Gaming 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 MoreNew Project: Brave Islands of the Southern Seas
So this is the idea for the first supplement of Newsies & Bootblacks: a group of thousand islands somewhere in the southern seas of the Pacific Ocean. The archipielago’s sovereignity is disputed by seven powers: Prussia, France, The British Empire, Russia, the USA, Sweden and Japan; though none mantain more than a few outposts and a handful of gunboats and cutters. In practice it is the independent settlers and natives who run their own affairs, wherever they can resist pirates and criminals of every sort. A few elements to spice it: (just a few random ideas) Some...
Read MoreThe why’s of gaming
I have turned out 40, which I reckon to be great news. This is, I hope, the beginning of my most productive era. Not too young to be naïve, nor too old to be wasted of energy. No, I don’t feel like I’m passing through any sort of crisis, nor that I have to catch up with anything. I’ve done my share of adventure; perhaps I was too cautious at times, but not in the sort that I regret with self-pity the fantasy world of what-could-have-been-if-only. Life’s grand, there’s a lot to do! Any time for gaming? I have bought near a hundred games a supplements in my...
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...
Read MoreExtra, Extra, Newsies and Bootblacks core released!
Newsies and Bootblacks: First Edition, the core of the game is out. Over 220 pages which carry 60,000 words that include the main and optional rules, an extended introduction to the setting, sample non player characters, monsters and an adventure script. I have made every effort to make the eBook readable. The text is set in a single column, so that you won’t have to be scrolling up and down on the screen. On a small kindle or other e-book reader the pdf should be immediately readable, just by turning the display 90º to a nice landscape orientation. Rules favor the imaginative and...
Read MoreExtry! Extry! Newsies & Bootblacks Primer is out. Read all ’bout it
You know that many retailers offer a free introductory booklet of some new game. That is called a primer and that is exactly what I am offering you today. Newsies & Bootblacks: First Game is 15000 words, 62 pages long, and features basic and simplified rules, and introduction to the setting, a character sheet and a sample adventure, complete with pre-generated characters: Forsaken. In Forsaken, the players play the children of well-to-do family who, after school, find themselves forgotten by friends, family and every other living soul. The characters will have to brave the streets of New...
Read More