RPGaday 2015: Days 1-3
So I decided to to RPGaday again this year. I missed the actual month for it (August), but there's no time like the present to get started!
Day 1: Forthcoming Game You're Most Looking Forward To
Not a new game system, but the forthcoming RPG product I'm most excited about is called the Dracula Dossier, for a game called Night's Black Agents. The game is like a supernatural spy thriller RPG, and the Dossier is essentially a large campaign framework in which Bram Stoker's Dracula is the redacted version of a report on actual events, and you need to use that to battle Dracula in the present. Kenneth Hite, the writer, really knows his stuff and I trust him to turn Stoker's (actually pretty unremarkable) novel into a really interesting gaming experience.
Day 2: Kickstarted Game You're Most Pleased You Backed
I honestly haven't backed too many RPG Kickstarters. There's one game I just recently backed that hasn't come out yet, but it looks really good, so I'll go with that as my answer. It's called Masks, and it's a Powered by the Apocalypse-style game where you play young superheroes. The mechanics reinforce being a teenager with superpowers specifically, kind of like Monsterhearts but a little less horrifying and a little more fun. I trust the guys behind the Kickstarter, and there's going to be a ton of content created for the game just based on the one project, so I'm really looking forward to seeing how it comes out.
Day 3: Favorite New Game of the Last 12 Months
For this, I'll go with the game that made me trust the guys behind Masks - another Powered by the Apocalypse game called Urban Shadows. This is essentially a World of Darkness hack using the Apocalypse World engine, which is all you really needed to say to get some of my money. Fortunately, the game is also really good. It's a standard AW game, though they really reinforce the setting by making you interact with all of the different supernatural factions in the world in order to gain XP. They also make favors and debts among supernatural entities a kind of currency within the game, which feels really thematic. I haven't had the chance to play this yet, but I'm dying to give it a try.
Day 1: Forthcoming Game You're Most Looking Forward To
Not a new game system, but the forthcoming RPG product I'm most excited about is called the Dracula Dossier, for a game called Night's Black Agents. The game is like a supernatural spy thriller RPG, and the Dossier is essentially a large campaign framework in which Bram Stoker's Dracula is the redacted version of a report on actual events, and you need to use that to battle Dracula in the present. Kenneth Hite, the writer, really knows his stuff and I trust him to turn Stoker's (actually pretty unremarkable) novel into a really interesting gaming experience.
Day 2: Kickstarted Game You're Most Pleased You Backed
I honestly haven't backed too many RPG Kickstarters. There's one game I just recently backed that hasn't come out yet, but it looks really good, so I'll go with that as my answer. It's called Masks, and it's a Powered by the Apocalypse-style game where you play young superheroes. The mechanics reinforce being a teenager with superpowers specifically, kind of like Monsterhearts but a little less horrifying and a little more fun. I trust the guys behind the Kickstarter, and there's going to be a ton of content created for the game just based on the one project, so I'm really looking forward to seeing how it comes out.
Day 3: Favorite New Game of the Last 12 Months
For this, I'll go with the game that made me trust the guys behind Masks - another Powered by the Apocalypse game called Urban Shadows. This is essentially a World of Darkness hack using the Apocalypse World engine, which is all you really needed to say to get some of my money. Fortunately, the game is also really good. It's a standard AW game, though they really reinforce the setting by making you interact with all of the different supernatural factions in the world in order to gain XP. They also make favors and debts among supernatural entities a kind of currency within the game, which feels really thematic. I haven't had the chance to play this yet, but I'm dying to give it a try.