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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Traditional Games > April Game Design Contest: One-Page RPGs help the environment!
 
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Paolomania
Apr 26, 2006

 For my submission, I have distilled my generic heartbreaker down to a one-page document. This was a fun and challenging exercise in economy of writing and design and how to capture those elements which I felt were most essential to the style of gameplay I am going for. Anyways, I present to you ...

Some One-Page Heartbreaker

e: fixed a numbering typo, reordered a step, reduced some text to fit in a few words about end of arc
e: added Bad Effect to things GM can do per-round
e: added in subtitle and author
e: fixed numbering in Get Started section
e: reduced goal stress following pbp testing

Paolomania fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Apr 14, 2014

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Paolomania
Apr 26, 2006

 Yeah there are definitely details I just couldn't shoe-horn in. Any sort of advice or example like "mounts and vehicles are just Areas that move" was right out.

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Paolomania
Apr 26, 2006

 For those of us not going with the pocket-mod, what is a good unshrunk font size limit? I'm currently at 10 point which is reasonably readable, but even shrinking a few sections down to 8 point would allow for a bunch of extra content due to the savings on both line height and characters per line.

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Paolomania
Apr 26, 2006

 The first rule of You and Your Dumb Friends is you do not talk about You and Your Dumb Friends.

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Paolomania
Apr 26, 2006

 Putting up my Google Doc since I keep making edits (current PDF still linked above). I'm also playing around with a draft that has 8-point font sections to see if it adds anything of value.

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Paolomania
Apr 26, 2006

 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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Paolomania
Apr 26, 2006

 Thanks for effort, even if its belated. Reviewing all these seems like a big workload.

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SOME ONE-PAGE HEARTBREAKER
... The dramatic resolution setup where you have to get 20 “goal points” to win is cool, but the “Antagonists/Big Bad” scene types seem to only be completable by people who are specialized in Fighting, unless I’m missing something...
If you continue on to Step 3 of "Fight Someone" the option to "Take A Risk" can yield a "Good Effect" which the player may choose to be 1d6 stress to an antagonist or scene goal (aka Big Bad).

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Paolomania
Apr 26, 2006

 PM sent! Thank you for electing SOPH as a winner, I didn't expect a generic system to stand against such thematic and evocative competition! For anyone that is interested in the scene driven mechanics, development continues on the full system (Some Heartbreaker) and I post my notes to this thread.

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