Diary of a Failed Game Designer

The following took me an hour and a half to generate.. I still have a ton of work to do, but I think I have a good start. So what did I learn? Keeping track of hours is not easy when you are running and playing alone.  The game taking 2 points of food per company member per day is just easier than saying eat every  12 hours.  on the other side one hour per action taken by  company members is easy to track and works for me. (AkA examining the statues or hunting voices in the swamp.) Setting up a company takes about 5 minutes. This is good ....but...... The wagon needs more options Characters need more skill options. I have not written weapons or armor at all yet. I need to raise the travel times. With out a Gm there is not much to dig into. I had little reason to stop ad make exploration rolls other than trying to find the source of the noises in the swamp, and  examining the  statues. With a Gm there would be more to do. The party found a big horn sheep , I never bothered to roll it

I took a year ( 11 months ) off from blogging. Anything I posted in 2018 were just unfinished articles I found floating around on my hard drive. Great. I think I needed the break. I was getting pretty disillusioned with the whole online R.P.G. scene. Google had, and has changed their algorithms so that even the more successful blogs were having some trouble drawing traffic like they had in the past. My actual human viewer count went from small to nonexistent overnight. Which was a bit of a gut punch. Secondly our live gaming group just had a straight up busy year, so there was less gaming going on at the table. I'm one of those people who is far more creative when I can share or use what I'm working on. Otherwise I loose interest. So, How do I find my self typing on the old blog? Google announced that they are finally killing G+. Apparently by August 2019 the service will be, as they say"sunseted." Sunseted being a made up nice way of saying "slowly killed."