Just under a year ago, I decided that I had too many projects lying around that were incomplete. Most of them were ones that never generated much interest from other people when I talked about them.
Inspired by nanowrimo, I decided to set myself a challenge. I would write a new RPG in a month, and the RPG would be one from a number of choices voted on by my friends. It went well, and I even got to run it just after the month finished. It went so well, in fact, that I decided to take a month's break then write another under the same terms...
So, at this point I've got five of the things written and available for free. Now they've been released into the wild, I want more people to see them and, hopefully, comment on them so my future projects can be better.
Naturally, the extreme time pressure means there are flaws - embarrassing typos, etc. - but the main point of the exercise was to prevent me from continually going back and revising things and never declaring anything 'finished'.
If you'd like to take a look at any of 'em, they can be found here:
http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=3877324 (http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=3877324)
If you'd like a say in what I write over March, the poll is here:
http://queex.livejournal.com/174130.html (http://queex.livejournal.com/174130.html)
Oooh! This is my sort of thing. On it.
Best, Ron
Holy crap, crawling for cash is 121 pages long!? How did you take what seems a somewhat derogitory title for the actvitity, and yet plow in that much effort?
Quote from: Callan S. on February 20, 2010, 06:01:02 AM
Holy crap, crawling for cash is 121 pages long!? How did you take what seems a somewhat derogitory title for the actvitity, and yet plow in that much effort?
The subject seemed to demand crunch. Crunch takes up a lot of pages, not to mention an unreasonable amount of effort. It was a struggle, for sure.
Hey Ben,
I found 3 - Unnatural Encounters back in December, browsing Lulu for RPGs while they were having their Christmas sale. I love the way you envision the cards working. I intend to organize a playtest.
Paul
Hi Ben,
Hey, I'm really digging these. I'm particularly gonna try to play Rivers & Lakes at the next opportunity.
-Marshall
Quote from: Paul Czege on February 20, 2010, 11:45:11 AMI love the way you envision the cards working.
It seemed like a neat way to handle player knowledge. I'm not convinced I've really done the idea justice-
3 is probably the one I was least satisfied with how it turned out, despite it being the one I was most enthusiastic about initially. It probably needs some wiser heads to tease the best out of it.
Quote from: Marshall Burns on February 23, 2010, 05:28:47 PM
I'm particularly gonna try to play Rivers & Lakes at the next opportunity.
Let me know how you get on.
For anyone interested, the latest one, Warlord's Wager (http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/warlords-wager/6548576), has just gone up.