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Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: QOTD JUL 4: Have you ever created your own rpg system? What was unique about it?
Posted: Sat, 04 Jul 16:01:58
Posted: Sat, 04 Jul 16:01:58
by sdonohue
I've created several RPGs for contests here, but I'm not sure I'd call any of them systems.
Reply: The Tavern:: Re: Tavern Game - Why the Person Above Me Should be Banned (part II)
Posted: Sat, 04 Jul 15:58:28
Posted: Sat, 04 Jul 15:58:28
by notafish
Banned for driving a Yugo in 2026!
GeekList Item: Item for GeekList "The Between: A Study in Sapphire - Hunters & Threats"
Posted: Sat, 04 Jul 15:57:22
Posted: Sat, 04 Jul 15:57:22
by Zolani
An item RPG Item: Rose of Judgement has been added to the geeklist The Between: A Study in Sapphire - Hunters & Threats
Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: QOTD JUL 3: If RPG systems were martial art styles, which would be which. And why?
Posted: Sat, 04 Jul 15:52:40
This post is beautiful 🙂
Thank you! I didn't click on it upon first read, but your reply got me curious enough to check it out. 😂
Posted: Sat, 04 Jul 15:52:40
by jjwhite103
Happy2BHere wrote:
shiva666 wrote:
D&D is brawling, the kind everyone does most of the time.
Even seasoned martial artists will fall down back into it.

Risus the anything rpg does one thing again and again like this style:
Youtube Video
solo rpgs are all kata like taebo.
Even seasoned martial artists will fall down back into it.

