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Kids on Bikes: Roleplaying Game Core Rule Book
The door to the old house creaks open, the rust on the hinges groaning as you see the dust floating like spores in the air inside. By the faint light of your cheap flashlights, you see the stairs to the upper floor, its railings gnarled and broken like crooked teeth. Their curve makes the stairs seem almost like a hungry grin, and you wonder if their age will support your weight. Still, you must go in. The only question is who will go first?
Published November 21, 2018
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January 6, 2025
Juego creado a rebufo de la serie de Stranger Things.
Intenta recrear el género de jóvenes bicicleteros en los 80 que vimos en series como ET o Los Goonies y que Stranger Things recupera.
La creación de personajes, la ciudad y las relaciones entre personajes es magnífica, pero las reglas del juego me parecen muy poco pensadas. En principio, un personaje debería intentar encontrar soluciones creativas para tirar por sus atributos buenos en vez de los malos (Usar cerebro contra el matón de clase para amenazarlo con chivarse, en vez de pegarse con él), pero a veces hay fronteras insalvables (Usar Cerebro para saltar un río, porque has hecho una pértiga?).
Aunque presenta una idea muy buena, el introducir personajes con poderes, los introduce como personaje secundario no controlado por un jugador, con el uso de sus poderes controlado parcialmente por un jugador, pero con las reglas concretas de como hacerlo externalizadas a un suplemento de cartas.
En resumen, buenas ideas mal implementadas en unas reglas reguleras. Genial creació de personajes y relaciones entre ellos.
Se me ocurre que se podria combinar este juego conLost Bay de Iko, o meterle reglas de Mutant Year Nano o incluso Tales of the loop, Monsters Hunter's Club para Savage o, quizás la mejor opción, Pine Shallows de Jimmy Shelter.
COMENTARIOS SOBRE LA SEGUNDA EDICION:
Mejora mucho el apartado de seguridad, añadiendo comentarios sobre el romance entre personajes.
Añade alguna tabla para la creación de la ciudad.
Las reglas para personajes con poderes ahora tienen cara y ojos y han mejorado muchisimo, añadiendo niveles de dificultad y una mecanica de puntos de poder cuyo uso tiene consecuencias para el personaje. Son reglas que están muy bien y mejoran mucho este aspecto... pero siguen siendo para pnjs.
La creación de este pnj mejorado es ahora super compleja, teniendose que responder muchas preguntas sobre él con tal de darle una tridimensionalidad muy interesante.
El resto de reglas siguen siendo malas.
Intenta recrear el género de jóvenes bicicleteros en los 80 que vimos en series como ET o Los Goonies y que Stranger Things recupera.
La creación de personajes, la ciudad y las relaciones entre personajes es magnífica, pero las reglas del juego me parecen muy poco pensadas. En principio, un personaje debería intentar encontrar soluciones creativas para tirar por sus atributos buenos en vez de los malos (Usar cerebro contra el matón de clase para amenazarlo con chivarse, en vez de pegarse con él), pero a veces hay fronteras insalvables (Usar Cerebro para saltar un río, porque has hecho una pértiga?).
Aunque presenta una idea muy buena, el introducir personajes con poderes, los introduce como personaje secundario no controlado por un jugador, con el uso de sus poderes controlado parcialmente por un jugador, pero con las reglas concretas de como hacerlo externalizadas a un suplemento de cartas.
En resumen, buenas ideas mal implementadas en unas reglas reguleras. Genial creació de personajes y relaciones entre ellos.
Se me ocurre que se podria combinar este juego conLost Bay de Iko, o meterle reglas de Mutant Year Nano o incluso Tales of the loop, Monsters Hunter's Club para Savage o, quizás la mejor opción, Pine Shallows de Jimmy Shelter.
COMENTARIOS SOBRE LA SEGUNDA EDICION:
Mejora mucho el apartado de seguridad, añadiendo comentarios sobre el romance entre personajes.
Añade alguna tabla para la creación de la ciudad.
Las reglas para personajes con poderes ahora tienen cara y ojos y han mejorado muchisimo, añadiendo niveles de dificultad y una mecanica de puntos de poder cuyo uso tiene consecuencias para el personaje. Son reglas que están muy bien y mejoran mucho este aspecto... pero siguen siendo para pnjs.
La creación de este pnj mejorado es ahora super compleja, teniendose que responder muchas preguntas sobre él con tal de darle una tridimensionalidad muy interesante.
El resto de reglas siguen siendo malas.
June 24, 2024
Actually read the second edition which isn’t up here yet. Added some cool mechanics in addition to the original. A bit too much about boundaries in this edition. It was to the point that it treated the reader as a child in regard to interaction with peers which just came off as pedantic and overbearing. There seems to be no respect for the individual to be a decent human being and so had to make sure they know to check everyone’s comfortability with every detail. I get it. It was just a little over the top.
July 19, 2020
I love the concept, but the execution left me wanting.
First, the good stuff:
Its short, and its process makes it great as a backup. Character creation is quick and easy, the game mechanics are also quick and easy... actually too easy in my opinion (I love me some clever mechanics).
