The Game that would not die

About one year ago I began designing a new role-playing game. I predicted I would work on it a couple of nights, and then let it unfinished, as usual. However, bit by bit, to my own surprise I kept adding and adding material over the days, weeks and months. Until it was there, a very peculiar role-playing game on kids who sells papers: Newsies and Pickpockets.

I play-tested it, dreading the older gamer group would dread it; alas they loved it. The game was fun enough to keep them laughing for hours and longing for more.

So I did work on it a bit more, uploaded it, and let it everybody download it for free. I know my English spelling and grammar is far from perfect. I’m a Spaniard and, while an informal conversation or a small post like this one is not a big deal, a 40,000 words rules-book is quite another matter. I knew people would ignore my game and hate my grammar.

Yet after a few initial “less-than-great” reviews, I started to get people excited at this little game.

I’m publishing it

So I’m going to be Minim Role-playing, and I’ll keep working on Newsies and Pickpockets, this time in a finished, edited and polished version. I could get a new title for it, Newsies and Bootblacks, and perhaps a Spanish version; but that’s a matter for another post, as for now, with a nod to Everett Bogue

Minim Role-playing

That is a vision to have games that are:

1. Original: No need to re-invent Dungeons & Dragons.
2. Fun: because games should be about fun.
3. Family friendly.
4. Ethical
5. With as many rules as necessary, but no more
6. Uncopyrighted, so anybody can publish their own content, even for profit.
7. Easy to buy. We can mean either cheap or “just buy the modules you need”.