The ‘Prince Valiant® Storytelling Game’ Kickstarter.

Already funded, which startled me.

But perhaps it shouldn’t have:

After this project achieves its funding goal, every additional $2500 of funding will add an additional Episode to the rulebook. Not just that, but these Episodes will be written by some of the best game designers creating today, including Cam Banks (Marvel Heroic Roleplaying), Ken Hite (Trail of Cthulhu, Night’s Black Agents), Robin Laws (Feng Shui, Hillfolk), Rick Meints (Chaosium, Inc.), John Nephew (Atlas Games), Chris Pramas (Green Ronin Publishing), Monica Valentinelli (Firefly) and John Wick (7th Sea).

That’s some serious gaming talent, there.  I’m getting the impression that a Prince Valiant® RPG is one of those titles: which is to say, the people who love it love it very, very much.  And that some of those people went on to write some excellent RPGs of their own.  So… maybe they know something that I don’t?

4 thoughts on “The ‘Prince Valiant® Storytelling Game’ Kickstarter.”

  1. I vaguely remember that it was a stripped down version of Pendragon, but I’ll quote Shannon Applecline’s Designers and Dragons here:
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    It(Valiant) was a one-off roleplaying game designed by Greg Stafford. Some of its highlights were a strong storytelling basis, the use of a coin as a randomizer, a one-page game system, matched player and character reward systems, and an early troupe style system that allowed players to become storytellers for brief scenes.
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    Yeah, I can see that the “Narrative over Complex Game Mechanics” school of thought would be happy to see this back.

  2. I remember “Prince Valiant” as a ‘Sunday only’ comic in the local paper, and we did not have a subscription…. I wished I could keep up with the stories. Am I recollecting a different series or something?

    1. Nope, that was it.
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      As a kid, the comic was amazing.
      Now, it would likely annoy me because even though it had good story arcs very little actually ever changed.

  3. But… how long will people play a RPG where the are only 5 to 6 dice rolls every Sunday? #CARTOONSTRIPHUMOR

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