Basic and Advanced HiBRiD

As an homage to old school gaming and to make publishing the core rules quick once Gen Con is over, I will be releasing the HiBRiD rules in three volumes.

The first Ara Knochen book currently with the working title of Ara Knochen: Book One will be a rules light version, referred to as "HiBRiD Basic". It will contain:

• Character creation rules that allow the creation of a character in 10 minutes or less.
• A description of both the basic core game mechanic as well as how to direct the action
• A description all the available supernatural and inexplicable standard character powers (referred to in the rules as Aspects)
• An introduction to the campaign setting, including twenty or so character templates that represent the archetypal heroes of the setting.

The second book will contain the more complete HiBRiD rules and will be referred to as HiBRiD Advanced. These rules will be modular such that they may be swapped out with the HiBRiD Basic rules to customize the level of complexity for each gaming group. Some of the additions in this supplement will include:

• A gamut of new playtested aspects as well as a system for designing custom aspects.
• An expansion of the character creation system that allows for more in depth characters. This expansion will not only redefine the original twenty or so templates but add fifteen or twenty more.
• A Director Section for using the HiBRiD rules for other genres or game settings beyond Ara Knochen.

The third book will be the Ara Knochen gazetteer, a book describing the common denizens and hazards of Namenlos Welt as well as more in depth political, historical, technological, and social details.

Once these three books are complete, I don't see much more to do. It'll probably take so long that I should be dead by then however, so it probably won't matter that much. (That is a joke people...laugh!!!)