LeftOvers Booklet Posted


LeftOvers Initial Post

Hey, all! I just posted the 7-page starting booklet for LeftOvers. Currently, it's a lot of the same as the source material mechanically, but at this point, I've made some (small) changes so far:

  • Bots can get hit now! While I firmly believe that this system is NOT for fighting, I also believe that my players ran into a pack of hungry bears with a barista bot full of bacon, egg, and cheese sandwiches in the party. Now, bots can take a few hits before their core gets ejected from their chassis. They then either can use the help of their friends to repair their old chassis or perhaps find/build a new one!
  • 3 RAM instead of 2: I may go back on this one, but I found that rebooting just didn't happen often with my players in the sessions we played, so an extra bit of RAM might be good. However, I'm also feeling that struggling against the While Loop is good and thematic, so we'll see about that.
  • A bit of theme shifting to be more laser-focused on telling stories about defying the status quo and choosing love against your own nature. Protocols are now changed to Exceptions, where "human" behavior is seen as unexpected and gets a bot closer and closer to erroring their way out of the While Loop
  • Explicitly mentioning death??? Obviously, a one-page rpg wouldn't go into the topic of death and dying, but I felt it was important to mention for the theme. The beauty of living is that it ends one day, and I didn't want newfound freedom to be felt as frivolous and infinite. 
  • More handholding: I found that my players all needed some explaining during bot creation, so I added more explanation and examples to every part of the sheet.


What's Next

  • I might want to look at the dice results table and modify it slightly. I also need to include it in the book.
  • Setting Guide for Pebble, Colorado: Pebble is a growing farmstead settlement of bots just outside the city of Boulder, full of all sorts of colorful characters. I was really proud of the epilogue of our SR campaign and want to document its setting, characters, and plot hooks for others who pick up this system. 
  • ...probably other stuff, but I'm not quite sure what yet! Feel free to let me know if you have any suggestions :)

- Nate

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Nov 17, 2023

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