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The manuscript is getting out of hand.
The manuscript is now bigger than can be posted here. I've put it on a Google Documents page, which I will share with interested parties if you're interested, just email me. -
Amber by the Cards Design Diary, Part Five: Conflict
At the end of character creation, the players will have jokers that they haven't used yet ( Read more... ) -
Amber by the Cards Design Diary, Part Four: Theme
As I've been working on this project (mostly headwork for the past couple weeks) I have slowly been coming to realize what it is that I'm making ( Read more... ) -
Amber by the Cards Design Diary, Part Three: Character Creation
Okay, I've got a first draft of the character creation section. It wouldn't really fit in a post, so I put it in its own webpage.
You can find it here:
http://www.thesmerf.com/vaxalon/AmberS1.html -
Amber by the Cards Design Diary, Part Two: First Playtest
I held a micro-playtest with my friend Brenna last night. We were trying out the conflict resolution rules ( Read more... ) -
Amber by the Cards Design Diary, Part One: Power Nineteen
The introductions have been made. I've started gathering information about what people think makes ADRP cool (because I want to preserve as much of that as possible) and what makes it suck.
My primary goal is to get rid of two things; GM fiat and the attribute auction. As far as I know, few if any people use the auction, and the 'judicial' ( Read more... ) -
A proto-game
I'm throwing this out there for you Game Designers to feed off of. I'm taking some half-formed ideas taken from other sites, combining them, rearranging them, and adding a few bits of my own. Feel free to steal it, pick bits off of it, whatever. I'm sure some of you will recognize where bits come from, but I'll mention "Universalis," "Nine ( Read more... ) -
The NSA makes something useful for Indie publishers
Check out this link:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/dod/nsa-redact.pdf
I think anyone who makes PDF's ought to give this a read. -
All this "brain damage" crap
Cheese and Rice ( Read more... ) -
The Character as Nation
Autocracies: Nimble, Oppressive ( Read more... )