Let me start with some honest. I have never (successfully) designed an RPG from the ground up. With that said I have heavily modified almost every game I have ever played.
I have recently been inspired by the Mythic GME app, along with Mythic Magazine #31, Using Mythic GME as a Light RPG, to work up a slightly heavier version of the concept that keeps the freeform nature, but adds a bit more structure to character creation and advancement, while conversely lowering the complexity of NPC/Monsters. This page, and many to follow after it, over the next few months is will be a design log of an on the go game that can be played directly from a mobile device.
It will cover concepts like character creation, hierarchy of abilities, character advancement, keeping NPC simple (because who doesn't like monsters and sidekicks), organizing Lists, ways to build special abilities that feel special, how to start the game at various power levels, and I am sure a host of other topics.
The goal is to use the app, and a simple notebook function found on almost all portable devices, to play the entire game, but to have enough crunch to satisfy a feeling of an organized system, even on the go. The Descriptor and Rank system given in the article give a strong groundwork to build from
Let me start by saying nothing is wrong what so ever with the app and the magazine article, and I may well be sliding a game out into the world that is neither necessary in any way or wanted. But all my life I have wanted to create an release into the wild a tool that will allow people to build characters and worlds for their imaginations to play in. So accompanying the rules modules will be a few examples from my varied interest that you will be able to grab and play if you want.
I know the popularity of this blog is largely due to my upkeep of the Mythic Magazine Index, and that will still be a major focus, but I want to take all those rich modular elements available in the magazines, and my own humble creativity, and give back a bit more.
If you read this far, thank you.
W.D.
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