How do I make an RPG?
Make a bunch of rules and put them in a PDF.
>>43854817
Read up on the subject. Study other RPGs. Play loads of different systems and pay attention to how they work.
>>43854817
There are plenty of good RPGs already. Just use one of those.
>>43854817
Don't ask /tg/. We couldn't make a sandwich in a burger joint.
>>43854817
There's kind of a general for this sort of thing.
>>>/tg/hbg
>>43855811
Isn't that just a massive circle jerk about fantasy heartbreakers?
>>43854817
If you don't know how then you're not ready to do it well.
Unless you just want to make a setting?
>Brainstorm your ideas for the system
>Convert these into rough-draft rules
>Try to run a session with those rules
>Take notes on all the houserulings and fiats you make
>Ask for feedback
>Tweak rules according to feedback and notes
>goto 3
It will likely produce a lot of kludgey solutions and hackish results, but with each iteration of playtesting it will get more refined.
Make sure you recruit new playtesters, at first players and then GMs as the project gains momentum. That way you'll get a larger sample size and avoid exhausting your poor buddies. Clubs and FLGSs are good places to look for testers.
>>43857640
If you want to release the game, add:
* Create rough draft with what topics you want in text
Having new playtesters also helps with people catching things you never actually explained that you or your players took for granted.
>>43856094
No?
>>43854817
>Learn Russian
>Develop a crippling alcohol addiction
>Develop a deep seated Hatred towards the Filthy Germans. (FILTH NAZI GERMAN PIG DOG AUGUST 23 1942 WORST DAY OF MY LIFE)
>Develop a hatred of all things Chechen (REMOVE CHECHEN CHECHNYA TRUE RUSSIAN CLAY FEBRUARY 23 1944 BEST DAY OF LIFE)
>Make RPG.
>>43854835
You don't need a lot. Just some.
Bare minimum I'd say is some way to have everyone start roughly equal that can then be built on.
>>43859000
I have 3/4. How hard is Russian to learn?
>>43857640
What's a fiat?
In my opinion the best games are made by people who understand things other than games. A martial artist is likely to have more interesting ideas about fighting than a guy who's only experience of combat is D&D.
So my advice is to get some serious knowledge or life experience. Write what you know, but first make sure what you know is worth writing about.
>>43860442
It's a car.
They are okay, I guess.
>>43860498
They're pretty great, actually. It's like driving a cheerful go-kart.
>>43860677
>a cheerful go-kart. As opposed to all those depressing, mournful go-karts?
Don't mind me.
I'm just cranky that >>43859000 did a better job of doing what I came here for than I would have.
>>43856094
>hbg
>just a circlejerk of fantasy heartbreakers
>a circlejerk
>just fantasy heartbreaker
>no really I've even looked at a post from there once
>>43860950
>>a cheerful go-kart. As opposed to all those depressing, mournful go-karts?
The last go-kart I was in obviously hadn't wanted to show up to work that day.
>>43854817
Carefully.
Put grenade on rocket
>>43860442
Its stands for "Found On Road Dead", hyeh.
>>43861713
>Found On Road Dead
>FORD
Wrong acronym.
>>43861755
>>43854817
Te absolutely first thing you need to do is figure out what your rpg will do that other rpgs don't.
There are one bajillion rpgs and there is every chance that your ideas have been used multiple times already. Read a fuckton of rpgs. Read reviews, blogs, anything.
Have SOME idea of what the point of making yours is. It doesn't have to totally blow everyone's mind, it's perfectly fine to have your goal be something like "makes a rules light system that doesn't look like ass" or "have better combat than that other game", but it can't be "Iunno, I just wanted to do it myself because my ego chafes when I play other peoples games".
Oh, and read this:
>>43860442
Fiat is a legal term meaning a formal decree or order, usually used uncountably (e.g. "regulated by fiat"). Fiat money, for example, is money like the modern US dollar, which has value because the government says so, as opposed to being tied to the value of a particular commodity like the old gold standard US dollar.
In the context of gaming, "GM fiat" refers to the GM overriding the rules to sort out a particularly thorny edge case or to keep That Guy under control.
Fiat is also a car brand I guess
>>43854817
Damn it Steve Jackson, why not try reading a book about it?
>>43857640
this desu senpai
A week of this is worth a year of theorycrafting
>>43861755
I own an F-150. Can confirm, it's been nothing but a hassle since I bought it. Should've gotten a GMC or Dodge.
>>43854817
Ask Virt/buck/craig. They certainly know. Pretty sure it involves banning women and children though.
>>43854817
1. Have internet
2. Be smart and creative
You're halfway there, OP!
>>43855391
Dont offload him there. The BLM protesters will go full nigga on him too.
