Young Washington and 1753

I saw Young Washington last weekend and absolutely loved it. If you know me, you know the Revolutionary War era is my favorite time period. I have always felt that part of our amazing history - a critical moment in all of human history - is sadly swept under the rug in modern America and ignored in the media. We so rarely see any media cover the amazing period. For me, the film is a welcome breath of fresh air. The fact that the movie was actually good is just icing on the cake.

Anywho, the film got me thinking, and I have always wanted to create what I call a 'Setting Toolkit' for Arneson Gaming, a quick one- or two-page document that you could pick up and give you enough tools to jump right into a unique campaign. So, with a few days off (our plant is weirdly shut down every day this week except Friday) I decided to throw something together. My hope is that you could grab this, create a character, get inspired, and drop into a game quickly and easily.  Does it work? No idea, but it was fun creating this. 

When it is finished, I will toss this on my itch.io page.

Arneson Gaming - character cards?

 

A friend is doing some solo playtesting of AG and it got me thinking maybe I should take up AG again and do a little solo. Of course, I need pretty little things to make it fun for me so I made up some character cards for characters. Not sure these will work, but it is a good start. Two fit on a 4x6 index card, which I love because it adds some firmness to the paper and does not flop around as much on me.

Arneson Gaming - on your phone

 

I took a moment today to finish up a small project I worked on over the summer, a slim, phone sized PDF of the AG rules. Nothing major, just a reformatting so you can carry the slim rules around you where ever you go and ready to play at a moments notice.

Arneson Gaming - phone version

Wyllow & Brannoc, session 0 (Arneson Gaming)

Playing around and doing some playtesting of the AG rules, whipped up (rather quickly) some basic fantasy types to go on a little adventure. I used some random tables I came up with to serve as a 'kit' to get a jump start on creating an interesting character and 'rolled' up two characters. I figure with this little bit of information I should be able to run a full game. Let's see how this goes...

Arneson Gaming, revisited?

Well, I have been rummaging around for about six months, trying out various things, new systems, anything to get my creative juices flowing again and I stumbled upon that little gem on my Google Drive that I wrote nearly a decade ago and, well, it sort of would not get out of my head. So, screw it, 

I am working on some more details, creating a phone version of the PDF for easy use while mobile. I am also thinking about some 'kits' for different genres of gaming such as fantasy, scifi, Gothic Noir, post-apoc, etc. Not sure yet, but we will see where this goes.

Arneson Gaming

 

For whatever reason, this little game I wrote has suddenly become of interest around the world. Creators has translated the game into Portuguese, Czech, Italian, and now French!

Check it out here: https://mattjackson.itch.io/arneson-gaming

Arneson Gaming

I guess FKR is suddenly cool because some dude named Ben started talking about it, now the little kiddos are fawning all over it. Welcome, we have been here for quite a while.

I made this (oddly) on September 11, 2019 and I honestly cannot recall if I shared it or not. I have uploaded it to itch so you can have it stored in your 'library'. This was my attempt to create something a modern player might accept that is still close to what Dave played. 

So yeah, this probably isn't even close.

Check it out here: https://mattjackson.itch.io/arneson-gaming

Go watch Secrets of Blackmoor, might learn a thing or two.