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Honest question. My game is heavy on crunch, and I've written rules (intended to be at least semi-competitive) in 'rules-ese' so that the rules are explicit, but not necessarily easily played without being taught the game. I think this is pretty common of a lot of hobby games of course, but I'm editing it to be better about that. Can I include supplementals, such as character sheets or examples-of-play, in excess of the rules if they are purely supplemental? Edit: Thank you! ZorajitZorajit fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Apr 20, 2014 |
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Evil Mastermind posted:this month's challenge is to design a complete readable RPG that fits, in its entirety, onto one side of one sheet of paper.
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Is there a limit for how many of these things we can enter? assuming it's just 1 per edit: well even if it is I'm going to post this anyway! It's a modification of a very barebones system I ran a oneshot with once. Mostly diceless. I wrote it after a summer helping my mom teach Bosnian refugees English. They had some really rough stories. It's called "You are young children in a heartless place" and it is about as happy as it sounds. here it is! here is a screen friendly version! If you can only enter 1 thing I def enter Hell Vice instead, but I thought why not put this here. It's bare and unfinished, but I don't really have the stomach to fill in more. LordVonEarlDuke fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Apr 21, 2014 |
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Apr 20, 2014 08:50
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LordVonEarlDuke posted:It's a modification of a very barebones system I ran a oneshot with once. Mostly diceless. I wrote it after a summer helping my mom teach Bosnian refugees English. They had some really rough stories. This one gets my vote.
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LordVonEarlDuke posted:Is there a limit for how many of these things we can enter? assuming it's just 1 per quote:It's called "You are young children in a heartless place" and it is about as happy as it sounds.  Holy poo poo, man...
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Apr 21, 2014 17:39
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LordVonEarlDuke posted:It's called "You are young children in a heartless place" I have never had a tabletop RPG ruleset make me feel like crying before, jesus.
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Apr 21, 2014 18:19
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You are colonists on an alien planet. The end is coming. Drowns the Sky Drowns the Sky pocketmod
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LordVonEarlDuke posted:Is there a limit for how many of these things we can enter? assuming it's just 1 per I didn't expect anyone to top the hotline miami inspired game but that's not a bad thing.
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LordVonEarlDuke posted:Is there a limit for how many of these things we can enter? assuming it's just 1 per Jesus Christ you're like an amazing minimalist gaming machine.
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o jeez thanks guys Now I'm torn about which one I want to enter... I'm still leaning Hell Vice because it is a lot of fun to play and Heartless Place is Not. I haven't played it with people irl, only online, and even then it was pretty brutal. I'm having oodles of fun with this so I'm making another called MODEM JOCKEYS, about being a fearless Cracker in the glorious beige-and-punchcard future of 2013
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My non-Goon housemate TeaCrusader wanted to submit something for the contest, so I hope this is eligible and doesn't count as account sharing otherwise. I would have just posted it, but I don't want to take credit for something that isn't mine. This is Lost Skies, a game about a recently deceased person becoming a ghost and having to resist infernal energies called the 'Rhapsody' to avoid becoming a demon. Your stats and the dice you have access to are related to the person you were in life. Volcano Style fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Apr 26, 2014 |
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Volcano Style posted:My non-Goon housemate TeaCrusader wanted to submit something for the contest, so I hope this is eligible and doesn't count as account sharing otherwise. I would have just posted it, but I don't want to take credit for something that isn't mine. quote:This is Lost Skies, a game about a recently deceased person becoming a ghost and having to resist infernal energies called the 'Rhapsody' to avoid becoming a demon. Your stats and the dice you have access to are related to the person you were in life.
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Okay, we're coming up on the end of the month, so here's a rundown of all the entries. Please make sure I'm linking the correct versions. Talkc or TheDemon, which of you two wrote ICYC? Because you both linked it with updates. LordEarlVonDuke, which game are you entering? HELL VICE MERCILESS or You are young children. Either Talkc or TheDemon, I'm not sure which: I CHOOSE YOU CTHULHU! Mr. Prokosch: FLIC-GUM Nissir: Who are you The Skeep: MACHEWARRIOR Covok: Save the Date lord_daeloth: We Are All Starstuff Paolomania: Some One-Page Heartbreaker frankenfreak: PlayGods Something Else: You and Your Dumb Friends Boob Marley: Mikey's Friday Night A.D.D. Dragonlance Adventure Spekhogger: Wizard Community College LordVonEarlDuke: HELL VICE MERCILESS LordVonEarlDuke: You are young children in a heartless place AaronMFK: Combat Poets UnCO3: Drowns the Sky TeaCrusader via Volcano Style: Lost Skies
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Evil Mastermind posted:Do you have a version of this that doesn't have the "sheet" filled in?
