Backbone Gaming Guide and Manifest

For the TTRPG nerds in da house (and curious onlookers)

So if you’re running this like a solo role-playing game after a fashion or perhaps a some kind of bizarro campaign setting, I’m here for you, babe!

If you don’t know what that is, watch Deborah from Geek Gamers on da Tube to get a good overview.

I’ve done my best to emulate the Old School Renaissance design principle of keep the rules to a single page. What follows thereafter is just detail; you don’t need it to play.

Now, recall if you will that this is a work in progress that is literally appearing before you eyes. So this post in its current form is little more than a sneak peek of what is to come. A preview, baby. Let mamma know if there’s something else you’d like to see, and I’ll do mah best to hook ya up.

Xoxo,

T

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Rules, guidelines, agreements—whatever you want to call them [1 page exactly; forthcoming]

List of Lists

• Pregenerated player characters, who could be your protagonist

• Non-player characters, who could be supporting cast

• Resource characters, who serve a specific function in the game story world

• Bosses, who could be your antagonists

• Groups of troublesome individuals who could be enemy encouters

• Adventure sites, which could be your settings for exciting events

• Sandbox-y hubs, which could provide staging for many stories and adventures

• Resource sites, which could be poetic places and points of interest, rest & recovery

• Multimedia inventory, most prominently the song grimoire

• Spells and magick

• Secrets, which you might think of psychic abilities or psionics

• Weird items, that could have unique and interesting properties

• Deities, Demigods, and other Immortal Beings

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These lists will be continuously updated until the novel-game is complete.

Pregenerated player characters, who could be your protagonist

• Bit (not yet a secretist)

• Buckhorn (secretist)

• Juicy (seasoned secretist)

• Scythia (former secretist)

Non-player characters, who could be supporting cast

• Avan

• Charlee

• Riley

Resource characters, who serve a specific function in the game story world

• Bishop Shelly

• Dagger

• Mall

• Master Cunin

• Master Furrow

• Master Whip

Bosses, who could be your antagonists

• Alithea

• Ashe Stickygum

• Bill the King

• Cade

• Cinda Ashe

• Desi

• Marlowe Harmoni

• Megan Thames

• Oxenberg Rassmuellengeri

Groups of troublesome individuals who could be enemy encouters

• Men of Skin (kina the classic, the retro at this point)

• The Heirloomers

• Snake People (the new hotness)

Adventure sites, which could be your settings for exciting events

• Axon Terminal

• Dat Crim Lo, tho

• Death Cage in Taruma Kivuli

• The Old Crane, On Page Road

Sandbox-y hubs, which could provide staging for many stories and adventures

• Bruno (crossover)

• Bouton (neighbors Soma)

• Dreamwar Corridor

• A Game I Do Not Understand

• The Lost City of Soma

• Mars the planet, c. 1022

• A Microfiction Universe within the Secret of Secrets

• The Shadow Plane of Existence

Resource sites, which could be poetic places and points of interest, rest & recovery

• The Hidden Shrine to Lilamara

• Time Out of Mind

Multimedia inventory, most prominently the song grimoire

Spells and magick

• Prospero’s books

Secrets, which you might think of psychic abilities or psionics

• Ghosting

• Telepathy

Weird items, that could have unique and interesting properties

• Klava’s glove

Deities, Demigods, and other Immortal Beings

• Dwizaal

• Knot

• Lilamara

• Mars

• Nikki

• Onococho