2023 and Beyond!

So in my last post I told you how little I'd actually managed last year, so what are my aims this year?

The Police Department

My game of futuristic Hill Street Blues.

I believe I have solved my issue with the character issues/personalities and so should be good to go fairly soon. I hav a new blog for this game, as I am hoping for it to be a multi year game, cycling through systems and options although I am sticking to its original Two Hour Wargames' 5150 ruleset for the first little while.

Heroic Adventure RPG System

I finished creating this document in a semi-rush last year, and it's been languishing on ths website ever since. I think only one person has downloaded it, so I'm going to try raising its profile this year.

I was tempted to release it on itch.io, but having seen the amount of exposure this platform lacks I'm now wondering if it should be on Drivethru instead. With itch it would have been fine, but with Drivethru it does lack polish.

It would need to be a free document as it is based on John Harper's Danger Patrol and a non-commercial CC licence, but it might get my name out there a little bit, which could help with future projects.

Monstrum Venatorum

This is another game I want to write. It is a retro clone, which seem to be all the rage nowadays, but it will allow anyone to play a much simplified version of a Grim and Perilous World, or with a bit of tweaking and a re-release, something set about 40,000 years in the future.

I have a vision for this one, and it would be commercial, the only sticking point is suitable images.

I'm tempted to not use any, as my page design is aleady graphic intensive and I want it to be fairly small form - 6 x 9 and quite short, 32/64 pages or less.

The current thought is to separate it into different books, character creation and the rules, a grimoire, a bestiary, a gazetteer (for a home brewed setting so it is a complete game), a down time book and a GM's book.

The only problem is I need to write them!

Pirates: Adventure on the High Seas

This is a Freeform Universal Classic hack I wrote many years ago. It needs a lot of simplifying and a total rewrite I have been partially few for a number of years. It would be nice to get this to a stage where I could release it, hopefully commercially.

Solo Black Seven/Animus

This one is more minor, but I wouldn't mind writing a solo system specifically for this game. In case anyone doesn't know this is a game of stealth, something RPGs are traditionally not very good at.

It would encompass creating an 'installation' to infiltrate and scene and mission goals. It's probably something I could write relatively easily, but not started this at all, just these random thoughts.

Honor + Intrigue

If you read my last post then you know there is a possibility of an online game of this. It's still stuck in the scheduling stage at the moment but ever hopeful I get to swash my buckler.

Other solo

I'm also open to any other solo gaming I could do as the whim takes me, but I'm not sure what that will be.

2022 Review

So as 2022 passes what exactly have I achieved?

Not a lot!

Police Department

This should have been my big project for the end of the year. I just failed to get past character creation.

The problem has been the character flaws. 5150 Working Grave may work fine for one character, but I'm stretching it to cover a selection to give that police procedural vibe.

I have identified a solution and hopefully that will kick start this game again.

Other Solo

I have not been able to get to any solo games in the last little while, and I'm not sure I mananged any at all in 2022!

This is something I really want to rectify, although see below...

Face to Face Gaming

This has been confined to my daughters over the last few years, and with my eldest off at university even that has been difficult. Either she is not here, or not around enough, or with other things to do, that RPGs aren't possible.

However, just this last few weeks there has been talk of an online Honor + Intrigue game. I've had to step forward as potential GM after the previous volunteer had to step down, and scheduling is proving a little tricky, not least because I am GMT based and can't make weekends (my family would likely kill me).

So this is a bright point and I'm hopeful that some sort of game comes out of it in the not too distant future.

In my next post I will reveal what my aims are for 2023.