Tale Weaver: Pen and Paper Role Playing System- An introduction

This is an introductory post for what will be a series of posts. I do not know how much all of you will like or appreciate this #taleweaver series, but for me I thought it would also be nice to preserve it on the blockchain. This is OLD. It is pre-Kickstarter, pre-blockchain, and pre-a lot of other things.

Some time back in the early 1990s one of my best friends Jeremy Greene and I were often running various pen and paper role playing game sessions. It was during those college years. We would run them or play in them. One thing we quickly noted is that we were always running games with heavily modified house rules and each of us had our own. We had a fairly big gaming group we hung around with on campus back then so we tried a lot of different systems.

One day Jeremy and I were walking down the streets as we often did and we were discussing the things we liked and didn't like about various game systems. We were mentioning things we would like to see in a role playing system and discussing how we all tended to modify the hell out of all the systems we played.

We suddenly decided "Why don't we make our own?" I know there were other people involved in this initial discussion and some of the early decisions we made, but it primarily ended up being just Jeremy and I. Family members would get involved in play testing, and some family and friends at the time contributed art, etc.

Now we were young, a bit confused about trademarks, copyrights, etc. We were also a tad bit paranoid about such things. We decided maybe we shouldn't use the traditional Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma type attribute names that Dungeons & Dragons introduced. We were worried about being sued. Now many years later there are so many examples of that we likely would have been safe.

We chose Vigor, Agility, Endurance, Acumen, Common Sense, Influence, Wyrd, and Attractiveness. Attractiveness we would consider later not really being a necessary thing as it could simply be an advantage or disadvantage rather than an attribute.

We were not anti-chart as many people may be, but we did want most of what the players needed to be right there on their character sheet and we wanted detail, a lot of options, and flexibility. The Game Master or as we called them the Tale Weaver would of course consult many charts and other things as they ran the game.

We did come up with some unique ideas. It was never completed, but there are large amounts of work into it and some ideas I still have not seen elsewhere. I would like to preserve it. I am going to post a series based upon #taleweaver that will present the rules, notes, art, etc for this game system. My hope is that it may interest some people, and it may illicit conversation.

It may also give some ideas for things people may want to incorporate into whatever games they happen to be running. I know many of my followers may not be interested in this topic, but I am interested in a lot of different things. I did speak with Jeremy Greene and he was fine with me putting Tale Weaver on Steemit. He told me to let him know if it got over $500 and then we might talk splitting the profits.

It will take a bit as these are often in old text formats so I'll have to reformat and write a lot of these, so as far as layout a lot of it will be completely new in appearance.

Also, I did search and I see there is now a Tale Weaver studios. They have no relation to this product. This is something that we began working on more than two decades ago.

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Tale Weaver: Version 0.7 - Multi-Genre Role Playing Game System - Play Tester Release - PART 1
Part 2 - Chapter Two: The Persona

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