The year is 2242 A.D. Megas, who had fallen asleep with no memory of their past, finally awoke-
Archives for April 2023
Explore all articles published in April 2023. This collection covers topics in Anime, Tabletop & RPGs, and Sites.
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Dark Gathering’s trailers get creepy and creepier
Based on the trailers, I’ve described Studio Olm’s Dark Gathering anime as creepy. Does this make me a wimp?
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It’s a player-driven system about explorers crossing dimensions as the universes merge worryingly, and the PCs are the only ones who can seem to see this happening.
Harrow – The Blighted Plane: Fantasy meets post-apocalypse meets crystal punk for the Cypher System
The RPG will use Monte Cook Games’ excellent Cypher System. It is embedded in a challenging (to survive) setting and yet manages to evoke some hope.
KamiErabi GOD.app and Bloody Escape, both from the Crunchyroll Fuji TV deal, look killer
So far, all the titles from Fuji’s TV deal with Crunchyroll look great. The partnership brings the Ultra+ block slot from Japan to the West and Crunchyroll’s other territories.
Next-gen virtual TTRPG site One More Multiverse has a Humble deal
The charity partner, The Trevor Project, will also be familiar to the TTRPG family, as it’s been a worthy cause the community has supported before. The Trevor Project works to end suicide among gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning young adults and youngsters.
YZ World Building: Dragonbane
The Dragonbane system is a d20 roll under slimmed down from a previous d100 system. I want to create a world using this system with an old-school fantasy feel using a modern system.
Unsolved Mysteries: The Portal Tomb RPG
My favourite part of this indie RPG pitch to the Kickstarter community to fund a game trying to fill in the gaps in our Irish history is the dread “video voice”. The creative team of William Hellwarth and Karin Malady hear it too and can barely stifle the giggles.
Audio EXP: #192- It’s only a draft
Many great RPG releases this week, some using licenses that are only in draft and some digging into material that inspired D&D’s magic system while avoiding D&D. It’s not all RPG news; it’s also Cowboy Bebop’s 25th anniversary year with a limited edition collection on the way. Welcome to Audio EXP.
Mechs and murder: Metallic Rouge anime
The first Metallic Rouge trailer says, “Heart of a young girl… a body made of steel, ” which lines up with more clues from the translated Bones site.
