Well, being as I'm getting close to actually releasing a beta worthy game, fate decided to slap me one. In a routine search of some old hard disks, I found something I thought lost to the world. My first RPG!

I looked it over, and wow. Definately not publisher material. None the less, the masochist inside me screamed out to be heard. And so, I listened. What ever my reasoning, I don't know. Perhaps to satisfy that inner child that put so much thought into it. Maybe to say, "look everyone, I can finish something." Or, possibly to give everyone a good laugh. Despite my comments at the end of it, it did contain a lot of elements that influenced my way of RPG thinking.

So, for those of you who have absolutely nothing better to do:
http://machmoth.tripod.com/rpg
Six Shooter. Down in the archives section.

You have been warned.

Not bad, actually. Some editing and clarification, a spellcheck, and toss some assumptions, and you'd have a pretty good minimalist Simulationist game, with strong possibilities for Narrativist drift. Sort of Risus-meets-Storytellers-meets-Whimsy Cards.

I particularly like the term "die porn".

I think the first RPG I finished was SOPLARP, back in '96.

Thanks. I was really proud, back when I finished this. Now, I look back at some of the idea that I thought I invented. Mostly organic advancement, the Whimsy Cards, and goal based resolution stand out as important elements to me. They say a lot about what I was trying to accomplish, and my design style. The fact that I wrote the entire thing in Wordpad also highlights my horrid spelling and loathing fear of the apostrophe.

For the sake of nostalgia, I think I will leave it just the way it is. It's a reminder of a simpler time, and of exactly why I work on these things in the first place.

On a side note, SOPLARP isn't so bad, yourself.

MachMoth wrote: On a side note, SOPLARP isn't so bad, yourself.