I thought I’d have more time to game once the harvest season was over, and I guess I do. But, I’ve started on quite a project… Making a tabletop RPG from scratch with a friend.

This all started with us wanting to try some RPGs on Google Wave (me pushing it, of course) to see how viable it would be. Well, when deciding on a system to use it got fairly difficult — didn’t want the usual fantasy or sci-fi (we get enough of that in video games) so modern-ish something was the general genre to look for. There really wasn’t that much that appealed (that could be found, easily) and we both wanted something that wasn’t going to be combat heavy or crunch heavy. We probably could’ve found something sooner or later, but who wants to read through dozens of books and thousands of pages to find that something?

So, we decided to go in another direction and make our own (though I think I was pushing it again, but my friend jumped on it soon enough and started adding content like crazy). I have to say — it’s a heck of a lot of work.

We’ve got over 20 pages worth on basic character creation and play. Information on the world is still quite bare, likely just a few pages for it, but it’s set in present-day Earth — so that takes a chunk of the work out (when compared to an entirely different world setting).

Once the rules are close to being as ‘set’ as they’re going to be, and the world info is better detailed, I’ll likely be posting a PDF copy of it all on here or somewhere — completely free, of course. (and waiting for criticism)