Diary of a Failed Game Designer

Lets talk about role playing games, or not. There has been a lot of ground covered about RPG's in the past 40 some years. This subject has spawned millions of words , and an untold number of ideas viable and otherwise. And it continues. I read some blogs regularly, every day I check in on Dyver's,The Tao of D&D, Jeff's and a few others, every day I get an injection of ideas. Sure we go over the same ground a lot but much of the time we try at least to put a new slant on things. (links are in my blog roll on the left margin of this page.) So why? Is the real game that Arneson / Gygax birthed to us all those years ago the game of constantly reinterpreting the idea of “role playing?” We have people still playing white box D&D, under the same hobby umbrella as folks doing free form small group larps. Then there is everything between. Yet the hobby is not satisfied. I wrote a post the other day about my current projects, all of which are RPG's. Why? I Could happily

Then it turned into a 2 hour discussion of cars we used to own and how we destroyed them. It was a win. Yeah I had that........once upon a time

In no particular order here are the RPG things I have on my plate right now. The  Article for Dyvers "Can't we all just get along" project: I have an idea what I want to write and a few notes now I need to write it. Then read it and write it again. I may be the only one doing game system type stuff for this project though I'm not sure of that, either way it has to be good, cause everyone else will be doing great stuff. Aleria The RPG:  I have not talked about this here yet, but for the record I am in the middle of building a system exclusively for my campaign. Based off My AAEE game only  taken a bit more seriously, I have quite a bit written, with  quite a bit more to go. I guess the reason I have not talked all that much about it here is because I don' think some of the ideas in the game are quite ready for prime time yet. To be honest this is and has been for a while my primary project. Nova 74: The game of 70's crime cinema is still thing, I need to keep p

"The demon started the  contagion whose cure can only be found in the book which you will gain access to only once the demon has been banished." If you are reading here it's a safe assumption you have been here . If not you should. Anyone who does a blog that has some random charts for RPG's is bound to run into very high standard set by "The Dungeon Dozen." For all the right reasons to, that blog is awesome, so go check them out. The only thing I have never seen there and, I may have missed something are charts linked to become something other what they are individually.. so... Here for you today I offer seven quick 1d12 charts that could if you were a desperate misanthrope (much like myself) be strung into the mini quest from the title of this blog. Use the  charts to Fill out a mad lib: *  The demon started a contagion of ______________________________. Which can only be cured by __________________. Behind the door that __________________________, You may