Hillfolk
Free Downloads and Resources for DramaSystem
DramaSystem Resources
Articles
- The DramaSystem SRD – A reference document for writers and game designers to create their own products derived from DramaSystem
- Supporting Characters as Foils – Robin D. Laws uses GMCs to manipulate a PC’s dramatic poles
- The No-Response Response – Robin D. Laws on pacing scenes to maintain suspense
- Going Full Caliban – Robin D. Laws steals some dramatic pole ideas from iconic fictional characters
- Graybeard – Robin D. Laws details the GM character he keeps coming back to in Hillfolk one-shots
- Alternate Procedural Resolutions for One-Shot DramaSystem – Robin D. Laws looks at ways of resolving procedural scenes for shorter game sessions
- How Documentaries Show Us DramaSystem Scene Structure in Real Life – Robin D. Laws breaks down Yung Chang’s documentary China Heavyweight
- Chuffa In Hillfolk – Robin D. Laws focuses on the good kind of blathering in DramaSystem
- If Game of Thrones was Your DramaSystem Game – Robin D. Laws looks at who gets the drama tokens in S5 E1 Game of Thrones
- Problem Solving vs Problem Protecting – Robin D. Laws on resolving the tension between being a character’s player and a game’s co-author
- The Rhythm of Ensemble – Robin D. Laws looks at how GMs can work with groups of players to create better story
- Join the Fantasy Confrontation League – Robin D. Laws suggests a Hillfolk series as a vacation from emotional reticence
- Can We Have the Room Please – Robin D. Laws sends GMCs out of the room as a power move
- How to be the Teller at the Hillfolk Memory Bank Robin D. Laws looks at making note taking and judicious stage whispers part of the DramaSystem GM’s toolkit
- Dramatic Poles of Better Call Saul – Robin D. Laws looks at how dramatic poles are played out in one of the best shows going
Series Pitches
- All DramaSystem Series Pitches – A Complete List by Jean-Christophe Cubertafon
- Alignment, by Michael Duxbury, illustrated by Melissa Trender – a fantasy setting of caste-based oppression, based on the Good-Evil/Lawful-Chaos alignment system from classic fantasy games.
- Perveniet Calix, a Dracula Dossier Series Pitch by Ryan Macklin
- A War on Christmas, a Series Pitch by Lowell Francis
- Bloodbag Command, a Night’s Black Agents Series Pitch by Robin D. Laws
- RPG Geek DramaSystem Contest 2015 – 20+ Series Pitches from various authors
Forms
- Download the Scene Breakdown Tracker
- Download the Relationship Map
- Download a Recurring Characters Tracker
- Download the Main Cast Tracker
- Download a list of Common Intentions
- Download the Character Sheet
- Download a French language one-sided DramaSystem character sheet by Jean-Christophe Cubertafon
- Download an English language one-sided DramaSystem character sheet by Jean-Christophe Cubertafon
- Download a 2-sided, landscape orientation, with player reference (procedural rules references are to the advanced system from Blood on the Snow) by Jon Cole
- Download a GM reference sheet (procedural rules references are to the advanced system from Blood on the Snow) by Jon Cole
- Download 9 quick-start character playbooks for Hillfolk (including GM instructions on how to use) as 2-sided, landscape orientation, folded into booklets by Jon Cole.
- Download 6 quick-start character playbooks using material from the RPG Dream Askew (playbooks by Wade Rockett; Dream Askew by Avery Alder, material used with permission)
- Download 9 quick-start character playbooks for Hillfolk (including GM instructions on how to use) as 2-sided, landscape orientation, folded into booklets by Jon Cole.
- Download an Excel spreadsheet bennie calculator, which automatically calculates who should get bennies at the end of a session, by Jon Cole