[Q&A] Michale Hansen (Rebirth)

[20:44] <+RebirthTeam> Hello everyone, My name is Michael Hansen and I will be talking about our new Tabletop RPG, Rebirth. Rebirth focuses on bringing variety to the modern tabletop.

[20:45] <+RebirthTeam> We have professions devoted entirely to crafting. That being said, we didn’t forget to show love for the classic combat, support, and RP classes as well

[20:45] <+RebirthTeam> The system uses the high risk high reward concept, challenging players to take risks in hope of great payoffs.

[20:46] <+RebirthTeam> I look forward to answering your questions.

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[Q&A] Alan Bahr (Tiny Wastelands)

 

[19:31] <&NM_Alan> Hi folks! I am Alan Bahr of Nocturnal Media & Gallant Knight Games, and I’m here to talk about Tiny Wastelands, the third TinyD6 game to come out from GKG! It’s a minimalist, rule-lite game designed to be fast to play, easy to set up, and quick to teach! We’re currently on Kickstarter and less than $300 away from our next stretch goal

[19:31] <&NM_Alan> Yes, that means we’re funded

[19:31] <&NM_Alan> (Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gallantknightgames/tiny-wastelands-post-apocalyptic-minimalist-rolepl?ref=creator_nav)https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gallantknightgames/tiny-wastelands-post-apocalyptic-minimalist-rolepl?ref=creator_nav

[19:31] <&NM_Alan> Feel free to ask me about this game, the past ones, or future ones! Or anything else.

[Q&A] Josh Brining (I Was a Teenage Creature)

[19:37] <+Ninjacat> Hey, Everybody, Josh “Ninjacat” Brining here, author of I WAS A TEENAGE CREATURE. I’ve been involved in urban fantasy gaming for quite a while, running Buffy the Vampire Slayer games at Gen Con since its first release, and I was on the playtest team with Margaret Weis Productions for the Supernatural RPG in 2009.

[19:39] <+Ninjacat> (Actually, I was running SPN events at Gen Con as far back as 2007, using C J Carrella’s WitchCraft system. My claim to fame for the SPN game was that the monster chapter didn’t have the Shapeshifters in it until I said something…you know, it’s only the monster that THE FREAKIN’ SHOW MADE UP, lol.)

[19:41] <+Ninjacat> So, eventually I decided to try my hand at creating my own urban fantasy game, and I had to decide how I could make it “different”. What keeps the viewers coming back to Buffy or Teen Wolf or SPN, or any other urban fantasy show/book/franchise? Is it the monster of the week? No, it’s the angst & drama of the main characters’ lives.

[19:42] <+Ninjacat> It’s the emotional content of those shows, whether it’s surviving a literal hell of high school, or Saving People and Hunting Things, or whatever. Most RPGs only have the emotional content that the Players bring to the table, getting into character, etc., but I wanted to make the emotions actually PART of the game.

[19:43] <+Ninjacat> So…I did. (We’ll get to that with the game mechanics and character sheet, in a moment.)

[Q&A] Tove & Anders Gillbring (Western)

 

[21:14] <+Askfageln> We are Tove & Anders Gillbring, the people behind the Swedish gaming publisher Åskfågeln (thunderbird but in Swedish)

[21:14] <+Askfageln> And now we are here to talk about Western the Roleplaying game, our pet project since back in the eighties

[21:15] <+Askfageln> It has happened a lot with the game ever since, but now we felt ready to go International with it

[21:15] <+Askfageln> You might have hear about other things we do, such as the Swedish gaming magazine Fenix, the Swedish edition of Lone Wolf, the photo book DICE – Rendezvous with Randomness or Freeway Warrior

[21:16] <+Askfageln> Design decisions behind Western?

[21:16] <+Askfageln> 1. It is a game to be played, to do more than one thing and to come back to time and time again for new gaming experiences, but based in the same setting

[21:17] <+Askfageln> So a BIG game

[21:17] <+Askfageln> Design decision 11?

[21:17] <+Askfageln> 2

[21:17] <+Askfageln> Give the players and the GM lots of choices

[21:17] <+Askfageln> We know our gamers, and what that means is that they want very different things from a game

[21:18] <+Askfageln> We have tried to accomodate that through creating a giant tool box, with game mechanics to help and enhance whatever style of play or flavor of the day the players seek in their wild west game

[21:19] <+Askfageln> So. Your turn! What do you wanna know?

[Q&A] Paolo Guccione & Rose Loughran (Red Moon Rising)

21:31 <+PaoloGuccione> So, I willl start

21:32 <+PaoloGuccione> I have been making rpgs for almost… errr, no, it is already ten years. Ten full years.

21:33 <+PaoloGuccione> Started with Stupor Mundi in 2007, then in 2009 Peter Nash joined us with his fabulous Rome Life and Death of the Republic

21:33 <+PaoloGuccione> and we attracted the attention of Cubicle 7, and won one Ennie at GenCon 2010

21:33 <+PaoloGuccione> after which we have done various rpg books

21:34 <+PaoloGuccione> BRP Mecha and Revolution D100 are the ones we have already talked about here on #rpgnet

21:35 <+PaoloGuccione> we also publish in Italian and French

21:35 <+PaoloGuccione> Catthulhu being our most successful product in these languages

21:35 <+PaoloGuccione> with Red Moon RIsing we want to try cross-media interaction

21:36 <+PaoloGuccione> comics, fiction, games… all forms of entertainment helping one another

[Q&A] David Prizio (Triten Gaming System)

[19:30] <+DavidPrizio> So hello to everyone and thanks for being here for the Q&A for the Triten Gaming System!  I’m David and I’m the project creator and lead designer for Triten.  This started out many years ago as one of those little hobby side projects and it sort of grew into this crazy thing that it is today over years and countless playtest campaigns.

[19:31] <+DavidPrizio> So what Triten is… I think the best way to describe it is that it’s a whole new toolbox to use for pen and paper roleplaying games, our first version here being specifically focused on medieval fantasy.

[19:32] <+DavidPrizio> The ultimate goal was to aim for the sweet spot between maximum simplicity and maximum versatility, and I feel very confident that we got really close to getting really close to where we were aiming.

[Q&A] Todd Crapper (High Plains Samurai)

[19:30] <+WardenHPS> I’m Todd Crapper (yes, that’s real) and I’m the creator and future publisher of High Plains Samurai, an ultimate mash-up of western gunslingers, arctic barbarians, samurai warriors, Prohibition era gangsters, steampunk engineers, and superpower mutants in a post-apocalyptic world fighting against a divine war that threatens to wipe out their homeland.

[19:30] <+WardenHPS> (Which can be a mouthful to say for an entire month, let me tell you.)