Skyfarer, More Giant Robots, Talking Skeletons, Etc
SEPTEMBER: IT HAPPENED, WE WERE THERE
SKYFARER
Have you played Sunless Skies? It’s by Failbetter Games, who did Fallen London and Sunless Sea, and it’s a grim Victoriana romp with a dark sense of humour and a loose grip on reality. We’re proud to announce that we wrote an accompanying tabletop roleplaying game called SKYFARER, and you can download it for FREE now.
PRIDE AND EXTREME PREJUDICE
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a war machine powered by captured malevolent spirits must be in want of a crew made up of four unmarried sisters. Take control of these ladies of a marriageable age and fight back against the French invasion of England, all the while trying to make sure you find a suitable husband. Get it for free here.
THE RESISTANCE TOOLBOX
We've released the core Spire rules system - which we’re calling the Resistance system - as a free document. By creating your own skills, domains, resistances and abilities, you can build a machine that lets people tell stories about what their characters have to lose - and it’s all released under Creative Commons, so you’re free to use it in your own projects! Take a look at it for free here.
ADVENTURE SKELETONS
We’ve lent our game design strength to Chris Longhurst's Tales of the Talking Skeletons Kickstart by designing a one-page RPG called
ADVENTURE SKELETONS, in which you play a skeleton who’s going on an adventure but their head keeps falling off, which causes problems - and it’s being offered FREE to all backers. Go take a look at the Kickstarter here.
STRATA KICKSTARTER UPDATES
Our kickstarter for Strata is coming up in early October! We’ve written a couple of blog posts about it, so take a look if you’d like to see who our guest writers are (including Kira Magrann, Helen Gould and Christine Beard), what they’re writing, and for details on the two new classes included in the book - Inksmith and Shadow Agent. Read the latest blog post here.
TABLETOP GAMING LIVE
We’re going to be in Alexandra Palace this Sunday (30th September) as part of the Tabletop Gaming Live convention to talk about designing and publishing games through Kickstarter. If you’d like some pearls of wisdom, you’re at the convention and you don’t have anything to do during the famously busy 4pm Sunday slot, please do swing by and say hello.
CRITICAL ROLE:
CRASH PANDAS
Critical Role, a hugely popular actual play show, did a charity game of CRASH PANDAS (our game about being a bunch of raccoons driving the same car very fast all at once) and you can watch it here. Unlike their Honey Heist games, it’s not set in their D&D universe, so you won’t have to be a Critical Role veteran to get all the gags. Watch it here!
Okay! That's everything for now. Phew.
- Chris, Grant and Mary