The Independent Insurgency

03:01 pm - [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.”

11:58 pm - [Misspent Youth] First draft fully completed

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

08:49 pm - [Misspent Youth] Attention proofreaders!

I've had several offers by kindly people to proofread Misspent Youth. Well, I'm almost done with my initial pass and I'd like to take those people up on their offers. If you'd like, just email me at my gmail account, which is at rob dot bohl.

And thanks!

10:09 pm - [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.

07:35 pm - [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

05:39 pm - [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.

03:27 pm - [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

09:58 pm - [Misspent Youth] Chapter word counts

I noticed Office 7 has this nice tool that tells you on the bottom banner how many words you've got. Here're the stats for Misspent Youth:

Introduction: 405
Authority/World creation: 1989
Character creation: 1196
Episode structure: 1192 (so far, I'm only part way done with describing the rules for one of the 7 scenes the game has)