Sparking! V0.1.0 - The First Draft

Hey all, Implausibly Josh here!

The first draft of Sparking! is out! I'm so pumped! Let's talk a little bit about what's included and then some other thoughts about this project.

What's Included:

• Rules and directions for playing a game of Sparking!
• Basic Moves
• Special Moves
• Rules for Player-side character creation
• Species & Species-specific Moves
  • Prime Apes (Saiyans)
  • Slugz (Namekians)
  • Earthlings (Earthlings)
  • Mixed Species
• Rules for making your own Species & Species-specific Moves
• Backgrounds & Background-specific Moves
  • The Prince
  • The Master
  • The Reformed
  • The Pacifist
  • The Honorable Fighter
• Rules for making your own Backgrounds & Background-specific Moves
• 4 Main Character Moves
• Rules for making Attacking and Transformation Techniques
• GM Goals, Aims, and Principles
• Rules for GM-Side character creation

Basically, everything for the foundation of the game is here, with tons of room to expand. Rules for the flow of gameplay, 3 Species that all have 3 Species-specific moves, all backgrounds have 2 Moves (pick 1 when you create your character) and 4 Main Character moves (Pick 1, no overlap with other characters). There are rules for creating a Main Character (what would be a Player Character in other games) at level 1, rules for making Side Characters (simple characters you can play as when your normal Main Character is out of commission), and GM rules for making Enemy Characters (what would be monsters or enemies in other games). There are also rules and tip for expanding the game as you see fit for your game.

I'd like to add another Species (I'm thinking Androids), more moves for the backgrounds already written, one more background (Something involving time-travel), and way more Main Character moves. Also, I should probably tackle Fusion at some point, but we'll get there eventually.

Other Thoughts:

I'm just so happy to have this project out there and existing. Making a DBZ-inspired RPG has been something I've been working on for years, starting with getting the officially licensed Anime Adventure Game years ago and realizing it wasn't what I wanted from DBZ. It's taken a lot of work to figure out how to represent the things I like about DBZ, and it's wild to think that this project went from "off-and-on project I spent a few hours working on a month at most" to "something I got inspired to finish a first draft of in a few weeks". I hope y'all like this, and please please please provide feedback! I'm doing this solo, so the more feedback the better.

See ya next time!