Abandoned

Since infogami has been abandoned by its creators, I’m out too. Back to web.fisher.cx for me. Everything that was here is there.

Robert Fisher

Just thinking out loud

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Campaigns

Other ideas:

Wuxia + Buck Rogers. (My Star Wars) Wushu abilities. Egalitarian. Smithian inertialess drive.
Fantasy island hopping

Games I most want to play:

That I have:

Barbarians of Lemuria A free game by Simon Washbourne. Based on Lin Carter's Throngor books (which, in turn, were based on REH's Conan).
Buck Rogers High Adventure Cliffhangers By Jeff Grubb. Published by TSR in 1993 after XXVc. Based on the original comics.
Dragon Warriors A role-playing game published by a game book company. It's like classic D&D's identical cousin.
Dungeon Squad A brilliant 24-hour role-playing game by Jason Morningstar. (i.e. An entry in a contest to create a role-playing game in only 24-hours.) More minimalist than Dinky Dungeons.
Prince Valiant the Storytelling Game By Greg Stafford. Published in 1989. The little brother of Pendragon.
Wushu. A good substitute for Toon for one-offs?
Honorable Mention: Pace.
(I’m having Risus thoughts again)

That I don't have:

Dinky Dungeons A minimalist role-playing game. (Though not as minimalist as TWERPS.) I have never seen--& may never see--a copy.
Trollbabe (But not necessarily as actual trollbabes in its setting)

The interesting thing about this list (unless invalidated by a subsequent edit) is that they are all either free or out-of-print.

Homebrewing ideas

Simplified LA (stealing some ideas from d20 & BRP)
Realms of Magic: A Magic Realm RPG
R20: d20 simplified with some things from the 3e UA; similar to True20 but with some different choices
Low20: Classless d20 with fixed hp
Feat-trees: Similar to TFT but with levels; pick a new (feat-like) ability each level; abilities are organized into a DAG via prereqs
A game inspired by what I've read of Dinky Dungeons

Proto-D&D ideas

A sort of proto-D&D where level or HD is supreme
A proto-D&D variant with something like the Chainmail man-to-man table or the Traveller combat tables; d6 only

30 November 2006 thoughts:

I'm once again trying to put order to my homebrew thoughts.

There is some intersection of simplified d20, LA, & BRP (& True20) ("Low Fantasy") that keeps bouncing around my brain. The big problem, I think, is that there are two or three different directions vying in this area. (Update 25 Jan 2007: I think I've got this worked out to three possibilities: simplified LA, True20ish, & low fantasy.)
My constant ruminations on a proto-D&D seems to always lead towards Dungeon Squad or Dinky Dungeons. I should really try to finish a DDish draft.
Realms of Magic. I'd love to play this, but putting together a draft feels mostly like busy work. I should perhaps try to put together some playtests of the ideas.
I should stop thinking about Osric or a stripped down AD&D2e (or OD&D). Classic D&D is my baseline D&D, & I can borrow ideas from the others. Likewise, Dragon Warriors.
I really need a systems for genres other than fantasy, but my homebrew ideas so often seem to be fantasy based.
What I really should do is concentrate on finishing classic D&D play-aids, preparing for the LotR revival, or working on Silvion/Ironmoon.

Other thoughts:

I really want to develop some Wushu ideas to use for one-offs in place of Toon. I think the style of the two games (turns & player narration) are similar, but less narrative falling on me might make it go better. Also, I think I'd like something a bit less anything-goes than Toon.
Need to revive the LotR campaign. (Though perhaps I should challenge Jax to GM something first...)
On the one hand, I'm really anxious to run my own classic D&D stuff instead of modules. I think I generally do much better when not running modules. On the other hand, I'm so indecisive that I'm not really prepared to. But, this should wait until after the LotR revival.
As much as I enjoyed the classic Traveller campaign, I think (at least as GM) I'm more interested in more pulp-ish sci-fi right now. I could run Traveller in that style, but there are better fits.

Random thoughts:

How about a game where the players can create (virtually) any character they want? Not just a free-form, narrative kind of game. Take a traditional game & give the players carte blanche.
(Kirk-ish) What is the die roll determined if you would succeed if you tried instead of failure? (Perhaps Wushu gives similar results in a better way?)

Latest (15 June 2006) thoughts:

Of course, there’s Silvion.
I’m now thinking about a Star Trek (TOS/TAS era) campaign. (System?)
- Donald Hosford's Star Cadets
- John Kim's The Final Frontier
I came across my “low fantasy” d20 draft. That could be a fun thing to finish up sometime.
I’ve been thinking about my ideas for a streamlined LA style system.

I need to move & update my plans from the fisher.cx site. But for now, I’m just going to make a few notes of things I’m interested in...

An RPG set in the Crimson Skies universe (see also the wikipedia article)
An RPG set in the Rocketmen universe
Buck Rogers High Adventure Cliffhangers—which uses a version of the BR universe closer to the original short story & early comics

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