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Evil Mastermind posted:Okay, we're coming up on the end of the month, so here's a rundown of all the entries. Please make sure I'm linking the correct versions. I wrote it, he just edited it for extra rpg goodness. EDIT: I think the intention was to consider it a single entry that we co-wrote.
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Volcano Style posted:I did ask if he wanted to submit one as well as the filled in one. He said he'd rather submit this one only as a) an example and b) an anti-plagiarism thing in case he makes something bigger of it later. If you want the blank one to judge it on, I'll ask him to upload it. Talkc posted:I wrote it, he just edited it for extra rpg goodness.
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Evil Mastermind posted:LordEarlVonDuke, which game are you entering? HELL VICE MERCILESS or You are young children.
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Conebonwah nerds. I don't know why you insist on roleplaying all these weak losers that Goku could totally beat up. In my game you can make strong deep characters who listen to real music like Linkin Park. This isn't even my Final Form Pocket Mod Screen Readable Original Script (Honestly having some trouble formatting this as a pdf.) BashfulBanana fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Apr 29, 2014 |
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Apr 29, 2014 19:56
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Evil Mastermind posted:If you want to PM it to me that's fine; I won't share it or anything, it's just if I want to playtest it it'd be easier that way Make it Talkc's entry so I can pretend I'm not responsible for any criticism we receive. And also to simplify points of contact or whatever.
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BashfulBanana posted:Conebonwah nerds. I don't know why you insist on roleplaying all these weak losers that Goku could totally beat up. In my game you can make strong deep characters who listen to real music like Linkin Park. Holy poo poo this looks fun.
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Twice as Bright (Dropbox .docx, Kludged together PDF on Drive)  "The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long." – Dr. Eldon Tyrell Twice as Bright is a diceless roleplaying game designed for 3 or more players that touches on the themes of finding yourself with dwindling resources and facing the inevitability of irreparable failure, and examines the choices characters make when faced with these facts. A player's character sheet is also the physical manifestation of their character outside the game world; as a character expends resources, they get to rip and tear it up and crumple it into a ball to throw it into the recycling bin as they play. There is no specified setting for play in Twice as Bright, although its inherent themes make it a good choice for games such as:
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BashfulBanana posted:Conebonwah nerds. I don't know why you insist on roleplaying all these weak losers that Goku could totally beat up. In my game you can make strong deep characters who listen to real music like Linkin Park. YES! When this contest started I really wanted to do a ridiculous anime game like this. I couldn't come up with a good balanced way to do powers and it ended up far too complicated (though it did have a sort of secondary hp total that I called the Shame Track, for when someone got in a sick burn or you did something shameful) and I scrapped it. So glad you did this. Probably a silly question, but would you mind someone running a game of this on the forums?
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lord_daeloth posted:YES! When this contest started I really wanted to do a ridiculous anime game like this. I couldn't come up with a good balanced way to do powers and it ended up far too complicated (though it did have a sort of secondary hp total that I called the Shame Track, for when someone got in a sick burn or you did something shameful) and I scrapped it. So glad you did this. Probably a silly question, but would you mind someone running a game of this on the forums? Thanks a ton! Sorry yours didn't turn out well though. I'm just disappointed I didn't manage to do nice illustrations for it in time. I think it would be awesome if someone ran it, feel free. It's had very little playtesting so some things might be a bit wonky still. BashfulBanana fucked around with this message at 05:45 on May 1, 2014 |
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It's now May 1st, so submissions are closed. A huge thanks to everyone who entered; I'll admit I was a bit worried at first because it didn't look like there were going to be a lot of entries, but people really stepped up and we have some amazing games here. Of course, now I have to playtest them. I'll be hopping into IRC over the next few days to try and get some games going; hopefully it won't take too long for me to run through everything. Again, thanks to everyone who entered!
