I was originally planning to wait for my local friends to give me some feedback before putting the rough draft of Thrash up on the web, but I got impatient, as I’m sure plenty of you guys have. So:
Download Thrash 2.0 Beta (PDF)
A couple of things to keep in mind about this:
- This is the first draft, so the text is pretty raw and unedited. There WILL be typos and such.
- There’s a list of things I’m concerned about in the game’s design on the very last page.
- I’m trying out some neat indie-influenced stuff, but this is still Thrash, which is a fairly traditional game. My model for this approach is Truth & Justice.
- Although the general approach to the genre is the same as previous versions, the changes are massive, and it’s pretty much an entirely new game cast in a similar mold.
Edit: I should mention, I don’t mind getting feedback here, on the Thrash mailing list, by e-mail (ewen (swirly-a) neko-machi.com), or what have you. It’ll be neat to have the ML start picking up again though… :)
Also, while looking for Thrash stuff on Google I came across this. Good times.
Yaruki Zero Games 
Congratulations on Thrash 2.0! Looks like you’ve managed to streamline the whole system. Destiny points sound interesting, and the rest is just great. I only found a few possible additions and corrections (although I didn’t have much time for the additions). But more on that on the mailing list ;)
congratz too.
The system still has the Thrash feeling, and thats awesome. Capoeira is still mispelled :P but the system has so much potential!
I cant wait to start writing stuff for thrash! :)
I went and fixed Capoeira on the version on my hard drive, but I’m waiting until I make some more changes before I post up an updated version.
Today, I buy and read the new RPG about fightingvideo game on drivethriRPG: Fight!
The illustrations are really good, some idea awesome but I find the game a little off. Different systems for action in and out the fight? argh! The different dice (d4, d6, d8, etc), no no no! Etc, etc… not a bad game, but it’s not a good game either.
So, to fight my sadness of buying Fight!, I reread Trash2 and THAT is a really good game about fighting video game! If only it have illustration and diffusion on drivethruRPG… Sigh…
With my Super Street Fighters 4 that I will receive tomorrow and the KOF XIII on préparation, I want a Fighting RPG.
I think I will use Trash for a Street Fighter Next-gen game, 20years after SF4 with a new génération of world fighter and a new evil organisation, The Black Sun Chuch , a sect sponsorring global criminality and whose Leader is M.Lion, spiritual Heir of M.Bison!
I haven’t had a chance to check out Fight! so I can’t comment on it one way or the other. Please keep in mind that Thrash 2.0 is totally untested, so although I hope you enjoy it, there are undoubtedly issues I haven’t discovered.
I want to come back to working on Thrash eventually, but if I do it’ll likely be with some massive changes, as I’m thinking of putting in at least some elements of the system of Slime Story/Quest (the “Slime Engine”), particularly the battlefield map, which I think will be just about the perfect way to handle positioning in a fighting game style RPG.
You have a systeme like a battlefield map in fight (one of the few good idea).
You have a concept of range between each protagonist of a fight. When you move you just reduce or expand the range between your foe and your characters.