Named Toolkit

This Named Toolkit is a longer version of the Named Summary.

You should look at the Named Summary before you download this, as it includes the core approach and all the best ideas worth stealing in this document. If you want to borrow from Named or to play in one of our games, it is very likely that the Named Summary has everything you need.

This document is more a 250+ page toolkit or framework than a complete ‘roleplaying game system’. Named is intended to be an adaptable and flexible toolkit to support the specific way we like to roleplay, which has been written up help us remember the optional tools and techniques we have created.

This longer toolkit is useful if:

• You want to dig deeper into ideas in the Named Summary that intrigued you, and reading longer explanations of the key tools, detailed world-building, and how we evolved Named sounds weirdly intriguing.
• You want to read a few new options for Named to get your own ideas flowing like more complicated magic, alternative resolution, additional techniques.
• You like the idea of a flexible toolkit to play exactly the way you want, and this might encourage and support you to make and evolve your own.
  

The final version should be available as a free PDF and at-cost book in late 2024. Two versions are currently available:

• Draft from 30 October 2023, which has limited art and includes most of the key tools and techniques. Small size (6mb) for a quick download.
• 'Almost Final' version from 8 September 2024, which is a refined version with substantial art, refined text, and additional worlds and techniques. Larger size (50mb) and likely to be very close to the final version.

Cover image is ‘The Traitor’ by Paul Joanowitch. Interior art in screenshots by Pixoshiru, Jeff Zugdale, Ryzom and others.