Feedback request: I think I'm ready to share this now.

Feedback Request

So I've been working on this project here and there, on and off, mostly off, for about 20 months now, and I think it's about time I start seeking feedback on what I've got from some like minded folks.

It's an RPG where all of the characters are robots and their health is their body parts so when you take damage to, lets say your arm, well you can't use that arm anymore because it's damaged. Or maybe it's only damaged a little bit and you still have some working components in there. And I feel like I've found a nice way to represent that idea on a paper character sheet.

As 20 months might suggest the idea has bloated quite a bit since then, like a 6000 word rules doc and 7000 words in short stories written in setting, but at the start of 2018 I decided to make a lite version that drops all of the things that I wanted to do to make it a fully functioning all encompassing bonafide pen and paper table top role playing game, and focuses on simply explaining the core mechanic as I envision it to work.

I am somewhat hesitant to share it because the system as shown in this lite version asks alot of the reader/player and I feel like that might be a mistake, but I like it how it works. The system is all about creativity; building a cool unique robot that can do cool unique things, but this lite version is lite on examples and I feel like that might make it hard to understand.

Without further dilly-dallying, here's the google drive document for the lite version of my game system: HEAT (it's about 3000 words all in all <3)

The main feedback I'd love to hear from anyone willing to read it through, is based on reading this how prepared do you think you would be to jump into using the game, and what additions and clarifications you think might improve that experience.

Oh and of course I'll do my best to follow the subs suggestion for feedback exchange :)

Posted Jul 26, 2018, 8:42 PM UTC · edited

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