Newsies & Bootblacks: Grown Ups
Version 0.1 (Early Draft) Abstract I am incubating a new role-playing game, working on Newsies & Bootblacks. There is nothing set in stone now, except that my goals remain to create a role-playing game that is fun to play, neither rules-light nor crunchy and that could be used to role-play children and young-adult novels. However the heroes of young-adult novels are not always all young-adult themselves. The rules set in this article will allow N&B players to generate and play grown-ups. Dice (A reminder) Newsies & Bootblacks uses normal six-sided dice. They are made...
Read MoreSafe Havens
Version 1.0 CC -by Miguel de Luis, minimrpg.com What So, let’s say that you are in the middle of a campaign and then your player-characters have been through 23 fights, 4 chases, short-changed a dozen inn-keepers and they have just learned who’s the big bad guy and his evil plots. Or, for whatever the reason, they have bitten more than they could chew: two party members gravely injured, their best weapon locked and an evil horde have the heroes locked on their sights. That is when a safe haven could come handy. But what’s a safe haven anyway and how could we make it work...
Read MoreNewsies and Bootblacks, stripped
Hi chaps. I don’t know if there is somebody still attached to this blog but… Anyway, you may remember a little game called Newsies and Bootblacks (#rpg #steampunk #newsboys #edwardian #fantasy) that I published online about a year ago. Today, I am working towards a new version to be published on Lulu, as a print on demand. Thing is Lulu makes you pay dearly for even the smallish color illustration inside your book. So, I’ve went through the N&B manuscript on LyX and manually deleted all but two illustrations (who happened to be nice and b/w). The resulting document is much...
Read MoreGaming my novel
Hi chaps. You probably do not know it but I’m writing a fantasy young adult novel by the name of “La Montaña de Dios” (God’s Mountain). And yes, I’m using my mother tongue which happens to be Spanish. So why should you care? Because of this weird idea I’m having and that you might imitate if you are also into writing. I’ll be gaming the last few chapters of my novel. Anybody able to understand Spanish (or who would hire a translator) is welcome. The idea is that the writer (in this particular case yours truly) will send an email to brief the...
Read MoreAn interesting newspaper generation tool
I think the results speak by themselves. http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp
Read MoreEABA Verne
It feels like a merry coincidence, Greg has just released EABA Verne, a steampunkish suplement for his generic role-playing game: EABA. I am not going to compare his efforts to mine; he’s in the major league and EABA Verne shows it. Neither, I am going to claim compatibility: the very reason I decided to go ahead and make my own game was that most, if not all, generic role-playing game rules are not adequate to play heroic children. Not withstanding the rule system you love, EABA Verne offers a great setting and/or ideas that could be inserted in any steampunkish setting; and improve...
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