Ygg TOC Sketch

[Christoffer Lernö]

I'm trying to design Ygg from a specification now, working myself top down from a TOC to detailed rules. Or that's the plan anyway. Here's a snapshop of my progress.


Stats

      Power - To Kick Ass
   Speed - To Move Quickly
   Toughness - To Take Pain
   Hexpower - Witchery Power
   Senses - Paying Attention
   Bravery - Daring And Other Guts
   Willpower - Resisting Lures And Temptations
   Intelligence - Figuring Out Things And Being Clever
   Leadership - Telling Others What To Do And Make Them Do It
   Beauty - Knocking People Out At A Glance
   Health - Feeling Well[/list:u]
Classes

   Name
   Powers & Skills
   Minimum Stat Requirements
   Starting Abilities
   Level of Mastery[/list:u]
Races

   Trolls
   Witchling
   Goblins
   Dwarves
   Humans[/list:u]
Wyrd

   Using Weird Points
   Converting A Die Roll Failure to Success
   Preventing Damage Due To A Roll
   Risk Breaker – Trying the Impossible
   Cannot Use Weird When:

      Karma Resolution
      Damage or Failure is Certain before Action is Taken[/list:u]
Skills & Powers

   Skills and Un-skills

      What Is A Skill
      What Is An Un-skill
      Basic Skills
      Racial Skills & Un-skills
      Languages (take as many as you like)[/list:u]
   Powers & Abilities

      Martial Skills
      Magical Powers
      Other Talents[/list:u]
   Martial Skills

      Benefits of Learning Unarmed Martial Skill
      Benefits of Learning Thrown Weapons Martial Skill
      Benefits of Learning Martial Skill of Bows and other Ranged Weapons
      Benefits of Learning Martial Skill of Close Combat Weapons[/list:u]
   Other Talents

      Pyrotechnicalchemy (Dwarven)
      Stealth
      Mechanical Locks, Traps & Other Things Of Use
      Legend Lore
      Seals, Amulets, Wards & Majik[/list:u]
   Pranja

      What Pranja Is
      Pranja Powers[/list:u]
   Magical Rune Arts

      Dwarven
      Witchling[/list:u]
   Mystic Powers

      Troll
      Witchling[/list:u]
   Goblin Talents

      Speaker of All Languages
      Immunity to Disease and Poisons[/list:u]
   The Dwarven Powers of Creation

      How To Use
      Effect[/list:u]
   Demonic Magic

      How Learn & How It Works
      Different Types: Summons, Powers & Spells
      How To Cast A Spell
      How To Summon A Being
      How To Use A Power[/list:u]
   Demonic Corruption and Change

      Gaining Taint
      Sealing off Taint

         Sacrificing Limbs
         Magical Fetters
         Sealing Runes[/list:u]
      Changes and Corruption

         When Changes Happen
         Temporary Changes[/list:u]
      Demon Form[/list:u]
   Unusual Traits

      Having A Unusual Trait[/list:u]
Character Improvment

   Gaining Experience
   Jumping Up A Level
   Increasing Stats
   Increasing Skills
   Buying New Powers & Abilities[/list:u]
Actions & Resolution

   What Is An Action?
   Opposed & Unopposed Actions
   Resolution through Fortune
   Resolution through Karma
   Advantage and Disadvantage
   Describing Success and Failure[/list:u]
Combat

   Holding back or hitting hard
   Improvising Combat Attacks
   Ordering Combat
   Hurt Others In Combat
   Everything Else In Combat
   Life and Death

      Dealing Out Damage
      Knocking People Out
      Killing Stuff[/list:u]
   Armour
   Other Ways To Hurt[/list:u]
Things of Magic

   Demonic Powers

      Overview
      List
      Improvising Powers
      Demonic Effects[/list:u]
   Demonic Tricks and Spells

      Overview
      List
      Changing Spells & Other Disasters[/list:u]
   Summonings

      Overview
      Demonic

         Elementals (Earth, Fire, Air, Water)
         Homonculi
         Demons Greater and Minor[/list:u]
      Earth Bound Spirits (Earth, Wind, Water)   
      Summoning New Demons[/list:u]
   Troll Powers

      Glamour
      Shapeshifting
      Enchantments
      True Seeing
      Divination
      Far Seeing
      Animal Speak[/list:u]
   Witchling Powers

      Shapeshifting
      Animal Speak[/list:u]
   Witchling Runes and Body Painting

      Spirit Glyphs
      Warding Glyphs
      Glyphs of Power[/list:u]
   Dwarven Runes and Tattoos

      Eye Of Power
      Skin Of Stone
      Mystic Protection[/list:u][/list:u]
Wyrd

   Places

      Danger Wyrd
      Legend Wyrd[/list:u]
   Wyrd of People and Monsters[/list:u]
Other Races & Monsters

   Hobgoblins

      Hobgoblin Powers
      Professions[/list:u]
   Ogres[/list:u]
      Ogre Powers
      Appearance

         Animal-like
         Human-like
         Witchling-like[/list:u]
      Creating An Ogre[/list:u]
   Dragons & Wyrms

      How Dragons Grow Up[/list:u]
   The Dark

      Zombies
      Ghouls
      Other Bad Things In The Night
      The Source Of The Dark
      Darkling Artifacts[/list:u][/list:u]
Rare Monsters

   Triclops
   Lamia
   Lizardmen
   Tecalpocs[/list:u]
Goddesses & Gods[/color]

[ThreeGee]

It is hard to judge a game based on the table of contents, but I would say you have an ambitious game plan. The organization seems clear and the sections headings evocative.

I know from looking at your website that you have already put some work into this game, and I definitely like the flavor. No generic, wishy-washy settings here. It reminds me of some older fantasy games, but hopefully without the weird mechanics.

I look forward to further developments.

/Grant

[Matt Machell]

Something that occurs is you're going for a lot of the what, rather than the how in that TOC. As long as this is just for personal reference, then it's not a problem, but if you were to base a book off it, it would be less useful.

-Matt

[Christoffer Lernö]

Yeah Matt, maybe I should have made it more clearly that these headings are for the game development purposes and not for actual use in the book. They're supposed to describe what things are about so that I remember what I already decided on :)