[Q&A] Christopher Peter (Fight! 2nd Edition)

<+ChristopherPeter> Hello, everyone! My name is Christopher Peter and I am the author of Fight! Fight! is a RPG that emulates the characters and stories found in traditional fighting video games such as Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, etc.

<+ChristopherPeter> The rules are specifically designed to capture the feel of how combat works in fighting games, which creates a lot of fun tactical opportunities.

<+ChristopherPeter> Players get to design their own Special Moves (a little like superpowers in supers RPGs), so every fighter plays differently.

<+ChristopherPeter> The game was originally designed on 1996, largely as a response to WW’s Street Fighter game.  The game looked a lot different back in the ’90s!

<+ChristopherPeter> This version of the game began in 2006 and was published finally in 2010.  Now, after 9 years, I decided to get the 2nd Edition out there!

[Q&A] Jason Durall & Patric Götz (Dark Conspiracy)

<+DC-Jason> I’m Jason Durall, line editor for the new Dark Conspiracy game. I’ve been a gamer for about 38 years, since convincing my parents to buy the 1st edition D&D from the Sears catalog at Christmas. I’ve been working in the pen-and-paper game industry as a freelancer for about 25 years on and off and worked in computer games for 15 years.

<+DC-Jason> I also moonlight as the line editors for Conan, from Modiphius, and RuneQuest, from Chaosium.

<+SilentPat> Okay – my name is Patric Goetz and i’m the owner of Clockwork Publishing (Uhrwerk Verlag) in germany. We publish 2-3 books each month for various game lines. I’m more of a sidekick in this chat,  since Jason our main editor knows way more about the new DC then me. I CAN however answer “technical” questions about the crowdfunding, i hope 😉

<+DC-Jason> The game is Dark Conspiracy, based on the original Lester Smith game first published in 1991 by GDW. It’s an action-horror game with an emphasis on investigation and combat, set in a dystopian future world where an alien horror is infiltrating human society and destroying the world.

<+DC-Jason> This is the 4th edition, the first to make significant changes to the rules and setting.

<+DC-Jason> We’re staying true to the themes and tone of the original, and it’s definitely the same game, but we’re modernizing some of the treatment of the setting and the rules have been streamlined and updated for easier, faster play.

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

<+Ninjacat> Hello, Everyone! Josh “Ninjacat” Brining, here, creator of the I WAS A TEENAGE CREATURE role-playing game, now running a crowd-funding campaign on Kickstarter.

<+Ninjacat> IWATC is a narrative-focused young adult tabletop RPG where the PCs are teenage (or early 20s. or even semi-traumatized full-adults!) paranormal creatures, in the vein of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, “Charmed”, “Teen Wolf”, “Supernatural

<+Ninjacat> “, etc.

<+Ninjacat> (darn ENTER being next to quotes…)

<+Ninjacat> What keeps the fans of the urban fantasy genre coming back for every episode of these shows; why is Supernatural on its 14th season and Buffy is still popular over 20 years after its debut?

<+Ninjacat> Is it the monster of the week?

<+Ninjacat> No, it’s the angst and drama of the main characters’ lives. In this game, you play a character who could star on such a show, dealing with the paranormal as well as the drama of teen life.

<+Ninjacat> In IWATC, it doesn’t matter how strong my Werewolf is, or how fast his Vampire is, or how beautiful her Fae is…what matters is how each of these characters FEELS, /why/ they’re doing something, and not just how capable they are of doing it.

<+Ninjacat> IWATC’s dice system is simple, Xd10s rolled for 1 of 4 stats, maybe plus a few relevant Skill dice…rolled vs. the PC’s chosen Emotion. Each die that surpasses the Emotion in the correct direction is a Success; if enough Successes are rolled to meet the Difficulty of the action, the PC succeeds.

<+Ninjacat> It’s all about telling your character’s Story, making them as awesome and dramatic as they can be, with the GM putting them through the emotional wringer. (DONE)

[Q&A] Shawn Carman (Infinity’s Edge)

<+ShawnCarman> Hello! I’m Shawn Carman, and I’ve been working in gaming since… I think 1998? Most of my work has been for Alderac Entertainment Group, but I’ve worked with FFG, Green Ronin, West End Games, Gallant Knight Games, and a few others.

<+ShawnCarman> In 2013 I formed Kyoudai Games to launch the Thunderscape brand in both Pathfinder and Savage Worlds. That’s been our only game up until a few weeks ago.

