Category: RPGS

Attention, grognards! The Traveller RPG: The Great Rift & Deep Space Exploration Kickstarter.

I am not backing The Traveller RPG: The Great Rift & Deep Space Exploration Kickstarter, mostly because I only really know Traveller through GURPS and sixty-plus bucks for a box set for a game I don’t play is a bit much. However, I suspect that this may be tempting for some of my readers. And yes, there is a new edition of Traveller, from the same company (Mongoose Publishing). You can get the core rules at a discounted add-on.

Fair warning: Mongoose goes over deadline (they even admit it) with their Kickstarters. But they produce good stuff. Their new edition of Paranoia was good, although I am an unrepentant bad-pun Zap! player.

Item Seed: National Graham Cracker Day.

National Graham Cracker Day – Google Docs

 

National Graham Cracker Day

 

This holiday is celebrated on July 5th — oh, yes, it’s still celebrated. Despite the best efforts of the FBI to shut it down.  Which is hard to do when you can’t actually explain why you’re shutting down a religious holiday, because then you have to explain what the religion is, and that’s when people start freaking out.

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The Colonial Gothic Bundle of Holding.

I have been putting off getting into the Colonial Gothic RPG setting for a good, long while now.  It’s not that the game concept isn’t awesome: 18th Century Secret History Horror?  That’s right in my wheelhouse.  The problem was, I somehow got it into my head that the game used D&D’s open source mechanics.  I don’t mind D&D, but I’ve seen some horrible ways it can be adapted — or, more accurately, warped.

But this does not apply to the new edition of Colonial Gothic, if indeed it ever did, so check it out.  21 bucks on Bundle of Holding gets you everything, including some Lovecraft-specific stuff.  Which makes sense: if HPL gamed, he would have run a campaign in the pre-Revolutionary era.

Some good, if sad, news about the Prince Valiant RPG Kickstarter.

You may have heard of the sudden and recent passing of RPG great Stewart Wieck.  At the time of his death, Stewart was working on several projects, including fulfilling a Kickstarter for the Prince Valiant storytelling RPG.  The folks at Nocturnal Media just announced that they will, of course, take over finishing up that Kickstarter.  Obviously, it’s still sad news, but at least the game will still be coming out.

Church of the Brazen Serpent [Day After Ragnarok]

Church of the Brazen Serpent – Google Docs

Church of the Brazen Serpent

[The Day After Ragnarok]

 

 

Three years ago it was just another snake cult — actually, three years ago it was just a pair of minor medical Greek organizations at the University of Kansas. Then the Serpentfall happened, and the brothers at the local chapter of Phi Delta Epsilon soon discovered that certain of their rituals seemed to have rather more real-world medical relevance than they had had before.  Meanwhile, the sisters of Sigma Theta Tau discovered something similar, only in the field of prophecy and divination. Fortunately for them, in the chaos that gripped Kansas City — along with the rest of the Poisoned Lands — anyone with demonstrable medical skill could be forgiven minor foibles, such as ‘honoring’ the brazen serpent of the Old Testament and favorably mentioning the Witch of Endor in sermons. After all, it really was all in the Bible.  

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24 hours left on the Torg Eternity Kickstarter…

…which means 24 hours to go, and then I can stop resolutely ignoring the $200 tier.  I mean, i know full well that I’m not playing Torg Eternity any time soon.  The thirty buck level should be fine, given that I have half the PDFs from the old line already.  Still, it calls to me.  Callllllsssss…..

Creature Seed: Voodoo Remoras.

Voodoo Remoras – Google Docs

Voodoo Remoras

 

Naturally, these devices are neither the product of any sort of syncretic spirit-based religion, nor made up of actual scavenger fish. A Voodoo Remora isn’t even organic: it’s all raw galvanic fluid and platinum and gold aetheric current wiring and the rest of the old-style Mad Science aesthetic.  Just, you know, updated with 21st century manufacturing. Fortunately, most Mad Scientists can’t make the conceptual leap that lets them realize that, just because their science is steeped in pre-Einsteinian physics, their engineering and machining doesn’t have to be late Victorian-era as well.

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Whoa. This War Room WW II tabletop strategy game looks impressive.

I don’t play board games, but this looks like the business.

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