WHAT IS NEW ABOUT RANDOM MIND GAMES?
Random Mind Games challenges the conventional model of RPG publishing by replacing stacks of supplements with an online member community and a system designed for the internet age from the ground up. Many of us have left a character sheet or rulebook behind or couldn’t find the information we were looking for because it was buried in a system of irrelevant information that outweighed the Library of Congress. Never again will you collect an avalanche of world books, equipment catalogs, and character handbooks, only to have a revision of the rules put them out of date. Gone are the days when experimenting with a new genre or time period meant buying even more books and learning a whole new system. The industry is crying out for a system that steps beyond the obsolete “publish or perish” mentality.
We need a system that supports the player instead of bilking us out of our hard earned currency by pushing out new text every few months with more “stuff” or “new rules” buried somewhere within their shiny new covers. Few RPG companies help us to find a gaming group and those that do enforce a hierarchy among their ranks that interferes with the ability to play the game itself. We have written for long hard hours and years to turn rules into art. We have worked hard to retool barely playable systems and static world backgrounds to fit our needs and to tell the stories we want to play. We have earned a say in the industry beyond the purchasing power of our dollar.
With RMG’s online membership, planning episodes and campaigns are managed by web-based tools and forums. Scaling opponents and tracking character development are automatically handled, saving maintenance time. Streamlined character generation, web-based experience management, and instant access to your character archive eliminates the hassle of paperwork. Player profiles exhibit your latest characters and creations as well as what other people are saying about you, offering both a view into the play style of a possible recruit and a one-stop place to display your own bragging rights. Online players and experts who run games help you to write better stories faster, so you can spend more time playing great games. Random Mind Games promotes community and inventiveness, supporting its players and drawing them together to share in a hobby that develops the mind, creativity, and comradery.
At Random Mind Games, we put players first. We use internet technologies like print-on-demand publishing, electronic distribution, online game development, and gaming forums. With online tools designed alongside the system, not as an afterthought, as integrated components to allow ready access for a community of roleplayers just like you.
The backbone of the system is the membership. When one member writes a character, episode, or a world that others find useful, they become the developers and the game grows according to its own needs. With the widespread availability of the internet, the open source model of development is the future of the roleplaying industry.
There is only one book required to play Qi: Living Energy and no line of supplements. The focus is on a membership of players whose games and characters are managed through an online community. Players simply logon to their account, access up-to-the-minute information, find players in their area, search for story ideas or pull down complete ready-to-run episodes, as well as post their own work and get input that improves their game.
For more on RMG visit www.randommindgames.com.
