The notes may be a bit disjointed and terse, but I'm writing on my lunch break, trying to get a few things down. More later.

The new idea is Television Heroes. Characters are television and movie character stereotypes from any range of shows-- the cop on a mission, the sitcom dad, the infomercial huckster, the cartoon rodent, the embattled reporter ( Read more... )

So get this...

My big tree in the backyard that hangs over where I park my car...

Gone. Sawed off.

Someone stole my tree!

Nicole had been talking with tree removal people, but hadn't gotten to the point of actually scheduling the appointment... well, it would appear that they took things into their own hands. I came home and noticed the clear blue sky ( Read more... )

Link: Character Sheet

• Player, Character: Name of the player and character.
• Concept: Basic character concept
• Personality: Three-element description of your character. Select each personality element, and mark the primary driver to your character's personality.
• Consideration: ACTion or CONtemplation
  
• Vision: OVeRview or DETail

The more I work on it, the more I'm getting geeked to actually play Glass and Steel. I might just have to cobble something together on a d10/pool system and go for it for the immediate time.

I've been thinking of a central merits/flaws sort of system called Coinsas in "there's two sides to every coin". It consists of opposing ( Read more... )

Well, there seems to have been a flurry of interest... or at least a consistent background of interest that I just finally tapped into... Or... well... there's interest, okay-- in the Glass and Steel RPG system. For those of you who don't know and don't care enough to backtrack, here's the idea as it stood:

Every PC* snaps to awakeness in the late- ( Read more... )

I'm calling Questy Quest! pretty much a failed experiment. It makes an interesting exercise, and stands well for the first 30-45 minutes, but today's playtest shows that it falls apart when given any decent length of play. I'm pretty well scrapping the idea. A few of the core concepts that made the system what it is were, to my mind, fatally flawed ( Read more... )

Questy Quest! ("P.T. 1" edition)

If anyone has any feedback, finds anything unclear, or actually playtests it and has some notes, I'm looking for all I can get. I've played it with a group of four, which I would call about the minimum number, and I'd like to see how it works with larger groups, especially considering the round-robin turn order.

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Well, they're right when they say "playtesting is key". Sure, it was the first time I'd ever tried a system that I'd made, mechanics and all, but the "mechanics" were so simple that... what could go wrong?

The ( Read more... )

After putting some time into refining some other games, I was bumbling around the Forge, hitting some links, looking at some other ideas, and I came up with what I think could be quite a fun one-session, indoor-friendly LARP situation, somewhat akin to the "murder mystery dinner".

The scene is a war planning room: everyone in the room are high- ( Read more... )

It was a really good day today for yard sales-- a lot of people were taking advantage of the three-day weekend to stay open late, and a got a fair amount of "desperation and fatigue" deals, I think, given that I made some of the best hits after noon. Not much bargaining-down going on this time around, but that was mostly because people were giving ( Read more... )