Thanks, I appreciate it. It's a little like sharing my GM notes, so I was a little worried, but so far people like these weirdos.
gary_d_pryor
joined 2 years ago
Yes. page 23 has an example, an actual sheet is here. It's bundled with the documents from the Itch page, but maybe I should also throw it on the end of the book?
Finished a big rewrite of my rulebook. It's a goofy time-traveling action mess of a game. I've been working on and playing the game for almost 3 years now, but the rulebook is falling behind where the game is at the table. I would really appreciate it if anyone that likes reading rulebooks could check out the Google Docs version and see if there is anything obviously incoherent or typos.
The entire game is 100% free and will always be that way, I'm only interested in sharing my esoteric design.
If you see this big pile of gamma world inspired jokes and think it sounds like fun, I'm down to talk about how to run the game, or answer any questions. Thanks Y'all
Wrote a new blog today on two different topics. 1st my inability to finish a project vs my desire to start 20,000 more projects. 2nd about saying yes to players.
Making a storytelling first game, taught me to bend over backwards to say yes to my players. Really excited to take this philosophy with me into other running other games. The line behind enforcing the rules and giving players what they want can be hard to navigate in some systems, it's not even always easy in my super squishy system. I have never gotten so much narrative collaboration from players though. Letting them invent their own answers, being flexible, and rolling with player ideas.
Curious about any stories experiences with saying yes, especially to something you never thought of before they uttered it. I think collaboration is something ttrpg excel at and is underused in lots of game styles. I want to hear about it. Anybody have anything they put into their own designs to encourage collaboration?
If you order a package that passes through the hands of the USPS it gets literally thrown. If you live in an urban area the logistics are not even set up that could sort packages without throwing them. On the upside throwing microwaves is good exercise.
I feel like that game was really sold as a "shelf game" with being big and pretty and cool. I hope there is a good index at least.
Blades is incredibly slick in it's design. I think it's the best example of modern design where the mechanics and lore lean on each other. Because of the way many of the setting decisions are designed in subtle clever ways to add to the play, it makes me intimidated to run it, because I'm worried I'm going to get it wrong and weaken my game. I would have to do a lot of studying and run it a few more times before I felt I was really getting it.
Wrote a new blog today about how much setting should go in a rulebook. It's different for every game, but I feel a lot of games put too much lore in with the rules.
I know it's really hip to have your setting lean on your mechanics and vice versa, so neither works great without another, but I am more of a fan of rules that support tone and play patterns that reinforce genre more than specific settings. Probably mostly because I am not big on learning a lot about a setting before I feel good about running a game.
I also like to have lots of room to improv and make a setting my own. I know you can do that with any setting, but I just feel more confident doing that with less definition in the setting.
I could probably drop a little something more into my rulebook as a stinger to get people excited about what kind of fiction the game presents. I guess that could be interpreted as setting, or at least adjacent.
Curious about what other think about this topic.
https://infantofatocha.itch.io/chronomutants/devlog/572397/whats-a-paradox-war-anyway
Thanks.