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 MoreThis is New Paris
An introduction to the world of Newsies & Bootblacks Foreword It’s some year between 1890 and 1910, somewhere south of New York and north of Virginia lies the state and city of New Paris. This very first line drafts the spirit of this article; New Paris City is not and will not ever be defined. It’s yours to develop, explore and live. I know there are many who prefer to have everything set up for them, and they are lucky because there are many excellent settings for them to choose. I believe in the power of suggestion. Every work of fiction suggests: from Beowulf through...
Read MoreBook II Adventures: Table of Contents
Next to rules, there is nothing that tells more about the nature of a role-playing than adventures. Settings are nice, but after all, this very plain, modern age Earth allows for every kind of genre in fiction. Or take Dark Sun (c), from D&D, what can stop you to use it for a horror game? So, what I’m going to do is to write the adventures first, and then, with that information, revise the setting. Instead of imagining up some locations and hoping that it would come handy for adventures, I’m creating the adventures and then the locations I need for them. The world thus...
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