#basicroleplayingdesignchallenge

I'm still trying to work on my BRP Design Challenge entry. It's not always easy. I had to look it up. Apparently there's this thing called "sleep" that people actually do. Hmm. I'll have to look into it.

The Deadline for the BRP Design Challenge draws ever closer. Here’s the link again. I probably won’t stop talking about it until everything is said and done. It’s a great contest and a good system to be working with. BRP: Universal Game Engine has the benefit of being incredibly well playtested over decades of Pendragon, Call of Cthulhu, and Runequest. The game is fairly intuitive if one has…

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Yup. I got to play single parent today. I’ll be really glad when my wife returns tomorrow. I’m wiped. You don’t realize how much someone contributes until they go out of town for a day. Oof. I need to get rolling on my BRP Design Challenge submission. Deadline is coming up faster than I realized. So much to cover yet. I think I can safely say I’m just putting in the one submission. Disclaimer:…

Lots of stuff to talk about now that the First day of May is upon us. I've got multiple irons in the fire, the most important being Chaosium's BRP Design Challenge. I'm immersed in the event, but I'm woefully behind schedule at the moment.

Ah, the First of May. This is going to be pretty short because I need to get rolling on my BRP Design Challenge submission. I’m still working on the first one and I don’t know if there’s going to be a second one at this point. I’ve got to get a lot of what’s in my head down onto the keyboard before I’m finished. Disclaimer: Statements expressed in this article are strictly my opinion. If you…

One month left until the deadline for Chaosium's Basic RolePlaying: Universal Game Engine Design Challenge. I'm starting to feel the time crunch.

The May 31 deadline for entries rapidly approaches. Today is the first day I really started freaking out about the deadline. Putting together pitches, budget, manuscript, and other details honestly looks easy on paper. I’ve definitely been learning a lot during this process so far. The biggest challenge I face today is getting from this neato idea that’s been running around in my head for years…

Putting in lots of work on my entry for the Basic RolePlaying Design Challenge. I'm happy and grateful that Chaosium has extended this opportunity to all of us.

I never thought I’d say it, but weekends are for writing. I’m working on my BRP Design Challenge entry. Sometimes I have to choose between blogging and working on the game. This BRP entry is so much fun to work on and I’m dying to say more, but it’s probably best not to do so before the judging ends. If you’re working on an entry of your own, I wish you luck. If you haven’t heard of it yet, you…

I’ve hit the point where I’m spending too much time in my head. I got well into outlining my first Basic RolePlaying: The Ultimate Engine world book for the Design Challenge, and now I have cold feet. What if this isn’t what the judges are looking for? Will it sell to a non-fantasy audience? Will it make money if/when I get it published?I might be laughing about all of this in June when I’m…

So far we’ve discussed genre selection. Now let’s take a look at actually selling this thing. We have to submit both an elevator (short, poignant) pitch and a longer, back-of-the-book style pitch for the BRP Design Challenge. (*Lots of hearts.) I’m crazy excited about this thing. I am going bonkers on this game engine and designing this setting.Genre selection is super important when it comes to…

What is Steampunk and how do we define it? Full disclosure: Steampunk is on the top of the list of games I want to create. But is it a genre? Is it a subgenre of fantasy, science fiction, somewhat modern gaming, or all of the above?I see it much as I see the anime/manga category. It’s a skin we put over other games to make them sound cooler. We’re casting spells, but because it’s coming out of…