Learn to write Cthulhu adventures

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There is some more game/blog activity

I am starting to gather all of the stuff I have discussed over the years into the blogs so you can all be more completely aware of where I am with each of the games. Today I added some material for the character creation for Starry Messengers.

Just so you know.

The Roman Britain Game [Pt1]

The places one can be from functions like races in most fantasy games. In the RBG it will be somewhat more so. The basic list is as follows: Romans, Brythonic Celts, Wester Celts, Saxon Shore Celts, Picts. I may bring in the Angles, Jutes and Irish at a later point.

The Romans are self explanatory, they are what is left when the legions pulled out, they are mostly land owners, retired Legionaries, and traders from the empire. Brythonic Celts are the Celts who were assimilated into the empire. They make up the vast majority of the people in Britannia. The Western Celts are the unassimilated Celts in the areas of Wales, the lakes and peaks districts and western Scottish lowlands. The Saxon Shore Celts are from the south easter coastal areas. they are an area with closer ties to the continental Germanic tribes. They have been assimilating continental migrants for the entirety of the Roman occupation but are starting to develop a distinct identity. The Picts are a tribal people from north of Hadrian's wall.

The games I want to finish

I have some time now, so I think I should be building toward the future. There are several games I have had rattling around in the old attic. I want to organize my thoughts here and get started finishing them.

1. The Roman-Britain Game this is the first priority and I will probably crib a great deal from D&D and HeroQuest as my model. The first goal is to develop a serviceable game then distill the system and publish.

2. Gargoyles by Gaslight will probably use the same system as the RB game in the beginning. This is a chance to build a conventional sort of game.

3. Loqui needs another round of development to improve the capacity of the players to do novelistic things with their stories.

4. Starry Messengers has bot a method of using the humors and of describing the needs of the character but it needs a full game around the system.

5. The WWI flying game needs a board built and some planes described to begin playtest.

There you go, I have five months left to do some of this. Keep looking in for updtaes.