[Q&A] Robert Turk (Are You Mental?)

[19:02] <+RobertTurk> Hello folks! My name is Robert Turk. I run the independant design and publishing company, Wicked Clever, with my wife and am myself an independent author, game designer, and entertainer (not the adult variety.)

[19:02] <+RobertTurk> In a nutshell, I create quirky games.

[19:02] <+RobertTurk> My latest creation, Are You Mental?, is now on kickstarter with only 2 days left! We are fully funded and have unlocked several stretch goals. And the game itself is a silly no prep rpg about lunatics with superpowers. The black and white pdf of the game (and the first expansion) is available only through the kickstarter for one US dollar!

[19:03] <+RobertTurk> mental.wicked-clever.com

[Q&A] Brandon Williams (Demon Gate)

[19:04] <+BrandonWilliams> My name is Brandon Williams, I have also gone by the nickname Rogue for a long time. I am 39 years old and I am the creator of the Arcanum Syndicate. We try to publish primarily fantasy/ sci-fi with a dark tone.

[19:05] <+BrandonWilliams> Tonight I am here to talk about Demon Gate

[19:05] <+BrandonWilliams> Demon Gate is an apocalyptic dark fantasy tabletop RPG

[Q&A] Ed Jowett (Era: The Consortium – A Universe of Expansions)

[12:29] <+Ed_Jowett> So hi everyone!

[12:29] <+Ed_Jowett> I’m Ed Jowett, creator and producer of Era: The Consortium and I’m here today to talk a little bit about my latest Kickstarter.

[12:29] <+Ed_Jowett> (Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadesofvengeance/era-the-consortium-expansions)https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadesofvengeance/era-the-consortium-expansions

[12:30] <+Ed_Jowett> This one’s quite special to me, because when I originally created the game (which, actually, I did a Q&A about back then!), I didn’t have the space in the Core Rulebook to put all the material I wanted.

[12:30] <+Ed_Jowett> So I’ve decided to flesh out the universe a bit.

[Q&A] Gabe Hicks (S0urce C0de)

[19:22] <+Gabe> Alright 😀 Hello everyone, my name is Gabe Hicks and I’m the Lead designer behind a tabletop game on Kickstarter called S0urce C0de

[19:23] <+Gabe> Well first lemme tell ya a bit about it though

[19:23] <+Gabe> S0urce C0de is a tabletop game with a sci-fi futuristic take, that was designed with a small team (4 of us) all college students who just A. Wanted a scifi tabletop that was easy to figure out and B. Wasn’t expensive.

[19:24] <+Gabe> We designed it with the idea of anyone who has ever played a roleplaying game of some sort, digital or not, could read through this handbook and make their character honestly pretty quickly. There might be some mechanics they don’t understand just yet but we wanted to make it, again, easy to pick up and learn.

[19:25] <+Gabe> The universe sense of S0urce Code (SC for short) is set to be opened ended, kinda like a world building tool, but it provides the tools to make that universe. Different races, character types, creatures, abilities, and the like.

[19:25] <+Gabe> There has been inspiration from mass effect, fallout, star wars, star trek, and a few other big sci-fi universes and you might see very subtle nods to those things but I also assure that, but we worked to make a balanced sense of familiarity with encountering something new.

[19:26] <+Gabe> We also tried to mix a fair bit of fantasy into it, like the inclusion of “magic” but making it more based on something that fits into science-fiction and so we started creating them based around the idea that everything in the SC universe has a Psionic Circuit, something that lets them tap into psionics but some character types can actually channel it

[Q&A] Paul Lell (Kalijor, Falling Stars)

[19:03] <+PaulLell> Hello!  My name is Paul Lell and I am an author, game designer, fashion designer, husband and father.

[19:03] <+PaulLell> I live in the Denver area, and have done for most of my life, where I went to school for engineering and graphic design (and never finished either degree).

[19:03] <+PaulLell> now make a living working for ‘a little known but major telecom company’ and write and play games in my ‘spare time’.

[19:03] <+PaulLell> I own and operate a small publishing company, Kalijor Press, that I use to do business and house my various creative endeavors.

[19:04] <+PaulLell> I currently have 8 novels in the SolSpace/Kalijor universe available in eBook and dead tree formats, plus one novella and three stand-alone short stories, all from Kalijor Press.

[19:04] <+PaulLell> I also have numerous SolSpace/Kalijor short stories in anthologies from Dragon Roots publishing.

[19:04] <+PaulLell> I have half a dozen novels in various stages of production (and post-production) for release over the next couple of years, including a couple that are not in the SolSpace/Kalijor universe (something new for any fans out there).

[19:04] <+PaulLell> Also, my publishing company, Kalijor Press, will be picking up and publishing stories from a couple new authors here in the next 18-24 months as well.

[19:04] <+PaulLell> As for games, I have the Kalijor RPG, the Kalijor: Kids RPG (which is really more of an RPG for beginners of all ages), and the most recent RPG, ‘Falling Stars’, published by Lock ‘n Load Publishing.

[19:05] <+PaulLell> ‘Falling Stars’ is a collaborative effort between myself and Chris McCown, a fellow local designer, and is a much more tactically focused RPG than my others, but that’s what LnL asked us to build for them.

[19:05] <+PaulLell> I have multiple games in development as well, including two different and new RPG’s (one of which is just an engine waiting for a good setting), a couple card games, and a couple board games.

[19:05] <+PaulLell> I don’t know which, if any, will ever see the light of day, but several have seen some limited alpha testing and at least look/sound promising.

[19:05] <+PaulLell> Okay. I think that’s it!

Jacob DC Ross (Kaigaku, a Samurai RPG)

02:06 +        JRoss |  So, Kaigaku is a samurai-themed RPG that draws inspiration from such sources as Toei’s Samurai Warriors series, the books of Takashi Matsuoka, real history and more.IT’s currently funding on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1059971838/kaigaku-a-samurai-rpg Think of it as an OSR L5R-type game.

[Q&A] James Gantry (Chronicles of Aerthe)

[19:02] <+JamesGantry> Ok I am James Gantry I am the creator of the Chronicles of Aerthe Fantasy RPG

[19:03] <~Dan> (Oh, and please give us a (done) when you’re ready for questions. 🙂 )

[19:03] <+JamesGantry> oh ok done