<+ShawnCarman> Right now, we have a new game on Kickstarter called Infinity’s Edge. It’s a new system that was not originally planned for publication, but just for me and my local group to mess around with. But things kind of… snowballed from there.

<+Kain> hahaha, awesome.

<+ShawnCarman> Infinity’s Edge is inspired by the LitRPG genre of fiction, in which players log into fully immersive virtual reality MMOs and play their avatars for long periods of time. Often in the novels, they’re unable to log out and are trapped in the game.

[Q&A] Wade Dyer (Fragged RPGs)

<+Wade> G’day all. I’m Wade Dyer, the creator of the Fragged RPG. I do this full time from my Australian home office, and I currently have a number of settings that all use the core Fragged Empire rules – Empire (sci-fi), Aeternum (gothic horror), Kingdom (fantasy), Seas (pirates) and Diesel Punk Mecha.

<+Wade> I will be running a Kickstarter this year for 3 new Region based books (lots of Maps and Lore) for Empire, Kingdom and Aeterum. But this Q&A session is not just about this, its for anything you want to talk to me about

<+Wade> And I mean ANYTHING!! 😉 From world building to business to working from home.

[Q&A] Eric Bloat (The Blackest of Deaths – A Dire Old School Fantasy RPG)

<+EricfromBloatGames> Hi everyone!  I’m Eric Bloat from Bloat Games.  I’m the Creator of SURVIVE THIS!! Zombies!, Dark Places & Demogorgons and Vigilante CIty to name a few but tonight I’m here to talk about my newest creation which it now funding on Kickstarter.  It’s an RPG entitled, The Blackest of Deaths.

[Q&A] Juan Herrera (Monsterpunk)

<+JMH_Monsterpunk> Alrighty, so my name is Juan Herrera and I’m the creator of Monsterpunk, a post-apocalyptic RPG of humans, monsters and humans becoming monsters. In it, Player Characters make life-binding pacts with magical creatures to survive in a harsh world dominated by monsters. If it helps you can think of it as Devilman meets Fallout.

<+JMH_Monsterpunk> The broad strokes of the rules of Monsterpunk is that they are effects-based and action-oriented. That means the focus is on what you do rather than how you do it, making it very easy to reskin characters. The roleplaying mechanics make every roll interesting and the combat rules are tactical yet have very little math. Or, well, at least as little as I can

<+JMH_Monsterpunk> get away with. Done.

[Q&A] Nick Zachariasen (METAL WORLD)

<+Nick_Zachariasen> I’m Nick Zachariasen, a recovering lawyer in South Dakota who currently works in IT. I’ve written METAL WORLD (← note the all caps), which is a heavy metal-themed tabletop RPG. The setting’s baseline is set at merely over the top, with your group deciding how nuts you want the action to get!

<+Nick_Zachariasen> I’ve seen people describe it as “gonzo” and I think that works about as well as any single word can to describe in a single word what METAL WORLD is.

[Q&A] Jacob Randolph (Fellowship 2nd Edition)

<+JacobRandolph> Hello! I am Jacob Randolph, author of Fellowship, Final Bid, and Panic at the Dojo. Fellowship 2e just launched this month, and also a kickstarter campaign to fund two more books for it.

<+JacobRandolph> Fellowship is a game about collaborative adventure in a fantasy world of your own creation. It emphasizes player input and cooperative worldbuilding, and the GM gets their own character – The Overlord – to destroy all those nice things everyone built, giving them plenty of investment in stopping the Overlord.

[Q&A] Christian Brown (Starship Valkyrie)

<+ChristianBrown> Hi Everyone, I’m Christian Brown and I’m the creator of Starship Valkyrie, a live action game in Southern California.

<+ChristianBrown> Starship Valkyrie is a live action, cooperative, sci fi role-playing game, and it’s been running as multiple interconnected campaigns in L.A. since 2010.

<+ChristianBrown> There are two rulesets, Basic and Advanced. I run the Basic rules for conventions and demos.

<+ChristianBrown> There’s a video of gameplay on the web, here: (Link: https://www.facebook.com/134298213272664/videos/3078712086390/)https://www.facebook.com/134298213272664/videos/3078712086390/

<+ChristianBrown> That video focuses on the starfighter pilots.

<+ChristianBrown> The game is played in 5 sections, each section has a separate job to do, and they all work together to complete the ship’s mission.

<+ChristianBrown> Bridge, Engineering, Science, Medical and Starfighters.

<+ChristianBrown> So, at this point, unless there are specific questions already, I think I might crib from the Basic rules to give you some idea of how it’s played.