SAWBONES
Sometimes you need more than a little adhesive bandage and a kiss from your mama to make your boo-boos better. Actually, pretty damn often, in this line of work. This guy may not have a fancy med school degree (and he probably doesn’t), but he does handles a bone saw better than your mama (probably). He can keep you alive when you oughtta ( Read more... )

Here's the latest three classes from MADCorp: the Hustler, Stringman, and Arko.

Don't mind the formatting quirks; I blame LiveJournal.
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I’m working on a thing that grabbed me by my throat and demanded that I work on it (I get that a lot. It’s becoming a problem). It’s a System design, independent of Setting, which is something I thought I’d never ever do, but I’m doing it, and I’ve already got two Settings in mind to apply it to (in case you’re wondering, one is the Dread Age of ( Read more... )

TRIPPER

You think you experimented in college? This guy opened the doors of perception, and then the windows of perception, and finally tore up the floorboards of perception and went abseiling through. He came back, sorta, with the knowledge of how to achieve superhuman and supernatural states through the use of hard drugs. Yes, kids, drugs are the ( Read more... )

* Take the historical Golden Age of Sail and twist it. The world has fallen under a Taint, and it slowly changes it for the stranger.

INFLUENCES: Burning Wheel, Poison’d, The Shadow of Yesterday, Lady Blackbird

LIFEPATHS?
This game needs BW lifepaths but simplified.

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I designed a game in my sleep last night. In the dream, it was called "Jack Roberts' Dark Age of Sail," but that's nonsense when you wake up because it sounds like it was created by a guy named Jack Roberts, so I'm calling it "The Dread Age of Sail ( Read more... )

The Reader, Root Doctor, and Yegg are now up. The Reader is a psychic with psychic powers. The Root Doctor is a mash-up of folk magic stuff. The Yegg is a master thief.

I'm not happy with the Root Doctor's poppet skill. I don't really like the effect, and thus I don't really like having it in there at all. But I gotta think about audience a little, ( Read more... )

More MADCorp employee handbooks: the Changer, Helter-Skelter, and Gloomdoll.

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Okay, I said I was going to do this once a week, but I got too excited. So sue me. Now We get the Shootist, Tank, and Cooler.

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The MADCorp employee handbooks continue with the Hardcase, Junk Knight, and Maddog, three more fighty classes.

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