The Scratch Role-Playing System

The Squawk Role-Playing Game now uses the Scratch Role-Playing System instead of the Mano a Mano Role-Playing system. (Most versions of Squawk in the past have used Mano a Mano.) Scratch is a simpler and more generalist Role-Playing System (not as focused on close-range combat as Mano a Mano.) We made this decision in 2009, because it is easier for both for us as developers of the book and for new Squawk players. This still means that the Squawk RPG will have a normal all-rights-reserved copyright license, while using an "open source" role-playing system (Scratch, which like Mano a Mano uses a Creative Commons license.)

What is the Squawk RPG?

The Squawk Role-Playing Game is one of the first projects our development team started, and we have aspired to make a publicly available version of this game in one form or another since the mid 90's. It broke off from another project called "The Dark Woods," and has appeared on some of our websites in the past. In 2008 we began working on a Squawk RPG Book, and we expect to have this book available for sale online in 2010. For more information on the Squawk RPG, check out The Serpent Lord's personal notes on Squawk.

Old News

The Game Arts Guild has been around a while in one form or another. Check out http://gameartsguild.com/old_news/ for an index of our old news from 1997 to 2009.