Post by Ymbert Montgomery on Oct 19, 2021 21:49:13 GMT
What is The Big Project tm?
A plan for me to write an original game.
A plan for me to write an original game.
Will this be an En Garde! variant?
No, it will be a completely original commercially available RPG. It'll take inspiration from En Garde! (and other RPGs like Heroes and Superhero 2044). The main signs of that are likely to be the "programmed" nature of turns (a number of actions every turn) and the old school wargame influence. But it will have a completely different system and be its own thing. (Apart from anything else, considering how kind Pevans is about letting us reproduce things like tables, taking advantage of his kind nature by releasing a commercial game based on En Garde! would seem very caddish).
What are you looking to put in the game?
It's very early days (this is at the idea stage) but some things I'm looking at as general principles.
A novel and unique setting (this isn't going to be elves and goblins).
More inclusive. It's not going to be a "campaigning" RPG or ultra politically correct. But I'm aware that with female PCs we've pretty much stretched En Garde! as far as it can go with the default of "French straight man" and it would be good to see if more character options are feasible in a new game.
A way of integrating forum play/PBEM. With the games I'm taking as inspiration it's obviously the case that when they were designed the two options were face to face and PBM (with maybe some fanzine support). It's just a kernel of an idea at the moment, but I think there may be interesting things that we can be done with the modern format; things like private forums etc.
What will the setting be?
I'm not even at that stage yet; I have a shortlist of three ideas I'll put in a separate thread.
A way of integrating forum play/PBEM. With the games I'm taking as inspiration it's obviously the case that when they were designed the two options were face to face and PBM (with maybe some fanzine support). It's just a kernel of an idea at the moment, but I think there may be interesting things that we can be done with the modern format; things like private forums etc.
What will the setting be?
I'm not even at that stage yet; I have a shortlist of three ideas I'll put in a separate thread.
Are you looking for playtesters/proofreaders?
Playtesters at some point in the future. As I put the rules up, feedback is very welcome as is proofreading. Because the plan is for commercial release eventually, pedantry about things like grammar and spelling is actively encouraged!
What's the timescale for this?
There isn't one. We could be talking several years; it's not something with a hard deadline currently.
What's the timescale for this?
There isn't one. We could be talking several years; it's not something with a hard deadline currently.
How does this affect Liminal En Garde!?
It doesn't and won't do for the foreseeable future. The time for this is being taken from my "work" time rather than my "leisure" time and EG! comes into the latter category. There may come a point where I want to talk about potentially handing En Garde! over to someone else so I can focus on beta playtesting (and I obviously hope people will join me in any new game) but we're really talking some time in the distant future there.
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It doesn't and won't do for the foreseeable future. The time for this is being taken from my "work" time rather than my "leisure" time and EG! comes into the latter category. There may come a point where I want to talk about potentially handing En Garde! over to someone else so I can focus on beta playtesting (and I obviously hope people will join me in any new game) but we're really talking some time in the distant future there.
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Ask it here!
