Winthrop Hawley
Just playing around with format. The grey line indicates the actual card dimensions.
Well, actual as in 3.5″ wide and 2.5″ tall, anyway.
Fair Play
The Index
Ha, a first crack at the Fiasco index. Not enough Mexican gangsters with pitbulls yet.
One Cowboy, Two Pages, Three Point Type
More or less to see if they would fit, I condensed the rules for Cowboys With Big Hearts onto a single double-sided letter page, just right for folding up in a tuck box. They fit and I didn’t lose much color, although it pains me. Can you read this or is it an exercise in tiny type futility? That’s 8-point Garamond, which seems cruel.
Dying Cowboy Update
I got a chance to playtest Cowboys With Big Hearts again on Saturday at Ice Station Nerdly. It went surprisingly well! Here are the 54 cards:
I printed out the card content onto Avery 5263 labels and stuck them on color-coded index cards. The finished version will be 2.5″ by 3.5″ playing cards. Here’s us playing:
One player had never played a roleplaying game before that day. She was fantastic, as you might expect. The game is a weird mix of extremely heavy, old school GM authority and completely player-driven action. I think it may end up being tricky to get right, but I may be mistaken. The new RPGer said “This is really fun. I want to run this at PAX east next spring” to which I said “OK!”.