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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kitsune9" data-source="post: 6143024" data-attributes="member: 18507">I just finished one myself. You can download it under the post The Empire of the Raven rpg in this forum. It's kind of like a colonial game meets monsters and insanity. It was something I originally submitted for Design an RPG in 7 Days contest, but what I submitted was fairly incomplete for my goals. I definitely added some more material and I think that's one of the design issues in determining when to stop. Since I know that I have no time to be able to playtest it let alone bother to publish it, I only wanted to provide enough material for someone to run a few games and then be able to say, "Okay, this system works." or "Nope, game is too broken because of X, Y, and so on."I did however set some clear guidelines as where I would stop so I wouldn't do more than necessary:1. I set the number of talents, powers, and monsters at 20. I figure that's a good number as any to get a couple adventures of material if not more. The sample adventure though had more monsters in it.2. I wanted the maximum number of skills to be 12, but ended up with 9.3. I wanted the maximum number of professions to be 7, but ended up with 5.4. 1 sample adventure, something simple (explore a tomb). Some hooks to go with it.5. At least 3 campaign secrets so that GM's could write or do their own story arc for discovery. Once the campaign secrets have been discovered and resolved, then I actually consider the campaign (and the game in general) finished.For my design considerations, I had thought of the game in terms of Pathfinder or Castles and Crusades, but I enjoy playing with all sorts of new systems, so wanted to design my own set of mechanics from the ground up. I'm sure that if I chose Castles and Crusades, it would have been a significantly smaller game (just races, class descriptions, and rules on insanity and Fortune and Grim points).</blockquote>

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