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Narrative Adventures Made Easy
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Welcome

Welcome to Narrative Adventures Made Easy (NAME), a simple storytelling game whose rules and setting are designed to create fun and memorable adventures involving only a single protagonist.

Playing NAME requires these rules, paper and pencil, and two people eager for stories of adventure and humor. NAME makes an excellent and kid-friendly introduction to role-playing games. Its sensible rules and synergistic setting make it easy to design and play adventures. The the game can be played anywhere because core rules do not require dice, maps, or miniatures (optional rules for dice, maps, and miniatures are included).

The game is still being developed and experiences frequent additions and occasional revisions.

Inspiration to try diceless role-playing came from Amber Diceless by Erick Wujcik.

Playtesting thanks go to my wife, to Nathan Brown, and to Andy Crawford. Thanks for other helpful feedback go to D.J. Mckenna.

This work is not public domain, but I will almost certainly grant permission to other game developers wanting to steal from my ideas if they promise to give credit (to this and their other sources). That is how good RPG design works, and what I have endeavored to do!

Narrative Adventures Made Easy is written by David L. Van Slyke © 2010—2012. Artwork by various children is given credit individually, including linking to the artist's website or blog when that is available.

Tables of Contents

The main Table of Contents lists all of the game's sections and major subsections.

Index: Welcome, Tables of Contents

Core Rules: Skills, Skill Ratings, Advancement, Bonuses, Penalties, Elusion, Talents, Turns, Success, Losses, Adding Dice, Summary

Economic Rules: Wealth, Special Equipment, Mundane Items and Services

Magic Rules: Tempering and Sapping, Musing and Fortunosity, Laboritry and Chronistry, Therianthropy and Semblancy

Technology Rules: Alchemy, Chemstry, Machinery, Transmutery

Races: Dweorgs and Kobalts, Bergtrolls and Arzens, Pixies and Unseemly, Therions and Ogres

Dungeons: Isolated Keeps, Caves, Enchanted Forest, Wild Hunts Dragon Lairs, Ruins, Grayscale Adventures, Ice Fortifications, Mansions

Contests: Sporting Events, Round Trips, Bardic Competitions, Chases, Treasure Hunts, Zip Tag Games, Demolitions, Razings, Last One Standings

Champions: Errants, Troggles, Story Finders, Bounty Hunters, Buskers, Casters, The Hiss, Remotes, Inevitables

Gifts: Serendipity Hats, Scene Recorders, Annotated Maps, Finale Arrows, Panoplies, Recall Rugs, Absorb Stones, Snowballs, Necrotic Weapons

Monsters: Fell Animals, Gembacks, Witches, Lionkin, Dragons, Puddles, Attercops, Cyborgs, Undead

Powers: The Creator, Little Humble, Speleoth, Yarnspinner, Old Man River, Maw Lute, Futhorc, Lamia, Frosty Kostkey, Gnash

Design: Adventure Contexts, Map Locations, The Costs of Heroism

Sample Adventures: Dungeons, Arlinac Town, Others

Sample People: Dungeons, Arlinac Town

Sample Items: Antimagic, Blizzard, Burliness, Communication, Explosion, Finding, Healing, Heat, Immobilization, Influence, Lightness, Locks, Luck, Protection, Sneaking

A second type of table of contents is simply a copy of the skills and talents from the summary page with its links to each skill and talent description.

Finally, those who wish to look up details about the sample setting may prefer this table that summarizes how the nine Powers relate to the dungeons, contests, champions, gifts, and monsters described in the appropriate sections of the NAME rules.