themselves, I tried my best to be lenient with space and time to let the process feel good, but there just wasn’t that much checking in<\/em> done. It was all clerical.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So from trying to meet those needs, was the idea that eventually became Defend the Tower formed!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t get to put in as much fluff as I had wanted, but I hope this gives some table out there that loves to pick up stray characters off the street as much as mine did some cool moments for their off-sessions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to try out this new system, go check out BucketGod’s Defend the Tower<\/a><\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BucketGod’s entry is an ambitious one, adding in a subsystem based on the tower defense genre of video games. It builds upon some of the groundwork laid by Rebuild the Wild, with an expansion of well-thought out mechanics that allow ordinary people to take the spotlight while the Heroes are away. Here are BucketGod’s thoughts: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t