[Q&A] Daniel Prisco-Buxbaum (Omega Horizon)

<+PaleoGaming> Hey everyone, my name is Dan Prisco-Buxbaum, and I am the owner of Paleo Gaming. We started out as a small esports company, but have recently branched out into ttrpg publishing.

<+PaleoGaming> We are currently working on our first ttrpg, a sci-fi game called Omega Horizon, which is currently live on Kickstarter (56% funded, with 4 days remaining in the campaign). That can be found here: (Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paleogaming/omega-horizon)https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paleogaming/omega-horizon

<+PaleoGaming> You can also find out more about us at (Link: http://www.paleogaming.com)www.paleogaming.com or for specifics about Omega Horizon you can visit (Link: http://www.omega-horizon.com)www.omega-horizon.com

[Q&A] Derek Sotak (Grey Seas Are Dreaming Of My Death: A William Hope Hodgson RPG)

<+Derek> Hello everyone, my name is Derek Sotak and I’m here to talk a little bit about my new game Grey Seas are Dreaming of my Death, which is a rpg set in the world of William Hope Hodgson’s Sargasso Sea stories.

<+Derek> I started off writing, and still do write for, the nacho website Nachonomics.com which got me into writing in general, but I’ve been playing rpgs since 1992 when one of my friends introduced me to Call of Cthulhu and said “It’s based on Lovecraft’s work. You know who that is right?”

<+Derek> I did not since I was probably 9 or 10 at the time, but that got me into the whole world of both rpgs and weird fiction.

<+Derek> Jump forwards 20+ years, Nachonomics is hitting it off, I kickstart a few books on nachos (The Field Guide to Nachos; Nachos & You, Living Your Life the Nacho Way; and Recipes from the Nachonomicon) and those go very well and give me an overall favorable opinion on Kickstarter in general.

<+Derek> After that I’d written almost everything there was to write about nachos and my mind turned to what else I could do for a future project. I liked rpgs, I liked weird fiction, why not combine the two? Another while passes, I get involved in the horror podcast The Horror of Nachos and Hamantaschen, and we cover a collection of William Hope Hodgson

<+Derek> stories and the idea that there’s something here comes to me.

<+Derek> H.P. Lovecraft has gotten 95% of all the fame in the turn of the 20th century horror rpg field, maybe there’s room for the other authors to shine. Maybe there’s room for the vastly underappreciated WHH to have his own game. And so there came Grey Seas are Dreaming of my Death.

<+Derek> And that is the summary up to now.

[Q&A] Ashram Kain & Brandon Miller (Deviant Evolution)

<+Kain> Hi you wonderful Gamers! My name is Ash Kain, and I am here with Brandon, and created Deviant Evolution and the Promethium System. done

<+Kain> So, we’re late, but I really wanted to tel you about deviant.

<+Kain> First off you can play the lite rules right now. They are on DriveThruRPG. And we want you to play. Because the rules are addictive and fun.

<+Kain> We engineered the rules to take a unique stance in ttrpgs in that they mechanically had to have a fun factor in and of themselves. The Setting, Deviant Evolution is really unique in ttrpgs. Its not modern, and its not fantasy. But it has elements of both. We have been describing it as diesel punk. We have a tone of classes

<+Kain> but only like 5 backgrounds

<+Kain> but, i would love to answer questions so (Done)

[Q&A] Chance Holzwart (Mission Decks)

<+ChancefromNorCalMythos> Hi there! My name is Chance Holzwart and I’m one of the game designers from Nor Cal Mythos Entertainment. I’m here to talk about Mission Decks kickstarter which is live right now

<+ChancefromNorCalMythos> The Mission Decks are a ttrpg tool designed to let players explore a dungeon, meet NPCs, face encounters, complete a quest, and level up their characters all without a DM

[Q&A] Tom McGrenery (The Elephant & Macaw Banner Roleplaying Game)

<+Tom> Hi everyone — I’m Tom, and I am the translator and publisher of The Elephant & Macaw Banner Roleplaying Game, a game of muskets & magic in 16th-century Brazil.

<+Tom> I got started as an RPG writer around the year 2000, contributing to books for Feng Shui and Heavy Gear. Since then I’ve written sourcebooks and adventures for game lines including Night’s Black Agents (GUMSHOE), Mutant Chronicles, and Infinity.

