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First Draft of Company RPG Scenario Down, Electronic Alpha of Fantasy GM Squared To Go

Man, what to write this week? I missed Craft Wednesday, and TTRPG Tuesday, and Mechanic Monday.  Maybe I should just do a little checkin though, and plan for the rest of the month.  Sure! Let’s do that.

“The rest of the month” is pretty much non-existent tbh.  Tomorrow is my five(!)-year(!) wedding(!) anniversary(?!), and this weekend doesn’t have a lot of room for design, considering our sexy sexy plans of [grocery shopping, getting COVID tests, and flu shots] and next week we’re driving out to a little airbnb to celebrate, and as a much needed break from work.  So it’s a good thing that I got the first draft of my scenario for The Company RPG in to Logan (forthcoming TTRPG Tuesday post on what got that tied together for a v1.0), but as for my other goal, an Alpha of Fantasy GM Squared, I got screenshots from my collaborators of the prototype components that I’d improvised on the spot, and I’ll need to block out a couple of hours to set those in digital stone (using Microsoft Word to make them lol and then TTS’ deck editor again to import them), and then I’ll have to figure out how to actually share the damn build with people.  Ugh.  At least any work I do making the templates and TTS files carries over.

This is a bit short for an entry, so how about I pad it out by writing through the list of components still to be built?

  • General Components:
    • Five Category Cards
    • Four Scoring Cards
    • Draft Order Card
    • Bonus Draft Coin
    • VP Tokens??
  • Player Components (Five Sets):
    • Three Draft Coins (1st Round, 2nd Round, 3rd Round)
    • Player Board
    • Draft Order Marker

I thiiiink that’s it? Enough to start with anyway.  Anyway that’s all the time I have right now, hopefully I get at least some of this built in Word this weekend.  Catch you next week!

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