Okay, so this is a long post about my first impressions of Dreamation... I kinda come off like a schoolgirl with a crush who's not sure the guy she likes is into her...  So, be warned!

 

Okay, a few of us NoVa/Game Parlor rpgers are doing an rpg design/Game Chef kinda thing, which should be fun!  I've stalled out on Dog/Fight and Armament for now, but I'm not running from them or anything... just taking a break while I do some actual playing of rpgs!!!

Also, I've run DRYH now, and I likes it quite a bit.  So of course, now I have to hack it!  I'm working on a superpowers hack, with the focus being on group-created consequences of having powers.  Little more fiddly than DRYH, but hopefully not too much... We'll see.  I'm changing the mechanics a bit, too so I call on all of the powers of the internet to point out my flaws! (In the game design, that is... Ah, what the heck, feel free to point out personal flaws, but I'm not sure Livejournal will allow lists that long!)  Feel free to comment as soon as I post some actual material, hopefully later this week!

Buddha

Okay, let's see if I can at least upload an image of the character sheet...

Okay, here in no particular order other than stream of consciousness are the rules for Dog/Fight as they came to me in my semi-conscious state.  First is the character sheet, since that's kinda what came to me first... then the rules.  Note, though, that anything underlined is either something that contradicted something else in the rules (remember, half-asleep!) or something I added in thought about later.

Okay, here goes! Hmmm... Well, you have to imagine a line down the middle of the sheet... Maybe there's some way I can embed a word doc?

Okay,

I warned all of my friends this'd be my rpg blog, so here goes...

So I've run into DRYH (Don't Rest Your Head) in several different places on the net, so I figure that's a sign, since DRYH has been in my head recently, too!  I've been modifying Bailywolf's Vampire mod of DRYH to be my own, and it's worked very well, as far as I can tell.  I may be running it for the indie group I game with, so I'll hopefully be adding to this post or posting anew with some actual play!

Now, the whole reason I'm posting is because I had one very sleepless night where every 5 minutes or so another idea for a DRYH setting mod woke me up and dragged me kicking, screaming and crying out of bed to jot notes down on whatever scraps of paper were handy.  Knowing myself, those scraps will join the "other" socks in the Land of the Unfound, so I'm gonna post 'em to have 'em handy!  Take that, lousy book-keeping skills!

So, here are the DRYH Mods in shorthand form:

Hot Off The Press!
Discipline = Journalistic Integrity
Exhaustion = Deadline
Madness = Dirty Tricks, Yellow Journalism, Ethical Shortcuts (Need better name for this idea...)

The Thin Blue Line!
Discipline = On the Job (Do I need better name for this?)
Exhaustion = Stress
Madness = Corruption

Don't Play That Game!
Discipline = Dice
Exhaustion = Dew (or Caffeine, or something similar)
Madness = Kewl Powerz (of your character, not you personally) which lets you have cool feats, or rules lawyer your way out of a tight sitch...

Also, Permanent Madness becomes either Gamer Funk, or Steam Tunnel Syndrome, or something funnier.  Running out of Dew might lead to a Geek Out!

And Responses would be; "Talk about my Character" or "Munchkin", or maybe "Derail GM's Plot" and "Rules Lawyer"...

Don't Wake Up!
Discipline = Dream
Exhaustion = Lucidity (Naturally, over 6 = Wake Up!)
Madness = Nightmare

Warlock!
Discipline = Magic (need way more flavorful name... this is "White Magic", safe magic, maybe "Ritual Magic"?)
Exhaustion = POWER (You gather more Power until you Burn Out)
Madness = Curse (Magic which "Stains the Soul")

And... that's all I got for now!

Buddha

Okay, just had a bunch of friends pop up on my LJ, thanks in no little part to the diabolical Xale.  Very cool.  Just so y'all know, this'll probably be mostly empty other than some story/rpg stuff, but who knows, maybe LJing will get into my blood.

Okay, thass it for now, I gotta get back to work... sigh...

Buddha