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[kyubikitsune]

It's funny, listening to the Fear the Boot podcast with Eddy Webb from White Wolf publishing has really got me thinking about why I want to create my own RPG. XD See, I don't have a problem with White Wolf in particular. They do awesome stuff, in particular I think Exalted is a pretty excellent game, and I understand why they've undertaken the

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[psychosnake]

I hear you - over the years, I've found many a game system that I like... but most of the games that I actually play are home-brew systems.

So I feel qualified to give you advice.

Building your own system is alternately rewarding and frustrating as hell, especially if you want it to be a dice system. My current system is run dice-less, which has the advantage of being easy to GM, and the disadvantage of being fairly predictable. If you want it to be a dice-run system, I strongly suggest you model it closely on something else, it's just easier.

So far as writing the actual game goes, so far, both of my attempts at serious games have stemmed from character ideas, so I recommend building your ultimate, favorite, ideal uber-character. Make him or her exactly the way you want them to be, and the world should start to coalesce around them. (And save that character - they'll be a bad-ass NPC later) Write down everything you can think of; what are the countries, who rules them, how common is each race, what secret societies exist, ect.

Also, tap your resources. If you have questions, I'd be happy to give you the best answers I can; plus Ev has built her own systems, and I'm sure you know plenty of other gamers who would be happy to lend a hand.

Good luck!

[kyubikitsune]

Thank you SO much for commenting and getting through that wall o' text! XD (I'm sorry I haven't really commented much in your journal, I've been moving away from LJ a bit more and I should really come back to it.) Yeah, I remember your home-brew systems (at least a couple of them) and they sounded pretty awesome from what I could tell. X3

As far as a system goes, I finally have the possible dice mechanics of it. I really like the whole d10 thing that White Wolf does and I'd like to try to make a variation on it. From the beginning I wanted to create a magic system based on Taoist principles (mostly the yin/yang concept, I use it heavily) and the five Chinese elements. I have a book on Chinese Astrology at home that's been really influential, and when it talks about the five elements and how they interact with each other I could so see this as a magic and stat system.

Also, I really like the idea of building my ultimate, favorite uber character. I have a couple ideas in my head, and actually that was going to influence the story I wanted to write for NaNoWriMo. I thought that maybe writing a novel might help build the world, but I just got too paralyzed so I think I should build the world first. And so far I have tons of races, a good amount of countries for it, and a general idea of how the world was created. (It's a essentially a plane between Heaven and Earth that sits on top of our world.) I do need figure out a lot more though, and it's good you brought up secret societies because I hadn't thought of that.

But yeah, thank you SO much for the advice, and I'd actually really like to talk to you sometime. I haven't seen you in ages!

[psychosnake]

Well, if you're ever up in SB, give me a holler; I'm actually in SLO this weekend, but I'm already booked. Perhaps next time I'm coming up for a visit I'll give you a call and we can try to work something out.

Either way, good luck!