How many of you have made your own RPG?

[Jhaelen]

Well, looks like yesterday's post of mine never reached EnWorld. I'll make it short this time:
I developed several rpg systems one of which was successfully played for a couple of years. I've also been doing a lot of 'modding'. I'm also a collector of rpg systems with innovative rules.

Fiddling with rpg mechanics and math is great fun for me. Actually, sometimes it's more fun than actually playing the game.

 

[Achan hiArusa]

Fiddling with rpg mechanics and math is great fun for me. Actually, sometimes it's more fun than actually playing the game.

Yep, pretty much how I feel most of the time.

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

Most of my design efforts have been devoted to tinkering with D&D - and some versions that I've foisted onto my players probably deserve to be considered new games. Abject failures, but still new games.

I've only actually attempted one ground-up sort of new RPG. It was intended to be an adaptation of the X-com computer game. Never got far with it because my concept for the game actually required building a lot of 3d game environments. Also, I couldn't find monster and PC troop minis I liked. Ah, but it would be GLORIOUS if I ever did it.

 

[MonkeyDragon]

I have indeed. I wrote a LARP.

I wanted to larp, but I didn't like the rulesets that I could find online. I wanted something that was more like D&D. So I wrote the book myself.

Now that my friends and I have played for the last sevenish years (one or two events a year), I'm in the middle of the second major rules revision, and it's going very well.

It's d20 based, the ability scores are the same as 3.5, the skills are like a combination of skills and feats, and the combat and spells are adjusted to be played live. There's still a lot of bugs to be worked out, but it's my baby, and I love it.

As far as publishing...I'm not sure. Though I think the game is fun enough and the rules, once polished, will be solid, it might be too hard to make it work with a d20 liscense and too similar to D&D to be entirely kosher. I would have to do a lot of research and whatnot, and if I DO, it will likely be just a small time thing that I'll bring a couple copies of the book to the conventions I attend as a guest, and try to convince random passersby that there is NOTHING more fun than running around in the woods whacking your friends with swords made from pool noodles and duct tape.

 

[Mallus]

Settings, yes. Rules systems, no. But I prior to 4e I kitbashed like crazy.