Sycarion Diversions » reboot http://www.sycarion.com All Kinds of Fun! Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:34:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Choosing BFRPG http://www.sycarion.com/choosing-bfrpg/ http://www.sycarion.com/choosing-bfrpg/#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:45:15 +0000 John Payne http://www.sycarion.com/?p=213 ]]> In my work with Nevermet Press, I wanted to work on providing statblocks for the free content, there. I wanted to choose a Neoclassical system because 4th Edition appears to be well covered. After researching various systems, I chose Basic Fantasy. This system feels the most familiar to me, based on my history of playing. The differences from Basic D&D make sense to me, but also allow for some flexibility in classes, rules, etc. The real winner for me was the ‘source’ content published in OpenOffice file formats. This demonstrated to me that the philosophy of the BFRPG developers is very much in-line with my own.

So, there will be content on my site from this point forward designed specifically for the BFRPG. This month will include new dragons, as well as statblocked content from Nevermet Press.

Did I forget M20? No, I start with M20 and work my way forward. I also intend to provide M20 statblocks for everything as well.

Here’s to a reboot of Sycarion.com

]]> http://www.sycarion.com/choosing-bfrpg/feed/ 1 Reboot http://www.sycarion.com/reboot/ http://www.sycarion.com/reboot/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:49:22 +0000 John Payne http://www.sycarion.com/?p=182 ]]> I have discovered a few things since the last post.

Twitter
The biggest discovery is twitter. On twitter, I can follow along with all kinds of folks. Through it, I’ve gotten to know a few RPG bloggers, Brent Spiner’s twitter fiction, talk to folks all over the world. Cool stuff.

RPG Bloggers Network
The RPG Bloggers Network has shown me that there are people my age that still enjoy role-playing games. Every day, there are lots of articles on all kinds of neat stuff. Just a few days ago, there were three contests going on all at once. I tried my hand at one, but missed the deadline. I’ll post all the other stuff anyway.

I enjoy reading about the Old-School D&D folks and their campaigns. I also found that there really is a 2nd Edition D&D group. wow.

Anyway, I want to be a member of the RPG Bloggers Network, but I need to be more consistent and actually finish a few things.

Open D6
West End Games is back with an OGL version of the core books. They aren’t online, yet, but soon will be. The idea is for a modular online database that allows a user to download only the rules they need.

Otherwise, the material released is quite large. It goes without saying, but the Star Wars game is not OGL, but that is more due to LucasFilms trademarks. However, adventure, fantasy, and space are OGL. Very cool. I hope that with the death of 4e OGL, that folks will give OpenD6 a try.

My Life
I have two small children. I priortize them above most everything else. As such, I’m not able to do things like a 48 hr RPG contest or work on a lot of campaign stuff. Heck, I’m not even in a game group, yet. As such, I’m not going to be able to create a lot of material very quickly. I just don’t have the time to do the marketing and promotion and production quality to do pdfs. So, no Sycarion Diversion on DriveThruRPG.com

It’s freeing in a way. Just offer it for free and let folks use stuff as they wish. Maybe one or two people will visit. Maybe more.

Roadmap

  • Change the About information
  • Fix the wiki
  • remove boltwire
  • remove discussion forums
  • Look to ongoing posts instead of All-At-Once posts.
  • Twitter integration.

Works starts now!

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