Diary of a Failed Game Designer

Below is a game that takes up one page in Libre Office using a 10 point font. Don't want to play D&D anymore ? play this. Guaranteed to have absolutely no roots in anything. Charater Attributes: Roll 1d6 for each attribute to determine the number of dice the character has in that area. (Rolls: 1-3 = 3 dice, 4-5 = 4 dice, roll of 6 = 5 dice) Physical (phisical actions, jumping, fights) Mental (Thinking, figuring, casting, searching) Emotional (empathy, Morale, courage, self controll, concentration) Social (Bargain, arguing, deceit, initial reactions) Actions: During the story when a character wants to perform an action the player rolls 1d10. Results use the chart below. 1 or 2: A failure and a new complication that reduces the atribute pool being used by 1. (You fail to jump the pit fallign to the bottom and hurtting yout leg -1 Phisical) 3 to 4:   A failure but the enviroment gains a complication. (you fail to jump the pit and slide down the inter wall catching a ledge halway ...

W arning, this post doesn't contain any usable gaming content. For that I'm sorry. Not sorry enough to stop typing, but just sorry enough to realize someone might  be looking for usable content, why waste their time. Honestly though, no one is going to read this, so who fuckign cares anyway. This  will stray a bit far afield,...Fair warning. There is a mountain of GM /DM ing advice on the internet. Some of the advice is practical. Things like "Here is how I used index cards to organize my notes", or "here is the shorthand I used to  write monster descriptions for quick reference." These are useful things that can help a new Gm. I'm all for that. There are people who have been playing for a very long time they're bound to have picked up a few tricks that make running games smoother. I'm all for that. Some internet DMing advice is personal opinion cloaked as useful tips. Even all that opinion can still be useful. Insightful opinions about how to ru...

GO PLAY: On the internet, we talk, argue, and, insult each other about games. We rarely express how blessed we are to have the time to waste thinking about such inane things. There are people just as smart and imaginative as anyone reading this blog who don't have the chance to argue. People that will never get the chance to enjoy a life such that they have time to waste arguing over role playing games. So Go play. GO play OSR Games. GO play story games. Go play board games. GO Larp. Go make up your own RPGs and play them with your friends. Go to Cons, make new friends. Go do whatever you want. If you want, take a second to realize how lucky we are. Think about the privilege we waste every time we're unkind to each other on the internet over something as inane as games. OK, now that I'm off my soap box, here's the tax. Have this: A 13 point game. It's shit. Each player Describes their character. Each player picks a number from six to fifteen. A lower represents the ...