<+Tom> In 2015, I started my own modest imprint, Porcupine Publishing, which is how I publish my own games and English translations of RPG books by other people.

<+Tom> The Elephant & Macaw Banner RPG is my latest translated game and my biggest translated project to date — it’s already an entire game line in Brazil.

<+Tom> The Kickstarter for a print run of the core book is live right now at (Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1690011586/the-elephant-and-macaw-banner-roleplaying-game)https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1690011586/the-elephant-and-macaw-banner-roleplaying-game

<+Tom> EAMB is based on a fiction series by the game’s designer Christopher Kastensmidt. Like the stories, the game is about fun fantasy adventure, and it’s suitable both for young adults and mature players.

<+Tom> The mechanics are deliberately simple (3d6 rolls handle everything) but provide interesting choices to make in, for example, battle scenes.

<+Tom> For people who already have their own games going, I’d say the big attraction will be the bestiary of creatures from Brazilian folklore. Each one has the kernel of an adventure based around it.

[Q&A] Kade Tanner (Touch of Power)

<+Kade> My name is Kade Tanner. I have been working on Touch of Power since 2003. Its a fantasy based game where players get a lot of freedom to design and build the character they want to venture forth in lengthy, epic adventures in the world of Theza. Right now there are two core rule books. Book 1 released over a week ago and the second is

<+Kade> still being written. Each book offers 8 different races each with lore, history, beliefs where a player can choose from. There are 10 classes to pick for your character in each book but you know how in many games where you usually are stuck on a straight path once you pick a class? Touch of Power highly encourages class hopping where you may start

<+Kade> off as a bandit but decide you want to learn magic for example, you could go into mage and eventually be well versed on casting offensive magic and stealing! If you want to diversify your character you can class hop as much as you like. Just master any one of the basic classes and you can go into any advanced class!

<+Kade> the game has gone over many versions of itself over the years, where it is now is the best version of itself to date

[Q&A] Rich Forest (A Visitor’s Guide to the Rainy City)

<+rforest> I’m Rich Forest

<+rforest> I’m an English teacher, somehow!

<+rforest> I’m a linguist, technically speaking.

<+rforest> Anyway, boring.

<+rforest> I love roleplaying games.

<+rforest> And I’m writing this thing.

<+rforest> Uploaded file: (Link: https://uploads.kiwiirc.com/files/192493a9051e6f583cfde846bddda8ea/pasted.txt)https://uploads.kiwiirc.com/files/192493a9051e6f583cfde846bddda8ea/pasted.txt

<+rforest> (Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/the-abzu/a-visitors-guide-to-the-rainy-city/)https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/the-abzu/a-visitors-guide-to-the-rainy-city/

<+rforest> It’s called “A Visitor’s Guide to the Rainy City”

<+rforest> And it’s a system-agnostic setting (I’ve used it with a bunch of different RPG systems over the years, some more than others)

<+rforest> It’s a urban post apocalypctic 17th century-ish kitchen sink elemental (water natch) city setting.

<+rforest> You can use it as is or you can strip mine it for details, I don’t care. My writing is not holy. It’s just idea gumbo.

<+rforest> I think it’s *good* idea gumbo, but I’m biased.

<+rforest> Better, my friend Bill is doing all the art in a wood block print style to evoke the period.

<+rforest> That’s probably enough of me just going blah blah blah

[Q&A] Ray Machuga (Modern: Afterlife – Book of the Dead)

<+RayM> Hiya! I’m Ray Machuga, owner of Higher Grounds Publishing and Never Better Games. Today I’m bringing you the spooky goodness of Modern Necromancy | The Book of the Dead. It’s a supplement and setting expansion for the Modern RPG Universe that gives players the ability to play Undead and Necromancers, and gives GMs the chance to add a little death ro their gam

<+RayM> *game!

<+RayM> You can find the Modern RPG Core Book here: (Link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/259006/Modern)https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/259006/Modern

<+RayM> We’ve also got a great Elfen supplement that was also Kickstarter and released. You can find the Book of Elves Here: (Link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/296010/Book-Of-Elves)https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/296010/Book-Of-Elves

[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)