2025-11-23 Kinetic Energy
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I finally think that Kinetic Energy is ready for testing. It's a
small Traveller-like game in 20 pages. Like I said elsewhere:

> As a role-playing game author, I am mostly driven by my need for
> shorter texts. I play something I like and I wonder whether I could
> make it shorter, keeping just the ideas I like, maybe mix in some
> ideas I've seen elsewhere, and call it a day. As such, my games
> aren't very original but they are very personal. These are the games
> I like to run.
>
> Another big driver is the need for games in German. Many of my games
> therefore started as "short German player-facing house-rules" – the
> rules I thought were most important, in German, and short.
>
> Then the games get translated into English and sooner or later the
> games start to diverge because I use them with different groups, at
> different times. My hope and my curse is that the games are driven
> by the needs of my tables.

And so I started my quest for "Fantasy Traveller" by writing
Helmbarten, translating that to Halberts, trying to add my referee
advice in Knives, thinking about a German Classic Traveller and
writing Weltensegler with Hasran, and another attempt at a short
Science Fiction game with Frotz resulting in Kinetic Energy.

I feel I still need some tables to generate a system that fits the
setting as I envision it.

But now, for "playtesting", I feel I should either write a
mini-setting generator, or do a little solo gaming to see how it
feels. Do I like the characters and creatures being generated? Does
the implied setting work for me? What kind of stories emerge from this
setup?

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