Misspent Youth updated manuscript

Mickey (aka Geek Girls Rule) was kind enough to run Misspent Youth ridiculously early for me, on last Friday night. She hit a brick wall trying to use the conflict system, for which I am sorry. I did some stupid things in the writing that didn’t make this clear or were downright confusion-additive. I’ve uploaded a new manuscript, this one in PDF form. All the changes have been in the conflict article entitled “Throwing Your Body Upon the Gears.”

I am also starting a mailing list for those interested in getting email updates about Misspent Youth (such as when it’s coming out in ashcan, when things change, maybe when I have art to show, etc.). If you’re interested, respond here with your address or write me at my gmail account, which is at rob dot bohl.

[Misspent Youth] First draft fully completed

The first draft of Misspent Youth is done. 11,717 words. I am happy.

[Misspent Youth] Drafts (and the rest. . . .)

Ok, this is the last of the “Misspent Youth First Draft” extravaganza posts. I have now written a first draft of every piece of text I anticipate the game needing. These last few pieces discuss how endgame works; suggested drifts for the game; a “mood and theme” piece which talks about the kind of movies, tv, etc., which are mood-appropriate for the game; and a game-influences and people-thank-yous piece.

Endgame

Optional Rules

Mood and theme media

Inspirations and thank-yous

Up next: proofreading and the adding of examples. After that, farming it out to the people who foolishly promised to proofread the text. After that, time to send it out for beta playtesting and considering whether or not to start layout just yet.

[Misspent Youth] Chapter 5 draft: Exercising Your Authority

This is a brief GM advice chapter for Misspent Youth. I figure on adding to this as I play more games or as people tell me there’s shit the game is missing.

Exercising Your Authority

PS: Master Mines, I realize this may be getting a bit spammy. If it’s too much so, please let me know.

[Misspent Youth] Chapter 4 draft: Conflict System

This is the last of the major-system piece first-drafts for Misspent Youth. “Throwing Your Body upon the Gears” describes the conflict system for the game.

At this point, I have very little left to write: an Authority advice chapter, a brief piece about endgame, and a section on optional rules. I might be done for today, I might not. Game Chef is calling me.

As before, this is a raw first draft. Please be gentle to it.

[Misspent Youth] Chapter 3 draft: Episode structure

I’ve just uploaded two new files for Misspent Youth.

First we have the new rules outline document, which tinkers with the default claim numbers on the first few scenes. I found an inconsistency between what I said the scenes should be doing and the difficulty of the scene based on the numbers claimed. This is a small set of changes.

Much cooler, I have finished a first draft of the episode structure chapter/article, called Death or Glory? Just Another Story. This is probably going to be the biggest article for the game and has some of the stuff I’m most excited about in the game. I’m really proud of it.

As I’ve noted in earlier posts like this one, I have not even read this even a single time after it left my fingertips. I’ll be doing so later. If you do read this, keep that in mind. Also, any comments or questions are welcome, provided you keep this whole “I haven’t read this once” thing in mind

[Misspent Youth] Chapter 2, Character Creation

Chapter/article 2 of Misspent Youth written, Lil’ Bastards and Riot Grrrls.  Again this is very rough; I haven’t even proof-read it once. Read and enjoy if you wish. At some point I’ll be doing more cromulent versions of these chapters.