Thursday, May 5, 2011

Continuing Free Low-Tech Service Delivery

Hello to those who still manage to find this blog. Sorry but I will not able to update this regularly. All GM tools i will be developing related to Low-Tech worlds and setting (defaulting to Historical and Non-Fantasy Fiction) will be part of my own Add-on GURPS Low Tech Worlds book.

The Books' Current Charter:
In order to achieve the goals of the document, there will be material and tools GMs can easily draw from to populate and develop their Low-Tech worlds. These materials should be able to allow them to provide rich details that take very little time to develop, which are impartial through the use of die rolls, and allow games to escalate natural from micro to macro scopes.

The material will include Character templates of various professions and archetypes common across a wide variety of spectrum of eras and culture. Some of these character templates will also have Economic Templates, like sample assets, like Load Outs (combat load and marching load), domestic assets, and some will have House-hold income statements that give a more detailed look of economic and political relationships. Other than equipment, sample infrastructure can now be created using GURPS 4E Low Tech Companion 1: Kings and Philosophers p.15 Building Monuments to LTC2 Fortifications and LTC3 Buildings and Architecture.

The tools should also have notes on how they are to be used. It should take in to consideration weekly budgets for GM preparations by giving sample schedules in Personal Timeboxing format. It also should give notes regarding how players can participate in the game preparation, increasing the shared game investment to a point where all have a stronger stake in making the game work.

Basically it is a shared content book that is meant to maximize and provide the most usefull examples and tools for Low Tech world building and adventure planning.