It has a cooperative setting creation system... or maybe schema is a better term for it, which makes a quick impromptu game much easier on the storyteller. I know I work much better when I have input from my players
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Now, my problems:
As a very short book I feel they spent WAY to much time on inclusion and player/storyteller safety. These are DAMN important things, but with only 74 pages I think 1 paragraph on it would be sufficient.
You can play an adult, which I think misses the beauty of the concept. I would have kept adults as strictly NPC's and had the Characters be children, per-teens, and teens.
I do not like the stats distribution. They have 4,6,8,10,12,& 20 – I think I would have gone with 6,8,8,10,10,& 12, letting the Player use one of their Strengths to increase a stat (Conversely if you want to be really bad at something you can drop a stat to gain a Strength).
Doesn't really have examples of antagonists. I think that's a big flaw. Stat blocks for cultists, police, dogs, even ghosts and some Semi-Urgent monsters would have been nice.
It's concept for Powered characters feels really wonky, like they were trying WAY to hard to emulate some very Strange Things. Its also very limiting.
Probably other niggling things, but I will end with this – I have a game mechanics fetish (shameful and embarrassing, but do you remember the game “Universe”? I LOVED the character creation in that game. Took hours and involved calculations best performed on a Cray... or better a Curta [I think I just had a... well 'moment' there ;) ]). Anyway one would think a game NAMED 'Kids on Bikes' would have at least a passing mention of some bonus/mechanic for using a Bike!
First, the good stuff:
Its short, and its process makes it great as a backup. Character creation is quick and easy, the game mechanics are also quick and easy... actually too easy in my opinion (I love me some clever mechanics).
It has a cooperative setting creation system... or maybe schema is a better term for it, which makes a quick impromptu game much easier on the storyteller. I know I work much better when I have input from my players
********** ********** ********** ********** ********** **********
Now, my problems:
As a very short book I feel they spent WAY to much time on inclusion and player/storyteller safety. These are DAMN important things, but with only 74 pages I think 1 paragraph on it would be sufficient.
You can play an adult, which I think misses the beauty of the concept. I would have kept adults as strictly NPC's and had the Characters be children, per-teens, and teens.
I do not like the stats distribution. They have 4,6,8,10,12,& 20 – I think I would have gone with 6,8,8,10,10,& 12, letting the Player use one of their Strengths to increase a stat (Conversely if you want to be really bad at something you can drop a stat to gain a Strength).
Doesn't really have examples of antagonists. I think that's a big flaw. Stat blocks for cultists, police, dogs, even ghosts and some Semi-Urgent monsters would have been nice.
It's concept for Powered characters feels really wonky, like they were trying WAY to hard to emulate some very Strange Things. Its also very limiting.
Probably other niggling things, but I will end with this – I have a game mechanics fetish (shameful and embarrassing, but do you remember the game “Universe”? I LOVED the character creation in that game. Took hours and involved calculations best performed on a Cray... or better a Curta [I think I just had a... well 'moment' there ;) ]). Anyway one would think a game NAMED 'Kids on Bikes' would have at least a passing mention of some bonus/mechanic for using a Bike!
January 13, 2021
Neat little game that provides some very cool ideas for world building and cooperative storytelling.
I do feel that some of the crunch would benefit from some more depth and in a game that is called "Kids on Bikes" I don't really understand the inclusion of adults as playable characters but in the end let's just see how it actually plays first.
I do feel that some of the crunch would benefit from some more depth and in a game that is called "Kids on Bikes" I don't really understand the inclusion of adults as playable characters but in the end let's just see how it actually plays first.
January 7, 2025
An OK-ish system wrapped in at least an equal number of pages of safety tools, capped off with a scenario you literally can't spoiler because it ends with "then you & the players collaboratively decide what else happens". Well ... all right, I guess.
May 23, 2020
Como manual de rol es muy ligero, y todo lo cuenta de una manera muy interesante con muchos ejemplos
February 9, 2021
Really liked the mechanics of the game, would change a myriad of things on the context, but is a great game and idea. Can't wait to test it.
April 11, 2021
Kids on Bikes cuenta con un sistema bastante laxo con el que llevar a la mesa aventuras emplazadas en los tiempos en que ni soñábamos con la tecnología que manejamos hoy en día.
Con un claro estilo a series o películas como Stranger Things, los Goonies y tantos otros ejemplos posibles nos plantea vivir grandes (y extrañas) aventuras en pequeños pueblos.
Tendré que tratar de probarlo para terminar de entender la propuesta del juego. Como lectura resulta ágil y amena, un sistema que no se complica demasiado y puede leerse sin mucha dificultad a lo largo de una tarde.
Con un claro estilo a series o películas como Stranger Things, los Goonies y tantos otros ejemplos posibles nos plantea vivir grandes (y extrañas) aventuras en pequeños pueblos.
Tendré que tratar de probarlo para terminar de entender la propuesta del juego. Como lectura resulta ágil y amena, un sistema que no se complica demasiado y puede leerse sin mucha dificultad a lo largo de una tarde.
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