Author: Bear (Page 195 of 212)

It all starts at the wiki.

I wrote about the upcoming game a bit ago. Now, we are in full swing. Since the players are located all over the country, we are using a forum+wiki to track everything. My character is Henry Carter. He is tracked in chapter one with the heading "Daisy Bell".

I haven't played a serious game in a long time and I am enjoying this one.

I've also learned that much of the rules-medium (d20) or rules-heavy (GURPS) systems can hinder a good story-based game if a GM is not careful. Scott, is a good GM. I know this from playing D&D with him eons ago. His style is a good story building style, as opposed to my style which is more world-building. Whereas I may start to get bogged down in the precise definition of Line-of-Sight, or want to map out exactly how fast Henry's bike can travel, or work out the exact geography of the UFO I saw land, Scott moves things along, weaving all the characters together.

Check out the game, it should be a fun read. Also, keep an eye on Scott - he may write books about this setting. If he does, I'll create game aids for them for Action!

A friend sent me a link talking about a one page RPG. I'm not surprised by them as 1km1kt has a bunch of them.

However, the prospect of the rest of the players determining your stats is intriguing. Scott and I are going to try it out with two of his friends soon. (Yes, we paid the $2.) Check out the original post about Minimus here.

Here's the PDF. Free to download, requested $2 if you use it.

I'll let you know how it goes. Our campaign is similar to Golden Age Comics circa 1937. We plan on being mostly gadgeteers at this point, but who knows what five things I'll come up with. The first one is:

Henry (my character) was born in 1837 and fought in the Battle of Antietam for the Union.