Daniel Locke has smashed his Kickstarter target for a tabletop RPG called Eco Mofos!! Those aren’t my exclamation points, but his.
The game is described as Miyazaki meets Mad Max on a psychedelic future Earth, and it looks great. Daniel is a professional graphic novelist and artist, so that might be why! You can see the latest tally or succumb to the call on Kickstarter.
You can sample the game for free from Daniel’s site. The freebie version is without any art and is in a temporary layout, but you’ll get the rules. You’ll see the d666 table of loot.
666? The mark of the Devil? Or just 3d6? Rather than being dark and brooding and certainly not grimdark, ECO MOFOS!! is described as weird hope.
What’s weird hope? All the story says is that it channels weird and alternative sci-fi. I’m unsure about using ‘weird’ to help define ‘weird hope’, but I suspect I’m being pedantic. I’d never seen the genre handle before, but it decodes itself. I know what Daniel means. ECO MOFOS!! a RPG which hints at a better but stranger future.
It’s also a RPG which lends itself to solo play.
Around two hundred years ago, everything went to pieces. The wealthy, who created this mess, fracked off to Mars while the lucky ones hid in vast underground bunkers. We were left to fend for ourselves on the surface, eeking out an existence in the broken world they left behind, searching for remnants of a past world to help us survive, searching for a place to call home.
Play as a group of misfits who have found each other in the wastes and ruins of the fallen world. The past is just a hazy legend, the story scattered over thousands of usb sticks and servers, but the future is there to be written.
Gamers can support the indie project by singing from the rooftops about it.
Also, gamers can support ECO MOFOS!! by pledging cash, those who pledge £15 or more will be thanked with a PDF of all the rulebooks and stretch goals.
Backers get the spiral-bound rulebook at £20 in support, although they’ll have to pay for shipping later.
The A5 hardback of the RPG swaps out with the ring-bound version of the OSR-adjacent game at the £35 supporter tier.
Higher up and at £50, the GRRL Level swaps in the variant cover hardback and at £69, there’s a third variant cover.
Supporters can go to £200 and get a numbered and limited (to 666) four-colour A4 risograph print, all three variant covers, the spiral-bound and pamphlets.
That’s not even the top tier; there’s a £420 one for all of the above plus an original and signed art piece or the £666 level for all that plus an NPC or creature of your design, which Daniel will illustrate.
Delivery for everything, from PDF to custom art, is slated for May next year.
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