New for the Bookmark HP RPG, the Game Host’s Guidebookmark! print-and-play PDF on DriveThruRPG!
Let’s talk titles for a moment, because you may have noticed a pattern.
If I had a Marketing Department, they’d be yelling at me about the name, Bookmark HP RPG. (I’m sure of that, because when I worked places that did have a Marketing Department, they yelled at me about other things.)
“How are you supposed to pronounce it? Why’s it have an HP in the title at all if you’re going to cross it out? Shouldn’t we name it something more exciting, like maybe Infinite Adventures, or Porta-Play, or Dragon’s Egg, or anything but Bookmark ‘No HP’ RPG?”
Why? Because it makes me laugh!
Which is why Dracula’s Get and Supers! are called “Sourcebookmarks.” And when people started asking for more player guidelines, I published a Player’s “Handbookmark,” and now a Game Host’s “Guidebookmark.” The words are so ridiculous that they make me laugh! And they’re an affectionate poke at the game that originated this hobby.
I only wish there were a word for “manual” that ends in “book,” so I could poke fun at Monster Manual. Looks like I’ll have to settle for Bookmark Bestiary. Fortunately concept itself is ridiculous enough to laugh at! Expect a slew of those, for different settings.
Oh, and about this Game Host’s Guidebookmark. It provides a rules twist for “mooks,” so your protagonists can handle attacks by mobs of your villain’s minions, plus guidelines for running scenes and awarding Boons, and the most concise “how to” I’ve ever seen for crafting adventures. This bookmark went through the same play-test and critique as the previous ones, so I think it’s safe to call it meaty.
By the way, my hypothetical Marketing Department would also have yelled at me about launching the line with Dracula’s Get, instead of fantasy, or sci-fi, or the Supers! Sourcebookmark. But I wanted to solo play Petit Louis, bastard son of Louis XIV, hanger-on at courts, part of Donald Trump’s retinue during the Presidency. And with the “mook” rule, he managed to survive an attack by ten human hunters, though just barely. He stumbled away, almost destroyed, and had to spend two weeks recovering in the tender care of the rock band he manages.