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Audio Drama Role Playing Game

Philip Robotham Philip Robotham
Overview
Curriculum
  • 4 Sections
  • 47 Lessons
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Players' Guide
19 Lessons
  1. What is Role Playing?
  2. Preparation for Play
  3. Creating a Character Part 1 - Introduction and Character Sheet
  4. Creating a Character Part 2 – Specialities, Archetypes, Base Attributes and Derived Attributes
  5. Creating a Character Part 3 – Character background and history
  6. Creating a Character Part 4 – Character skills and equipment (including weapons, vehicles, and specialist gear)
  7. Creating a Character Part 5 – Special items and abilities (including gadgeteering, weird science, and magic)
  8. Creating a Character Part 6 – Special conditions effecting characters (including illness and injury, insanity, mutation, mechanization, undeath, disembodiment, reanimation, , vampirism, lycanthropy, and necrophagy)
  9. Getting Things Done Part 1 – Skill types and skill ranks
  10. Getting Things Done – Part 2 – Consequence tests, perception, contests, special skills and abilities, hero points and skill advancement
  11. Combat – Part 1 – Melee and ranged combat, combat actions, the combat board, and a combat cheat sheet
  12. Combat – Part 2 – Print and play components
  13. Combat Part 3 – Physical combat (melee and ranged combat) example
  14. Combat – Part 4 – Magical combat example
  15. Combat – Part 5 – Vehicular combat example, injury, and recovery
  16. Chases – Part 1 – Chases and chase actions
  17. Chases – Part 2 – Chase example
  18. Death-traps, hazards, and puzzles
  19. Victory and death – Heroic deaths, cheating the odds, plot devices, experience and advancement
GMs' Guide
9 Lessons
  1. The Job of the GM (gathering a table, player types, and ensuring fun)
  2. Preliminaries (the three fundamental skills, and your first session)
  3. Advanced skills – Part 1 (the opening scene and narration)
  4. Advanced skills – Part 2 (querying and adjudication)
  5. Advanced skills – Part 3 (resolving actions, managing tropes, transitioning, concluding, and preparing future sessions)
  6. Managing the Mini-Games (combat, chases, and social actions)
  7. Maintaining Pace and Tone (managing time and policing the tone)
  8. Improvising (improvising the story and the rules – for all the times the players do something unexpected)
  9. Getting Feedback and Conclusion (improving your game)
Designers' Guide
9 Lessons
  1. Scene Design
  2. NPC, Monster, Faction, and Villain Design
  3. Dilemmas, Obstacles, Exits, and Clues
  4. Plot (scenario, sandbox, critical path, and the interaction between story and choice)
  5. Structures: The five-room dungeon (and variations)
  6. Structures: The sandbox (the town or city)
  7. Structures: The sandbox (the wilderness)
  8. Structures: The Scenario
  9. Structures: The Campaign
World Book
10 Lessons
  1. World Events and Timeline
  2. Gear, Equipment, Arms, and Armament
  3. Grimoire, Weird Science, and Powers
  4. Eldritch, Steam, and Space Age Tech
  5. Vehicles (land, sea, air, and space)
  6. Famous Personages (of Fact and Fiction)
  7. Mysterious Places and Events
  8. Conspiracies and Cabals
  9. Bestiary of Monsters, Creatures, and Aliens
  10. The Farthest Realms (of Time and Space) - the past, the planets, other dimensions, other galaxies

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