My Red Crayons

Red Crayons

Growing up in west I played a number of games on paper at school, this was before video games. These paper games would have military themes where the players would draw their armies on opposite sides of the paper. Then you would put your pencil on the unit that was shooting and press hard. The pencil would slide out from under your hand leaving a line in a random forward direction. 

You would then take a ruler and follow that line to the edge of the paper. If the line you where drawing from the pencil mark intersected the other players unit before the edge of the paper then that unit was destroyed. The goal was to destroy the other person's army first. You would use a red crayon to cross out the destroyed unit. Playing these games you always needed a lot of red crayons.

As I grew up my games became more complex but the idea was still the same, destroy the other person’s army first. The games I played were the first edition of Shadow run, Battletech to name a few. By the end of high school I was starting to design my own games with a very good friend. Since those early years I have continued to design role playing games, build worlds and write rules. This blog is to share my ideas and some of my current projects. 

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