About

Published by Lonnie under General on October 15, 2007

Project Chupa is a set of core rules intended to be used as the foundation for other settings and systems to be built on. It was developed by the members of the Dragon’s Landing Podcast forums to provide a system suited towards the acting and storytelling aspects of roleplaying, and less towards wading in and rolling the dice. Its goal is to provide a cinematic feel, meaning that, especially during combat, the game did not bog down into rolls and numbers, leaving each player enough time to get a drink, and make a snack run. This was not the only goal, however. Characters should be central to the movement of the story, and they should be capable of heroic actions fitting in the grandest of Hollywood’s movies and still focus on the needs and wants and pains of the character.

We wanted a system that could expand and contract to fit different styles of play and various settings, while still maintaining a consistent mechanism and familiar feel. This meant that the system had to be able to use modules that could be snapped into play with ease. Not an easy task.

While the subconscious mind holds concepts from past RPG systems, the team strove to be original. They threw crazy ideas against the wall, discussing them until they found ideas they all could pull behind. Then they reined them in and tested them, tweaking until they worked. To the best of their knowledge all of the ideas that ended up in the system are their unique creation, with the exception of the Secrets, and the advancement system it used. During discussions, ideas kept leaning towards what one of the designers called TSOY, The Secrets of Yesterday, an RPG system published under a Creative Commons License.

This started as an experiment, to see if a group of disparate roleplayers, each bringing their own unique views and histories, could form something new and unique, something of value. During development, the fires of passion were lit. We hope it lights your imagination as well, and brings you many years of entertainment and vivid memories.

Credits

Lead Designer:

Lonnie Ezell

Designers:

• Elrandir
• Meus
• Neil
• Stickman
• Working Man
• Dragavan
• Harping Mick
• Crossfire
• Havoc
• TargetBoy
• Candestine
• Jack The Quick
• Lord Monkey
• Mingo

Editors:

• Hyphen
• Lord Z