Extry! 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 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 More[HV] Act I A rough wake up Scene 1
A few words So here it’s the first scene of the Hotel Versailles adventure. As you can see, I’m more or less following the structure of a movie script. This has been a very simple scene, in which I haven’t used any Newsies and Bootblack rules at all, just the Mythic GME tools. Next Scene to come soon. A rough wake up. Scene 1 Interior. Staff dorms – Boys. Dawn Tad(14) is pouring water in a bowl. Frank(9) is already washing his hands and chest. Through a narrow window a red sun rises over the dome of the New Paris Opera House, casting a gentle light in the small...
Read MoreChanges, more changes
As you can see, I’ve been changing more than a few things around here in MiniM. It’s not that l love change — well I do– but that I’m still trying to discover what’s the best way to implement my dreams. That, and, that I’m keeping the work on Newsies & Bootblacks, of course, but we will speak about that a bit later. Changes to the design of the blog. Since the very start of this game I’ve been struggling to find a compromise between a theme that says “I’m minimalist” and “I make games”, and a design that...
Read MoreThat’s Swell
If you know me from the times of Newsies and Pickpockets then you know what I’m going to share. About half a year ago, I wrote a game-book by the title of That’s Swell and placed it online on a blog. That’s Swell uses a simplified version of the rules of this game as my main target then was to convince the unbelievers that role-playing a newsboy could be great fun. A game book, you said? Just in case, game-books are books in which you can choose the outcome of the story by deciding what the main character is going to do. The writer becomes sort of a Game Master, while the...
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