Would you play Cosmic Hellcats the Role Playing Game?
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I had this idea a while back to make a Cosmic Hellcats RPG, probably based on the d20 system. I worked on some basics for like one night and then never touched it again, but for some strange reason today I just feel the urge to do it again. I don’t even know if people would want such a thing. But it’s just totally stuck in my head. Maybe a lot of it is just me wanting to flesh out the mechanics of the Hellcats Universe a little farther. Or maybe I’m just feeling particularly geeky. I dunno. I’m in into it.
You know, because like the other 1 million things I’m working on aren’t sucking up enough of my life.
Anyway, the question is, would other people actually be interested in such a thing? And if I were to do it, how involved would it need to be. Does a roll-your-own RPG need to be complete and full featured (meaning would I have to have a big huge thing like d20 Modern or Dungeons and Dragons), or do people get the basic concept of d20 and having a small pamphlet like my favorite role playing game, the original Macho Women With Guns (which frankly might be good enough to be a Hellcats game in and of itself). How detailed would people want it to be? What types of characters and mechanics should be covered? Would anyone ever actually even play such a game?
Does it need to be a print book or would it be cool to be a digital book for Kindles and iPads? (maybe the whole iPad iBooks stuff that came out yesterday is what has me thinking about this in the first place).
And of course, are you willing to wait around for years til I actually get around to finishing such a thing? (Like Katt and Dawg, which I posted about earlier, and which I swear, I’ll have done soon… really… I totally will… honest engine!)
What do you think?
-Mav
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It sounds intresting. with a few tweaks you could probably just write it as an add-on type for the D20 without too much trouble.
yeah, that’s pretty much my thought. I tossed together a list of basic character races and how I’d want the standard stats to work, but that’s as far as I got.
What I would suggest as far as distribution: Go ahead and have a free version (pdf, epub, something), but offer printed copies with extra artwork. It would fairly easy, really. If you consider that the images in an epub are low quality (and you can specify low quality when creating PDFs), this could be an option.
thanks… so is that to say you’d be interested in seeing such a thing? Also, I believe this is your first post to Hellcats. We hope you are enjoying the strip.
I’d definitely be interested in seeing such a thing. And, yes, it’s my first post to Hellcats. I first became interested when I met Brittany at Pittsburgh Comicon 2011. Keep up the good work!
Now if only I had time to work on such things.
thanks. We’ll be there this year again, I believe. Hopefully with the year 4 comic (what you’re reading now) as well as a print only comic I’m almost finished with starring Katt & Dawg.
Somehow I missed this earlier. I not only would be interested in said product and/or service, but I’d be up for playtesting this if you ever got to that stage.