This is a big topic, but we have a truly massive amount of stuff planned if there is enough interest. There are a few tiers of releases that we're contemplating, depending on how things go.nemedeus wrote:You're making me very excited here, Agamemnon.Agamemnon wrote: If all goes according to plan, the next release should have at the least: Melee, Ranged, Skirmish, Wounds & Healing, Encumbrance, and the Wound Charts.
After that, we want to get in as many of the fiddly bits as we're going to bother with for the sake of beta -- Connections rolls, Social conflicts, etc. Then we get to go into PR mode.
A we are talking about subsystems, said other guy asked about other systems such as naval combat which you all but confirmed already of course, but also a siege module. Could you give us a quick rundown of the modules you're planning to work on at some point?
Btw, i love the change to the Draw Cut property.
For the Beta to be complete, we plan the following:
- Melee, Ranged Combat and Skirmish stuff
- Advanced Melee (this will be released in stages -- the full maneuvers list first, then the emphases later simply because we want to make sure the default stuff all works and is balanced before we reintroduce emphases which can potentially screw up said balance.
- Connections rolls and introducing NPCs
- Support for specific applications of basic conflicts - Knowledge rolls, social conflicts, simple combat
- Wounds & Healing
- Encumbrance
- Wound tables
- Glossary
After that, we're going to develop stuff out depending on the amount of interest shown in it. As much as I enjoy developing this stuff, I'm working this game like it's a full time job on top of my actual full-time employment. At a certain point, if I'm going to keep putting hours into this, I need to get something out of it. Not because I really care about turning a profit so much as health and sanity demands that I start cutting down the amount of time I spend working in front of a computer. If I'm going to spend 20 hours developing stuff for Scoundrel, I need to be able to take some hours off of my freelance work. On top of that, we need to recoup hosting expenses, etc.
So depending on how kickstarter goes, we have a ton of extra stuff that's already in some level of completion:
- A huge magic system, complete with information on crafting magical artifacts, incentives for players to keep their own spellbooks, etc, all flavored somewhere between folklore, occult, and a touch of lovecraft.
- A full social combat system, to let socially-based characters have the same kind of involvement as more traditional combatants.
- Survival and general "Adventuring" rules, covering everything you need for exploration and scarcity-based adventuring (dehydration, exposure, fatigue, frostbite, etc).
- A huge pharmacopoeia section covering everything from period drugs and alcohols to poisons, diseases, and so forth. We actually have a ton of notes and an independent researcher on this one with a background in such things. We might wind up making this its own book, at the rate that it is coming together.
- A section on psychology, including morale for NPCs, horror, and sanity mechanics that mesh well with the drives system and our general players-as-protagonist philosophy
- A full Factions system, treating factions as characters with their own attributes, skills, and traits. This further elaborates into a mass combat system with sieges and so forth.
- A complete NPC section and Bestiary, with rules for all the usual suspects - undead, fighting giant monsters, etc, as well as rules on how to create new monsters and so forth.
- A huge GM section that goes into everything from campaign creation and session zero, to how to get the most out of drives/traits/etc.. making protagonists, pacing the game, commentary on how to use different mechanics to get different effects, and how to customize/hack the mechanics themselves. My notes in this section are easily the largest single section in the game.
- The naval book is the first one on this list, because making a proper nautical supplement is going to be a huge task just from the research alone. We'll dress this up with an Age of Sail setting as well as giving some rules to make it appropriate for everything from Pirates of the Caribbean to The Three Musketeers
- A traditional Elves & Dwarves book with some twists that will serve to both give us some alternate-flavored magic systems and the ability to incorporate non-human races easily into a game.
One day, on the far horizon, if we wound up being extremely successful, we also have notes on an eventual sci-fi/modern edition of the rules to do everything from space opera and cyberpunk to post apocalyptic modern zombie fiction.
There are a ton of things we have as potential plans, but it all really depends on the level of interest and support we get for this stuff.