Risus the anything rpg does one thing again and again like this style:
Youtube Video
solo rpgs are all kata like taebo.
This post is beautiful 🙂
Thank you! I didn't click on it upon first read, but your reply got me curious enough to check it out. 😂
Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: QOTD JUL 4: Have you ever created your own rpg system? What was unique about it?
Posted: Sat, 04 Jul 15:52:06
Unique? Not much. I think they were all frankensteins taking elements that I liked from other rpgs and mashing them together. In other words, dreck.
Posted: Sat, 04 Jul 15:52:06
by brumcg
I recall 3-4 different efforts.Unique? Not much. I think they were all frankensteins taking elements that I liked from other rpgs and mashing them together. In other words, dreck.
GeekList Item: Item for GeekList "Solo RPGs On Your Table - July 2026"
Posted: Sat, 04 Jul 15:44:11
Posted: Sat, 04 Jul 15:44:11
by Brass Jester
An item RPG Item: 13th Age Second Edition: Gamemaster's Guide has been added to the geeklist Solo RPGs On Your Table - July 2026
Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: QOTD JUL 4: Have you ever created your own rpg system? What was unique about it?
Posted: Sat, 04 Jul 15:33:46
Posted: Sat, 04 Jul 15:33:46
A couple that I'd call sketches but nothing to the point I'd want to share them with the world outside of the context of a jam (which they weren't created in), and I'm not sure either are worth pursuing further
GeekList Item: Item for GeekList "2026 Challenge: 26 un(der)played in 26"
Posted: Sat, 04 Jul 15:23:53
Posted: Sat, 04 Jul 15:23:53
by troacctid
An item GeekList: 2026 Challenge: 26 un(der)played in 26 has been added to the geeklist 2026 Challenge: 26 un(der)played in 26
Reply: RPGGeek Suggestions:: Re: This Week In Geek History - Discussion
Posted: Sat, 04 Jul 15:19:47
Did you know that the 2nd, 3rd & 5th US Presidents died on the 4th of July? John Adams [microbadge=13695] & Thomas Jefferson [microbadge=13699] in 1826 & James Monroe in 1831
July 5
July 6
b]July 7
July 8
Everything seemed geeky enough.
July 9
July 10
Posted: Sat, 04 Jul 15:19:47
by sdonohue
July 41847- Circus operator James Bailey ( Barnum & Bailey Circus) [microbadge=16569]
Did you know that the 2nd, 3rd & 5th US Presidents died on the 4th of July? John Adams [microbadge=13695] & Thomas Jefferson [microbadge=13699] in 1826 & James Monroe in 1831
July 5
1801- David "damn the torpedoes!" Farragut, First U.S. Navy admiral [microbadge=842]
1810- Showman P.T. Barnum (Barnum & Bailey Circus) [microbadge=16569]
1996- Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell [microbadge=23447]
July 6
1747- John Paul "I have not yet begun to fight" Jones, 'father' of the U.S. Navy [microbadge=842]
1887- Painter Marc Chagall [microbadge=8265]
1925- TV personality Merv Griffin [microbadge=15425]
1935- 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso [microbadge=10087]
b]July 7
1940- Beatles drummer Ringo Starr [microbadge=6039]
1969- NHL center Joe Sakic [microbadge=886]
July 8
Everything seemed geeky enough.
July 9
1762- Catherine the Great becomes Empress of Russia following the coup against her husband, Peter III [microbadge=31332]
1819- Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine [microbadge=3856]
1937- Silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed in a fire [microbadge=49970]
2011- South Sudan becomes independent from Sudan [microbadge=10248]
July 10
1509- Theologian John Calvin [microbadge=9130]
1913- Death Valley hits 134F, 56.7C, world's highest recorded temp [microbadge=13583]
1940- Battle of Britain begins [microbadge=40455]
1942- Heavy Metalist Ronnie James Dio [microbadge=2535]
This Week in Geek History July 4 - 10, 2026
Posted: Sat, 04 Jul 15:16:43
July 4
July 5
July 6
b]July 7
July 8
July 9
July 10
I'm sure this list can be improved. Feel free to offer suggestions for this and upcoming weeks. If you want your birthday included just add it to this geeklist: RPG Geek Birthday List
Posted: Sat, 04 Jul 15:16:43
by Steve
July 4
1776- American Independence Day [microbadge=3488]
1804- Author Nathaniel Hawthorne [microbadge=28102]
1855- Whitman's Leaves of Grass published [microbadge=9597]
1865- Carroll's Alice in Wonderland published [microbadge=35373]
July 5
1927- Actress Janet Leigh [microbadge=3835]
1937- SPAM debuts! [microbadge=9258]
1958- Bill Watterson [microbadge=29573], creator of Calvin [microbadge=1455] and Hobbes [microbadge=1456]
????- RPGG Fixture quozl
July 6
1946- Actor Sylvester Stallone [microbadge=3936]
1957- John Lennon (16) [microbadge=6036] & Paul McCartney (15) [microbadge=6037] meet for the 1st time
1989- For one second, the time is 01:23:45, 6-7-89 [microbadge=44233]
????- RPG Enthusiast dysjunct
b]July 7
1906- Baseball pitcher Leroy "Satchel" Paige [microbadge=11849]
1907- Science Fiction Author Robert A. Heinlein [microbadge=8181]
1928- Sliced bread sold for the 1st time [microbadge=41379] "That's the best thing to come along since, well, um...in 95 years!"
1931- Fantasy/Sci-Fi Author David Eddings [microbadge=33979]
1949- Actress Shelley Duvall [microbadge=21391]
July 8
1838- Dirigible inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin [microbadge=13135]
1934- Comedian Marty Feldman [microbadge=30101] [microbadge=33508] [microbadge=33509]
1951- Actress Anjelica Huston [microbadge=4077]
1958- Actor Kevin "Thank you sir may I have another" Bacon [microbadge=14109]
????- RPG Enthusiast Kris Van Beurden (aka Tegarend)
July 9
1956- Actor Tom Hanks [microbadge=20542]
1976- busdjur The Other Jessica
1983- Queen Toggy (aka Toggy) [microbadge=17410] [microbadge=21994]
????- RPGG user derf_red
July 10
1040- Lady Godiva takes her famous ride for tax reform [microbadge=12092]
1856- Nikola Tesla [microbadge=9694]
1920- TV news anchor and commentator David Brinkley [microbadge=5884]
1947- Folk singer Arlo Guthrie [microbadge=26876]
I'm sure this list can be improved. Feel free to offer suggestions for this and upcoming weeks. If you want your birthday included just add it to this geeklist: RPG Geek Birthday List
Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: QOTD JUL 4: Have you ever created your own rpg system? What was unique about it?
Posted: Sat, 04 Jul 15:11:41
Hi-
Sort of... working on one where the players are gods of various sorts... but it hasn't progressed much beyond that...
And I'm noodling about with turning a card game (a version of Card Capture) into a 'quest' game... I've already redone the game into an election game, so I just need to put some time/effort into it.
Posted: Sat, 04 Jul 15:11:41
by govmiller
pdzoch wrote:
A question suggested by [user=Inkwan][/user]
Have you ever created your own rpg system? What was unique about it?
Have you ever created your own rpg system? What was unique about it?
Hi-
Sort of... working on one where the players are gods of various sorts... but it hasn't progressed much beyond that...
And I'm noodling about with turning a card game (a version of Card Capture) into a 'quest' game... I've already redone the game into an election game, so I just need to put some time/effort into it.


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