Speaking about the Monster Commute RPG, what sorts of things are you hoping that's in there?
Here's what I've been working on so far: (in general)
- Basic principles
- Monster Commute Game Glossary
- Choosing a Race
- The Races (Explained)
- Choosing a Past (for skills and background)
- How to build a Past
- Potentials: Body, Mind and Spirit
- Body, Mind, and Spirit skill lists
- Majik Skills and Jinx
- Gifts Directory
- Faults Directory
- Stunts
- The Crew
- The Rig
- Rig Gifts and Faults
- Majik overview
- The fable of Majik
- Player Creation (step by step)
- Combat (Currently empty)
- Gamemaster section (Currently empty)
- Monstru - overview of the races, the world, the cities of note, etc.
- The 5 Provinces
- Creatures (Need better name - this is the Monster Manual of the book)
- Oddities of Monstru
- Monstru Glossary
- Racial Slurs and insults
- Legends of Monstru
- Urban Environment random charts
- Price Chart and the economy of Monstru
Hopefully some of this will be stuff that non-RPG players might be interested in too.
Progress to date:
Words: 14,000
Pages: 31
This is still very much a work in progress, and since it's the first draft, it's still quite mushy in form. That's okay, because I want to get it all down, and worked out.
I still intend to add sections like:
- Playing the game
- Gamemastering tips/advice
- Setting the stage
Releases
I hate it when game companies try to bilk one for every dollar, with endless modules, add-ons, and editions. Frankly, we won't be able to do that, as we're just a couple of people and we really don't want to make you feel ripped off.
Here's our release idea:
- Release version ONE as free pdf edition. Not crippled. Not condensed. Not very playtested either. Hopefully with illustrations/design too.
- Solicit feedback/help to clean/fix it all up. Fix spelling errors. Edit for clarity.
- Wait 6 months to playtest more.
- Print a deluxe (and fixed) edition and offer it for sale.
- Put out more free RPG content here on Monster Commute.com
- PERHAPS put out a supplement once per year that collects new content such as new races, new cities, maps, rules and all that. PDF or print or both.
Anyway, that's our plan.
What do you want in your Monster Commute RPG?
(And don't say DICE!)
- Daniel
