The Adventure Book is a new genre of pen
and paper gaming made for true adventurers. It is an RPG game system
that is meant to be played in public. In the park, in the city, in your
school or at work, it all gets transformed into a fantasy world.
Real-life locations become stores, castles, dungeons etc. and the real
people around you become the NPC's and Monsters. The combat and item
system is designed to run quickly and smoothly and be able to be picked
up by anyone and played in minutes. The system will also support custom
rule sets for different scenarios or locations, giving tons of variety
and re-playability.
The Adventure Book will actually be 4 core books totaling in approx 50-100 pages that are packaged together.
- The Basic Rule Book: Outlines the basics rules for combat, experience, money, locations, etc.
- The Monster Manual: Will have in depth information and tables for
Monster and NPC generation and Monster profiles, and descriptions.
- The Store Book:Contains all of the items, their stats and prices, ordered by where you buy them.
- The Dungeon Guide: Special monster generation pages and rules for when exploring dungeons.
Additionally there will be several expansions/alternate rule
sets that will be released by us and will be easily created and shared
by users. e.g.
- Expert/Alternate Rules Book: Adds more classes, Dungeon types, Level Perks etc.
- Pub Crawl and Brawl Expansion: Rule set to be used wile in a bar,
preferably many. would include new monsters, mini games and more.
- Zombie Expansion: Rules and monsters sets for a zombie Apocalypse (Has several different play modes)
- Pre-Planned/DM expansion: Adds pre-made adventures and the option of a DM instead of using random IRL encounters.
- Office Monster Manual: Would have monster generation rules specific to an office building.
- Genre Rule sets: Rules, items and monsters for different genres such as Sci-Fi, Western, Post Apocalyptic, Steam Punk, ANYTHING!
So far all of the main planning work has
been done, the basic rules and game system have been written, along with a start of the
Monster Manual and most of the Store Book. Early planning for Expert
Rule book and expansions have also started.
The game will be finished and published even if the funding goal isnt met.
The
adventure book has mainly been the work of love by two people and it has
grown to the point where a lot of time by a team of 3-4 people is
needed to finish it, and that requires funding. We need another writer
and or editor to fine tune the written parts and a second illustration
artist to do the Monster Manual. Along with staff we will need to
purchase materials and have test printing done. and of course there is
the cost of the printing and shipping hard copies of the cover
to backers who ordered them.
When we meet/surpass out funding goal of $1000 we will start work on the Advanced Rule book and The expansion packs and perks for them will be added when they are started.