OK Lab Rats! I know I should have probably signed up on Errin's blog, but I am taking the opportunity now to post my entry for his Hallowe'en 2007 RPG Challenge. It is a simple one page narrative game of mad scientists attempting to create a monster to unleash on the world. It is also a One Page RPG, so it can go down for that challenge also.

I'm not sure whether It Lives!! meets the requirements for Errin's current challenge, but I'll leave that up to him. After all, it's his challenge.

However, as they say in the Monster Club: "To the greatest monster of all - Man!"

The gaming group that I currently do most of my gaming with (Team 8) has created its own wiki site. The Team 8 Wiki is essentially a sandbox to allow us to develop our own ideas and to encourage creativity. It also gives us a chance to get more gaming done and stop our brains from exploding.

At the minute there are three ongoing projects:

• The Besterest Game in the World Evar - A collection of random lunacy done for the sheer hell of it.
• Shattered Realities - A multiversal game and setting where the players take on reality-altering demons.

Gah. I hate the summer. Far too warm, and I can't sleep at night. Still, I do have time to think as I lie sweating in the darkness.

One idea I have come up with is a way to abstract the advancement of a plot in a RPG. Most scenarios have either a series of events or a series of encounters that must be completed in order to lead to the climax. Why should they? Yes, there has to be an end to an adventure - but could there be some way of governing when an adventure ends in the new breed of RPGs that encourage player framing of the plot?

If we regard the plot advancement as representing the players getting closer or further away from their ultimate goal, then a possible solution arises. Instead of having linked encounters, we have a number of Plot Points. These Plot Points represent the obstacles that need to be overcome in the scenario.

This is my third entry for ErrinF's One Page Challenge. This time, the game is "His is the Hand". It is based upon situations described in the HG Wells book, "The Island of Dr Moreau".

I am still having some trouble with the layout on RagTime, and there are still letters missing at the end of words even keeping within the limits of a page size. However, I do hope to cure these.

Some thoughts. I have had a bit of trouble wth this game, and I think that it is possibly the thematically weakest of the three I have submitted so far. However, I am not sure why. Something just feels wrong ...

Laptops are bad. Really bad. I mean, if I want to write something on my clunker of a tower, I have to go downstairs, wait for Windoze to boot up, check the hard drive, make sure the broadband connection isn't stopping something else from working and then write. With the laptop I just flick it open and turn it on.

Yes, my creativity has improved, but my sleep is suffering.

Anyway, the latest 1pRPG has been produced. I have tried to be a bit more ambitious with the layout while not abandoning the format I have used previously. Being an engineer, I find standard formats very comforting, and they help the writing process no end. It's like Seth Brundle and his clothes - it gives me more time to think about the content.

Ladies and gentlemen -

Allow me to present my first entry for the One Page Challenge. The Hive is a game of survival horror based on the story Quatermass and the Pit by nigel Kneale. Derivative, I admit, and so I beg you forgiveness. However, I am a fan of Nigel Kneale and love his work.

Also, this is my first attempt at using RagTime Solo on my new Mac. The layout may be a bit simple, but this has been a learning curve for me. Hopefully I will get better. Constructive criticism is invited, as always.

And, yes. I will post this to 1km1kt, but not today.

Edit: The PDF has been redone to take account of layout comments (that's where the page ends!) and to correct some of the more egregious spelling errors.