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Highly disagree. publishing a rpg is as easy as offering PDFs and POD copies. Drivethru or Lulu will print it and ship it and collect the money. The creator doesn't have to do anything.

This one was slapped together in an evening by another person Chaosium was just house ruled DnD with a percentile skill system and is one of the most successful game companies out there. The concept of a roleplaying game took an incredibly talented and created person to discover, but once...

Example of someone writing a roleplaying game.

I'm saying writing a roleplaying game isn't all that difficult.

I record all my game sessions so this is my ultimate notebook of what actually occurred. By the time I've edited the audio into a listenable format I've got the whole session pretty much memorized so I spend less time on prep and more time daydreaming what the villains are plotting/doing. I use...

Douglas Cole of Gaming Ballistic is out promoting his company's latest release Tower of the Moon and he takes the time to slum it around at the Vanishing Tower! This is part one of the interview where we get off into many roleplaying topics including the evolution of his 5th Edition fantasy...

No it isn't. There is no equivalency between writing a novel and writing up some rules to adjudicate a role playing session. Have you tried writing a novel? Have you tried writing a set of role playing game rules? If you try you will find the difficulty level between the two is extremely vast...

Old School Rationale

"transparency over illusionism, improvisation and collaboration over extensive rules and prep. These all seem like an extension of OSR principles, " I'm stealing this! Great explanation of what great play looks like for both players and game masters. The degree in which this occurs at the table...

Creating a roleplaying game is dead simple. A 16 year old kid wrote Flashing Blades. The "skilled" profession of game design may be desired and required for board games, because a board game can be created which is broken. But designing a roleplaying game is incredibly simple. Roleplaying, at...

GoFundMe has been set up to make this project see the light of day, please read on what and why this is for. I was back in the White Mountains of New Hampshire three weeks ago and on the many miles I hiked I passed once again through the Greenleaf and Zealand Falls huts. The AMC hut system is...

The DIY Conan inspired USR Sword & Sorcery!

Sophistication in my sphere of thought and language is in an artistic sense. I've painted long enough I know how to use the materials; form, texture, color, "effectively". All that means is becoming conscious of ability. You can recognize the lines of discovery you have yet to cross, and you...

Low performance or low ability does not equal malevolence. I'm not saying if someone has poor DM skills they are "bad" people. Though most people take criticism in that way.

Please don't take being direct as hostile tone. You read to much into that. I'm just being clear instead of wishy-washy.

I remember that. I always looked for questions of Read Magic. I had a difficult time trying to figure out how to use it per the description. Moldvay mind-****** me on that one. Mod Edit: Language.

Are you playing combat out on a map or battle map with dioramas and tracking movement rates in detail? I run DnD strictly theater of the mind and distances and range are approximated. Combat in B/X is ten seconds. It easy to get agreement on what a person can do in that time frame. If I remember...

I think it takes an ability to be self-reflective and what I like to call "the ability to get over yourself". Instead of requiring the GM to be "trustworthy" it is more fruitful, and mature, to assume good faith and look to see where one is falling down on their end to create interesting combat...

As a game master I would not be allowed to make rulings. I found in a game of Champions roleplay would be routinely interrupted by someone digging through the book to point out a very specific rule. Usually after saying wait, let me look that up. I agree Hero is simple. 11 or less to succeed...