[Q&A] Bill Edmunds (The Bone Age)

<+BoneAgeBill> Okay! I’m Bill Edmunds, creator of the current Kicktarter RPG called The Bone Age. I’m also the author of the Red Mists RPG (a sword & sorcery RPG), and the Black Dragon OSR zine.

<+BoneAgeBill> I’ve been obsessed with RPGs since 1981, when I was introduced to OD&D and quickly advanced my first character to 450th level after killing the entirety of the Norse, Greek, and Egyptian pantheons.

<+BoneAgeBill> This latest endeavor, The Bone Age, is part of Kickstarter’s second Zine Quest campaign, which encourages designers to come up with small saddle stitched products that harken back to the 1980s when players would publish their own stuff using a typewriter, photocopier, and a bunch of staples!

<+BoneAgeBill> The Bone Age is set on a neolithic world where aliens have crashed their flying saucers, much to the alarm of the inhabitants!

[Q&A] Bill Reich (Glory Road)

<+BillR> My intention was to create a game where visualization and narration were aided by a concrete system that told the players

<+BillR> and the GM what had happened

<+BillR> I wanted to minimize abstraction that did not greatly ease learning or sped up play. I thought I could model what was happening without so much abstraction or conflating one thing with another.

<+BillR> . Just as important, I thought I could do this while not making the game difficult or slowing it down. For around forty years, players and GMs have thought I succeeded. (Done)

[Q&A] Thorin Tabor (Age of Ambition)

<+Thorin> Hello! I’m Thorin Tabor. I’ve written a few other games in the past — Against the Dark Yogi, Shadows Over Sol, Dime Adventures — but I’m here today to talk about my latest game: Age of Ambition.

<+Thorin> It’s currently Kickstarting: (Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tabcreations/age-of-ambition-forward-facing-fantasy-roleplaying)https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tabcreations/age-of-ambition-forward-facing-fantasy-roleplaying

<+Thorin> Age of Ambition is a game set in a fantasy world which is rapidly leaving the traditional fantasy milieu behind.

<+Thorin> It was once a traditional sort of fantasy setting, but time has moved on and its evolving into… something else.

<+Thorin> And the players characters are at the forefront of this change, helping guide the world into whatever it is to become.

<+Thorin> And this follows a trend which I’ve noticed in fantasy literature. No longer are fantasy worlds these static things with no significant technological, magical or social progress. They’re evolving, they’re changing. And that’s an aspect that I want to help bring to the tabletop.

<+Thorin> So I’ve written this game.

<+Thorin> It’s inspired by a variety of fantasy fiction, most prominently including: Joe Abercrombie’s First Law series, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, Scott Lynch’s Gentleman Bastard series and Brian McClellan’s Powder Mage trilogies.

<+Thorin> Socially and culturally, the world is rapidly advancing from its equivalent of Earth’s Middle Ages, into what might be called the Early Modern era. This is giving rise to new ways of thinking, and to advances in both magic and technology.

<+Thorin> And you, as a player character, may be helping make some of those advances. (Or alternatively, trying to push back against them.)

[Q&A] Mike Martens (Sunken)

<+MikeMartens> Well, I’m Mike Martens … I’m the writer/designer/creator of Sunken, which is currently in its funding campaign on Kickstarter. It’s a game of nautical horror, taking the one-shot-of-doom structure of Jesse Ross’s Trophy and steering it toward a gothic sea setting. Sea monsters and wooden ships and haunting saints and all that type of

<+MikeMartens> thing. I’m fairly new to the RPG scene as a whole … started my design aspirations hacking Dungeon World, but that’s grown into bigger things, including this zine and a fully homegrown game called Steel Weeds that’s a reimagining of the Western / Weird West genres.

<+MikeMartens> (Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mikemartens/sunken)https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mikemartens/sunken

<+MikeMartens> Professionally, I’m a brand and UX copywriter, and have done some design and photography work as well. That’s transferred into this discipline pretty nicely.

<+MikeMartens> And, some random tidbits … I lived in the Midwest most of my life (Chicago and Milwaukee), but moved out to Los Angeles a few years ago, and am generally enjoying the surprisingly laid-back vibe of its east side.

<+MikeMartens> I’ll leave it at that so that we have things to talk about in depth. 😀

[Q&A] Brendan Davis (Strange Tales of Pu Songling)

<+BedrockBrendan> My name is Brendan Davis, from Bedrock Games. The game is Strange Tales of Songling, an RPG inspired by Chinese accounts of the supernatural

[Q&A] Shawn Kaufman (Knuckledragger: Browser-Based RPG)

<+KD_ScienceLady> Knuckledragger is a virtual tabletop RPG which is a virtual tabletop with it’s own built in game system and universe

[Q&A] Shawn Conlin (Akmei’s Spellbook)

<+Shawn> Greetings all. I’m Shawn. I’m a gamer, writer, dabbler in arts, and software tester. I wanted let you know about one of the kickstarters I am doing as part of Zine Quest 2, Akmei’s Spellbook https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spconlin/akmeis-spellbook?ref=Randomworlds. The zine will be a collection of spells for D&D 5e based on the antics of

<+Shawn> classic cartoon characters. If you have ever wanted to allow a character to create a doorway through which your enemies can’t follow you or to walk across a gap between cliffs so long as they don’t look down then this is the spellbook you’ve been waiting for.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spconlin/akmeis-spellbook?fbclid=IwAR02K8KWkNuA5ew0C-dKkuqvk2RdJPd3T-qd2rMBgMoqtCS-1QbYVu5WfXM

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spconlin/akmeis-spellbook?fbclid=IwAR02K8KWkNuA5ew0C-dKkuqvk2RdJPd3T-qd2rMBgMoqtCS-1QbYVu5WfXM