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Thanks for hosting the contest, it was a great way to burn two hours at work 
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This is late, lovely, and unfinished. But this was planned to be my entry before things went tits up: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwyN1HQXO_iqWFdTVVNVN2kzS2pDNDBWRGplZFV3ZWMzOU04/edit?usp=sharing
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So.....who won?
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I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN ABOUT THIS. I have also not done any playtesting yet because I am terrible and got distracted by starting another project and finally getting the Feng Shui 2 playtest docs.  I'll try to get some stuff going this weekend.
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Lordvonearlduke posted:  I think you broke my antidepressants. This should be required for anyone working with at risk kids.
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Moto42 posted:I think you broke my antidepressants. This should be required for anyone working with at risk kids.
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Are all the games going to be given feedback even if they don't win? I'd be curious to see your thoughts on what's been posted rather than just knowing who won.
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Yes, I'll provide at least some feedback on everything. Unfortunately I don't think I'm going to have time to do playtests at this rate. Unless people want to volunteer for that...
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May 28, 2014 21:26
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I would volunteer! I know how hard it is to test it yourself, so if we can scrounge up a few more players, I'd be willing to run/participate in PbPs and test 'em.
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I will be attempting to playtest Drowns the Skies at the first chance I get in the next two weeks. Unfortunately one third of my playerbase are marrying one another this Saturday, so I cannot be certain as to when. An actual play and trip report will likely be recorded.
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I am amidst wedding planning with wedding and vacation to follow. If judging is still underway around mid-june I'll try to chip in.
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I was actually able to play my submission recently, which if not very useful here was enlightening. A friend GMed, and the table really got the vibe I was going for with it, which kind of spiraled into a Harry Potter meets Superjail thing. All in all, any night spent in discussion of the Luchador Dimension is a fun night.
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Spekhogger posted:I was actually able to play my submission recently, which if not very useful here was enlightening. A friend GMed, and the table really got the vibe I was going for with it, which kind of spiraled into a Harry Potter meets Superjail thing. Well, since you've resurrected this thread, I've done a little bit myself. I can't exactly play anything by myself, but I can make character sheets! MACHEWARRIOR PROS: Coming up with piece names is a lot of fun. There's a lot of variability and customizability available. For example, I made mechs that were weapons-based, movement-based, health-based, etc. The weapon effectiveness thing is intriguing, although I'm concerned re:putting an Ace as your chassis piece. Does it only work once, then? If you get hit in the chassis again, do you die? CONS: I think it's a little too open-ended. I think the parts on your ship should have more crunch, as should gameplay and combat resolution. There should probably be more required pieces on a mech, too. One of my mechs has a chassis and three weapons. All well and good, but if, say, the aliens took to the air, that mech would be worthless. Lost Skies PROS: A lot of it is super-inspired. I love the soul cores and their names. They definitely guide me towards roleplaying and character design. I think the Spirit system is really cool, as is the HP arch and the key memory dealy. Once I started making characters, I made more and more and more 'cause it's so much fun! CONS: Why are both Soul abilities and Rhapsody abilities called "Talents?" It's kind of confusing. One should be, say, "Gifts," or "Approaches" or something like that. (Also, this may just be because combat is more common than social behavior, but I found coming up with Gifts really hard.) I think what the demons/Rhapsodies are should be a little more clear. The pictures on the outside seem to suggest something like a Persona or a ghostly Other, but that doesn't always seem to match with how the system plays. Lastly, I fear that the system might be super-easy to game. (See: X, the Demon Cultist.) Giving people the freedom to choose their Gifts and Talents means they may choose things that are very vague and easy to activate all the time. If I get the time, I may doodle around some more with the other ones. Save the Date looks interesting, as do Twice as Bright and Drowns the Skies. Actually, I've got some comments for that last one (I'm afraid people will mostly focus on preparing and almost certainly never experience), but I'll need to playtest it before I'm sure.
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I AM SORRY I HAVE NOT FINISHED THIS YET Okay...end of this week, I promise.
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It's fine! I've not been able to test anything myself, since our group's already deep in a campaign, and to play WCC was a really spontaneous thing. Either way the contest has been cool, just to see some neat, small RPGs and all the ideas they brought to the table.
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Don't beat yourself up too much about being late. It was a fun contest and, besides, I already know I lost anyway.
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