Chris Avellone was lead designer on Planescape: Torment. He may now join Torment: Tides of Numenera if the Kickstarter can break $3.5m. As of posting the project has raised $2,949,768 from 53,956 backers. That’s a huge total and smashes the $900,000 asking price. However, the $3.5m will be a tough ask; there are 13 days […]
Torment: Tides of Numenera breaks Ouya’s $1m record
Brian Fargo and Monte Cook’s Torment: Tides of Numenera has raised more than $1,000,000 and it took less than 7 hours. It funded, hitting the $900,000 mark, in about six hours. Back in July Kickstarter published top 10 quickest campaigns to hit $1m and it is closer than you might think. The Ouya, the tiny […]
What does one life matter? Torment: Tides of Numenera kickstarts
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-numenera/ [Back this Campaign] Planescape: Torment was awesome. The buzz when “Numenera: Torment” was announced was very loud indeed. Today the inevitable has happened the team up Brian Fargo and Monte Cook has launched on Kickstarter. The game is called Torment: Tides of Numenera and it’s asking for $900,000. $900,000 is a lot. While I […]
Monte Cook’s Numenera becomes Planescape: Torment sequel
I think the best computer roleplaying game I’ve ever played was Planescape: Torment. Skyrim is great but Planescape: Torment was special. It looks like the stars have aligned and there will be a follow up. Wizards of the Coast have carefully guarded the rights to Planescape and the original Black Isle studio close. Makes it […]
Lovecraft horror RPG tremulus slaughters goals
[Pledge here] Tremulus (actually, I think the branding demands lower case t – tremulus) has a storytelling RPG Kickstarter project. We’ve seen some large projects in recent days but tremulus is at the other end of the evolutionary scale – asking for only $5,000. The result? At the time of posting, tremulus has slaughtered its […]
Monte Cook’s Numenera art teaser and update
It’ll come as little surprise to many gamers to discover that Monte Cook’s Numenera Kickstarter (pledge) stormed through its funding goals. At the time of posting the project has nearly $75,000 in backing, 900 backers and 36 days to go. Cook has been sharing more teasers and adding stretch goals. The picture above is from […]
Numenera: Monte Cook announces his new RPG
Popular RPG game designer Monte Cook has announced his new RPG. Back in April, Cook made gamer headlines when he quit the D&D Next project, blaming differences of opinion with the company, but backig the #DNDNext team. His new project, Numenera, is being funded by a Kickstarter campaign and may suggest Cook prefers to push […]
Monte Cook quits D&D Next, defends team
The respected and popular designer, Monte Cook, unexpectedly announced he was quitting Wizards of the Coast and the D&D Next project this week. Cook’s return to the company, over a year ago, was one of the first signs that the next generation of the roleplaying game was on the way. Cook blames a difference of […]
Money off: Monte Cook’s World of Darkness
White Wolf have a special deal on DriveThru RPG for Monte Cook’s World of Darkness book. This link puts the book in your basket! beware at the discount. I guess they don’t want to share the discounted price with people outside the mailing list… so, um, time will tell of what they make of Geek […]
Monte Cook e-View | Echoes #14
This GameWyrd interview first appeared in the RPGNow’s Downloader Monthly This month the free ezine looks at the Nuts and Bolts of the Active Exploits system, has a round up of the latest PDF releases, V Shane’s “Whack it Good!” comic, top ten PDF RPG charts and some other stuff. It’s well worth taking a […]
