I was excited enough to back the kickstarter, but I’m waiting for that to be complete before I dive in. I think it’ll fit the same niche as the Alien RPG but perhaps leaner?
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Yes and yes. Mothership is (to my brain at least) faster, cleaner Alien. Easier to get to a table for sure!
A friend of mine just launched a Kickstarter for NPC generator dice. Clever solution to quickly create an NPC for a game on the fly. Only use the attributes you care about.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/petulantpudgies/dungeon-helper-dice-character-creator
Awww yish, Quinns talking about the Excellent Lancer RPG.
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I’ve been continuing to run my 5e game, and have incorporated some of the extremely excellent DM tools from Worlds Without Number (plus cyberware from Cities Without Number because I love me a dose of cyberpunk in my fantasy games), and I gotta say, I am extremely impressed with the quality of the Without Number games.
I have this suspicion that Kevin Crawford himself might be a bit of a shitberg (I took a look at Wolves of God and as a medievalist who studies that time period and culture, I have Several Questions), but the tools he’s developed to support sandbox-style worldbuilding are the best I have ever seen in a game. I’m using the Faction stuff and the Community tags and it all just flows without being burdensome. I highly recommend checking out the free version of his games - you get all the DM tools and the entire game, so it’s literally no cost to you.
I also ran into this game the other day, and it scratches a very particular itch I’ve had for a while:
This is a hack of Pathfinder 2e that uses Paizo’s ORC license (developed during the WotC OGL fiasco of late) that seriously compresses all the bloat of Pathfinder while retaining the feel of incredible flexibility in building a character. It takes some inspiration from more contemporary lightweight RPG design, but also doesn’t bolt it to yet another OSR chassis. And, it’s both cheap and entirely complete. Definitely worth checking out if, like me, you like flexible character creation but also don’t want to deal with the ridiculous bullshit of actual Pathfinder.
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Sadly I can never get people to play more than like a one-shot of mecha games.
The player action/mech management free web-based software (Comp-Con) does worlds for handling admin/tracking things if that’s part of the issue.
Just got it, feels great. Also the hardcopy includes a download link for digital versions (PDF and epub)
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I just bought that. I probably won’t play Lancer much in person (well, maybe, we’ll see if I can get my D&D group to budge at some point), but I really like Massif and want to support them. Plus the cover is siiiiiick.
My original plan was to pickup the digital to run the game with but the new cover was too good looking to pass up.
I’m really glad I picked up that physical copy of Lancer, because after reading through the rules it really makes sense to me. I always have difficulty doing my primary learning in an exclusively-digital format, so the physical book helped me grok things.
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Fresh hot Quinn’s Club goodness. Validating my yolo purchase of the Delta Green bundle.
