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