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.
JustWatch’s March 2023 viewing figures make me ask: Is mainstream even popular anymore?
Those are the shows that dominate March 2023 from the streaming search engine JustWatch. Where are the so-called ‘mainstream’ titles?
Undead (Girl) Murder Farce: A severed head as a detective!
Take an alternative history in which the supernatural is real and imagine what that could do for Sherlock Holmes stories. Oh, I don’t mean the detective gets to investigate the supernatural – that’s already catered for – but what if the detective was supernatural?
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #199
Routinely Itemised is Geek Native’s weekly summary of RPG news. Section headers take you straight to new releases, interviews and headlines.
The ORC-licensed Basic Roleplaying: Universe Game Engine is out now
Written by Jason Durall and Steve Perrin, the rules offer character growth based on what the PCs do in the game and have a pretty brutal combat system in which every action matters.
Tales of the Valiant: Project Black Flag gets its official name
The Player’s Guide includes 13 base classes, lineages and heritages from classic fantasy roleplaying, and the rules you need to play or GM, all between two covers. The Monster Vault includes every dungeon-crawling and fire-belching fantasy creature you need to craft compelling fantasy encounters.
Vagabond: An ambitious Kickstarter for a solo and group RPG with an autonomous system
The project allows Taron as Rebel Rouser Games to actually make the Vagabond TTRPG.
Ahsoka’s trailer is all Jedi in a post-Jedi universe
The trailer features Sabine Wren, Hera Syndula, Grand Admiral Thrawn, characters from the Rebels series, and I think Ezra Bridger.
