The Infinity Road: a free setting
I have made up my mind to make The Infinity Road a free setting; free as in free speech and as in free beer. Reasons? A price tag Turns out that selling a game it’s much more than simply hanging a price tag from it. There are increased costs: both monetary and personal. On the monetary, I would have to hire an editor, which can mean a few hundred of dollars, then a cover, another hundred, at the very least, and the interior art. Then there is the advertising, taxes and a plethora of small things. In other words, I would consider myself fortunate to produce They Infinity Road on less...
Read MoreImprovising an adventure (Part I)
Don’t do this. No, don’t you ever improvise an adventure. Players will notice and hate you… But if you really, really have no choice. This is a sequence you may use, while you ask your players a few minutes to “review your notes” 1. Steal a plot Start searching your own memory first; look for any action, scifi or mystery film. It does not have to be of the same genre of your campaign or game. You could take Star Wars and make it into a Fantasy story, you only need to adjust a few things: X-Wings and Ties could be horses or some other noble stead Big space...
Read MoreOK, Everett, the primer will be free
Free as in free beer. Just in case, Everett Bogue is the author of Minimalist Business, with Newsies & Bootblacks, I’m trying an experiment to see if I can prove him right, if a minimalist business can work for me too or if it’s more dependent on luck or fate. So, what did it happen yesterday? Everett emailed me and personally advised me to release the primer for free. I feel honored. It’s just great when somebody who has already been successful takes a time to offer you a tip. But when the guy is a vowed minimalist who won’t answer an email without a good...
Read MoreA Minimalist Game of thousand pages
Long, long ago, when I was a penniless teenager striving to learn some English in England, I spot an ad on a wargaming magazine about something called Forgotten Futures. Apparently, it was a role-playing game sold on diskettes that you could read on your computer or print. I was intrigued but never went ahead to buy it. Hey, back then, I’ve never heard of what was an ebook. I was still in the possession of the magazine when I first had access to the Internet at home, and I wanted to see if Forgotten Futures was still around. I found it, downloaded the whole thing — the Internet...
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