Posted by Jason on April 1st, 2010 — in Check this out dude, Design
Here’s a fun idea I’m playing with. Not sure what will come of it but I can see the art in my head, so that’s a good sign!
Theodore Roosevelt was truly a monumental figure in American history. His accomplishments read like a catalog of every child’s dreams – statesman, soldier, explorer, rancher, scholar, athlete, barbarian warlord, vampire, disembodied brain housed inside a mechanical man. His was a life well lived.
A many-faceted man; a hero to many. A man who cared deeply about the world around him. And when that world was threatened by the most deadly peril imaginable, Theodore Roosevelt was faced with a dilemma. Clearly he was the man for the job, and yet he couldn’t face it alone. He needed help – the sort of help only Theodore Roosevelt could provide. He put out the call, and eight versions of himself answered. It would have to be enough. For the world to survive, it would be…
NINE ROOSEVELTS AGAINST THE IMPOSSIBLE!
There are nine Roosevelts.
Roosevelt-69: Sickly child with a voracious appetite for knowledge and a keen intellect
Roosevelt-78: Bright-eyed Harvard man, pugilist, scholar and all-around campus swain
Roosevelt-85: Trail-weary buckaroo, rancher, outdoorsman and deputy sheriff
Roosevelt-99: The Colonel, commander of Rough Rider volunteers, soldier and patriot
Roosevelt-06: Diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize winner, President of the United States of America
Roosevelt-10: African adventurer, hunter and owner of “Big Medicine”, the world’s largest rifle
Roosevelt-A: Baron Téodor of Wallachia, vampire and ladies man
Roosevelt-B: Lord of the Dab-Qasar highlands, destroyer of Krodor
Roosevelt-C: Disembodied brain in an armored Tesla robot
Further Roosevelts are possible. Roosevelt-95, New York City Police Commissioner and scourge of the underworld; Roosevelt-D, Reptilian Progressive; Roosevelt-90, obsessive lovesick romantic and Roosevelt-13, explorer, scientist and conqueror of the River of Doubt, are all good possibilities. Feel free to make up your own.
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Posted by Jason on March 18th, 2010 — in Check this out dude, Design, Playtest
Me and Matthijs Holter wrote a game! It’s called Love in the Time of Seið and it is pretty neat – sort of a quick-play hack of Matthijs’ game Archipelago II, which I well and truly adore. This is a super-focused version that provides characters, situation, and fun kickers, as well as semi-scripted events. You can play through it in a fun evening of sex, deception, and saga-style tragedy. If you’d like to playtest, drop Matthijs a note at matthijs1000 (at) hotmail (dot) com – we’d like your input.
Also: Seið, in case you aren’t up to speed on Old Norse. My favorite character is the Seiðkona, who has a lot to answer for.
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Posted by Jason on January 14th, 2010 — in Design, Medical Hospital
Mark Leyner fans rejoice! I’ve decided to focus my efforts on the abdomen for Medical Hospital. Other cool sets of procedures will come later, but the abdomen is totally disgusting and offers a lot of variety. Here’s the list:
CLASS C
LYSIS OF ADHESIONS
TRADITIONAL OPEN APPENDECTOMY
PERITONEOVENOUS SHUNT
UMBILICAL HERNIORRHAPHY
GASTROSTOMY
INGUINAL HERNIA REPAIR
CLASS B
ANTRECTOMY/VAGOTOMY; OR PEPTIC ULCER GASTRECTOMY/ VAGOTOMY
SPLENECTOMY (PARTIAL OR TOTAL)
ANTERIOR ADRENALECTOMY
PYLOROPLASTY/VAGOTOMY
SMALL BOWEL RESECTION
MECKEL’S DIVERTICULECTOMY
CLASS A
ADENOCARCINOMA GASTRECTOMY
HEPATECTOMY (PARTIAL OR TOTAL)
ORTHOTOPIC HEPATIC TRANSPLANT
BILLROTH 1 GASTRODUODENOSTOMY
So 16 Procedures, most of them in the gut, two with stuff going on in the neck as well. This is a really good way to focus my efforts, and the trauma cases will still be grisly whole body affairs. I’ll add a Class A dealing with the pancreas but I don’t have one yet.
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Posted by Jason on November 25th, 2009 — in Cowboys With Big Hearts, Design
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.
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Posted by Jason on November 19th, 2009 — in Check this out dude, Cowboys With Big Hearts, Design
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.
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