Proposals: a deadline and ongoing
Hi, this is a message for all of you who are thinking about sending me a proposal for writing an adventure for Newsies & Bootblacks. I have news for you. Deadline: Please send your proposals for the Newsies Strike based adventure by or before the 5th of July. Ongoing proposals. For other proposals (not linked to the Newsies Strike adventure) you can send them at any time until further notice. Always quote me a price. Of course, adventures already scheduled for Book II are prefered, but I’m open to bright imagination, originality and...
Read MoreTwo new pages
Just a short note to announce that the blog has two new pages: Guidelines, containing the Style Guide and any future set of quality standards, and The New Paris Banner, showing a mini-blog with inspirations, notes, images of the Edwardian and Victorian times and bits of role-playing Enjoy them!
Read MoreNewsies and Bootblacks Style Guide
So Newsies & Bootblacks has a style guide, created by my editor Davina Haisell, to ensure consistency through-out the rules, core books and supplements. She was kind enough to offer it to me as a free extra, to ensure that the new books and supplements will not repeat the same mistake. To me, this is one of those details that mark the true professional. By the way, I will be publishing it on this blog for the benefit of those wanting to help with my game and to inspire other game designers with their own projects.
Read MoreWrite me an adventure
So I am looking for a freelance writer to help me with one of the Adventures programmed to be included in Newsies & Bootblacks: The Newsboy Strike. And I’m paying, perhaps not as you deserve, but I am paying. That other strike There is no way around, this historic event was the one in which Newsies, the Disney movie was based on. The last thing I want is a re-telling of that film. A Game Master playing with their friends can, of course, play the game as they want, but I cannot and will not publish anything that can be thought as a copyright infringement. It’s against the...
Read MoreA minimalist game is not merely a small game
Seth on his blog has just posted a mini-post titled “A car is not merely a faster horse”. He, of course, has a point, and one that has made think backwards: “A horse is not merely a slower car”. A horse retains an elegance and an intimancy with nature that makes it remarkable. I need not to be nice to my citroën, nor I can whisper to its ears. I believe that a minimalist game is not merely — nor primarly — a small role-playing game. Instead is a way to focus on fun and imagination. Rules that are here to help you, not to constrain you; a setting that...
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