Preliminary Notes

Here's the product plan from my notes:

Title: Universe 6
Subtitle: The World of the Modern Fantastic
Handout: Base Powers List
Feature: Powers rules
Augmentary feature: Weird Science
Card Game Notes: Powers
Card Game Notes: NPC catalog
Card Game Notes: Membership Card Motif
Universe: U6 - Minneapolis
Dynamic background: Super-Heroes vs. Super-Villains
Notes: Interleaved with my Costumentality Webcomic

• In play, the game can address 'might makes right,' or 'be careful what you wish for.'
• The Metaphor is superficially Freudian: Secret ID = Ego, Villain = Id, Hero = Superego.
• The message can delve into justice or fairness.

Starting Over

Here we are again. Starting another game book.

I guess, ultimately, I couldn't do The Unseen without making it a LARP. And unfortunately, I don't have the resources to playtest a huge monster like that right now.

Since I don't have the huge amounts of time it takes to cook up 'feature mechanix' for a lesser-worked-on core book, it looks like we're doin' superheroes!

Let's lay down some base rules

1. Much as I'd like to host this on my site, again, I haven't the time.
2. I liked the way The Unseen blog was set up in chapters, but it looked goofy moving parts around, so I'll just expand as I go.
3. Each section will evolve however it wants to.
4. I'm re-architecting the core assumptions of the mechanix: fruitful void and complication focus.

Next, I'll try to vaguely lay out a complication-based, fruitful-void structure. Soon, I'll go into what the metaphors and symbolisms.