So what was that I was gonna talk about?

Oh yes, the Tee Shirt RPG or Blue Buddha and the Bifrost Valkyrie.

Well you're lucky - I have a lot to say so I'm gonna talk about both. And I'm gonna talk about Touranne!

First a little context on what I'm gonna chat about. It's a pretty well established maxim of indie game design that one should not strive ( Read more... )

So before I start seriously talking about the stuff I'm working on (and this time I'll do it I swear!), I thought I'd enumerate those games which I'm currently working on but have not yet properly finished (that I can recall).

Games not listed here are those which I am officially done with even if they're currently with someone else being made ( Read more... )

Somewhere in between the strange cocktail of revision and procrastination (mostly on RPG fora and reading RPG books), I've asked myself some truly weird questions over the recent weeks. Some such as "Was "The Lord of the Rings" a retelling of the tale of Gyges' ring in the Republic" are relatively interesting and cute literary questions that I can ( Read more... )

Some thoughts here on what a session or campaign that makes use of such a system, built on such a premise might look then.

Well first I'll list the sorts of things that influenced my creation heretofore - Dr. Who and Firefly both gave me a great deal of the feel that I was going for (whether or not one could run such a campaign with my system though ( Read more... )

I provide herein a list of interesting (and less so - my imaginative capacities aren't always so incredible) "items" that our brave and beautiful Traders will fight to the death for: -

1. The kiss of someone who has never truly loved


2. The tears of an innocent condemned to die


3. The first blossom of spring


4. A smile without thought


5. Magic beans - at some point a ( Read more... )

Right, now on to how to buy and sell the dreams, desires and wishes of mankind: -

Buying

Each Player may wager wealth of any amount (limited by the lower of either their wealth or their chosen method). The highest bidder wins and must pay the difference between their bid and the second highest. Ties are settled through a second bidding round but ( Read more... )

Herein I will expand on the fluff of my previous note with the initial crunch of how to build a character. Quite what all these things mean will be expanded upon in a later note of how the mechanics work.

Your character is quite simple and has three parts:

• Methods


• Drives


• Wealth

Methods

A character's methods are just that - the various methods they ( Read more... )

Herein lie some thoughts and exposition for a small role playing system that I've been tinkering about with. None of this is by any means final and certainly not polished or even tested really - still let's get it on the internet where it will last a bit longer than a notepad in my bag...

Economics is based on scarcity - the rarer an item is, the ( Read more... )