Jon Hancock

Reading the Wardens of the Blue Rose quickstart PDF (link to free download: https://freeronin.com/sage-rpg/SAGE-Wardens-Blue-Rose-Quickstart.zip). I've found one nonsense sentence, but no other obvious errata so far. Nice layout—very clear and easy to read on a tablet screen—and the simplified AGE system looks pretty decent, still retaining elements such as the Drama Die and Stunts to add a bit of flavour to the mechanics.

It says it's also a solo game, although I'm unconvinced: seems to be solo in the same way that "Double Adventure 4: Marooned Alone" for Traveller was solo, i.e. a GM adventure you play through as if you're making all the decisions and GMing judgements, which is hardly a satisfying pursuit. Still, ignoring that (which is extremely easy to do), the game looks good, benefiting from the Blue Rose setting. I can't imagine wanting to run or play it exactly as presented (the setup is that PCs are young adults, which I would have baulked at even when I was a young adult), but there's plenty here to like.

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May 8 at 6:21pmWeb
Show threadRoger BW 😷May 8
@BigJackBrass Playing young and stupid people in love when you are yourself young and stupid: embarrassing. Playing young and stupid people in love when you are yourself old and slightly less stupid: embarrassing and faintly creepy.
Show threadJon HancockMay 8
@RogerBW Definitely. There's plenty of interest in the (free!) PDF aside from that part, at least, although you'd either need to adapt it to your own setting or add more from the main Blue Rose RPG. I mainly wanted to look at this to see how they planned to use the SAGE rules in an actual focused game.
Show threadRoger BW 😷May 8
@BigJackBrass Absolutely, and I'm looking through it. I was just surprised by my aversion to the specific setting — of course they aren't marketing it at me, and they shouldn't be — and wondering whether it would appeal more to a different audience.
Show threadJon HancockMay 8
@RogerBW I do think that the way the rules are described and introduced makes it all feel as though it's aimed at new and younger gamers, yet it gives me the impression that only more experienced players would easily learn it as presented. How many novice gamers are likely to start by picking up a Green Ronin RPG anyway, I wonder?