[Q&A] J.P. Starsey (Tangent Space)

[05-May-21 07:35 PM] Panaxiom#6316
I’m JP Starsey, creator of Tangent Space. Just a nerdy black gay guy with way too much geek stuff rolling around in my head.

Tangent Space (TS from now on) is an optimistic space opera roleplaying game set a thousand years in the future. It’s a custom skills-based system with no classes, no character levels, and no base attributes. The setting is a nascent galactic utopia, with safe and secure core worlds surrounded by dangerous frontier, ancient secrets, and new adventures to discover.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jpstarsey/tangent-space-rpg

[Q&A] Brian Umberger (Modern5E)

[04-May-21 07:31 PM] Umbyology#1966
Greetings! … I’m B.A. Umberger … Gamer. Designer. Writer. Publisher. Husband. Father. Grandfather. Driver. Ketogenic. INFJ.

I’m a bit of a one-man show. Over the years, I have accumulated experience in commissioned sales, business management, copy creation, typesetting, page layout, graphic design, cartography, prepress, and offset press operations. I also have experience in technical writing, editing, roleplaying game mechanics, tabletop RPG design, database management, plus website development. I have vast experience with design software, including Adobe and Affinity products and everything in-between, including 3D modeling and rendering applications.

[04-May-21 07:32 PM] Umbyology#1966
Over 40 years of experience with tabletop roleplaying games and mechanics set me on this course; perhaps I should see where my dreams take me. These passions bring me to my current goals: to work on developing a tabletop roleplaying game and campaign world wherein I can create my own adventures and stories. My new publishing company Juxtagames, LLC, is a testament to those goals.

[04-May-21 07:34 PM] Umbyology#1966
My current project is known as Modern5E … a ‘modern’ OGL retro-clone RPG updated to the 5th Edition game mechanics and will utilize classic ‘modern’ OGL Standard Reference Document [SRD] content – in combination with the D&D SRD v5.1 – to create a unique ruleset for modern action-adventure!

[04-May-21 07:34 PM] Umbyology#1966
Currently running a Kickstarter at … https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/juxtagames/modern5e-core-rulebook

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/juxtagames/modern5e-core-rulebook

[Q&A] Kevin Pimbblet (Legacy of the Soul Flame)

[01-May-21 03:00 PM] jabberjabber#8449
Salutations and Greeting everyone!

[01-May-21 03:01 PM] jabberjabber#8449
I’m Kevin Pimbblet, and the owner of Sequestered Industries, an Indie roleplaying publisher established in 2013/4. I’m here today to talk about our new offering: Legacy of the Soul Flame, which is on Kickstarter right now. Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kevinpimbblet/legacy-of-the-soul-flame

[01-May-21 03:01 PM] jabberjabber#8449
A bit of background then. Professionally, I am an astrophysicist and have worked at a variety of universities and institutes in the UK and Australia during my career. Dan mentioned to me that I could type a bit at this point, so I will take him up on that offer to give a bit of context for everyone.

[01-May-21 03:02 PM] jabberjabber#8449
I imagine like most of you, I’ve been involved in tabletop gaming since I was young. At the risk of showing my age, I remember my first forays into RPGs and things like Warhammer happened when Ronald Reagan was president and Margaret Thatcher was prime minister (and as a shout out to my Aussie mates, when Bob Hawke was PM there). I always liked playing and DM’ing games, and when I was in my early 20’s got recruited by TSR to run some of their events in the UK on weekends.

[01-May-21 03:02 PM] jabberjabber#8449
As my playing groups and I aged, we thought more about the sort of campaigns that we enjoyed.

[01-May-21 03:02 PM] jabberjabber#8449
What worked, and what could be improved.

[01-May-21 03:02 PM] jabberjabber#8449
What systems we liked, and what we didn’t want to mess with ever again.

[01-May-21 03:03 PM] jabberjabber#8449
It took a lot of gestation, and some serious late-night work, but I eventually published “Astulae” some 7 years ago. It was a take on a mega-dungeon concept for mixed sci-fi and fantasy, and proved successful in its own right.

[01-May-21 03:03 PM] jabberjabber#8449
Emboldened, this was followed by a lengthy series of supplement publications ranging from Alternate Histories, Planets, and Non-magical Items, through to Dungeon History generators and Archipelago generators.

[01-May-21 03:03 PM] jabberjabber#8449
I’m going to switch now to Legacy of the Soul Flame, since that is the main reason I’m here today (although I am more than happy to discuss games like Astulae too later on if people wish to ask about it).

[01-May-21 03:04 PM] jabberjabber#8449
Legacy of the Soul Flame is our newest offering (available now on Kickstarter! — see the link above), but is, in fact, a much older personal campaign from >20 years prior that has undergone a couple of iterations already.

[01-May-21 03:04 PM] jabberjabber#8449
I still have notes from that time on a shelf, printed out by an ancient inkjet printer (I wonder if I have any dot matrix print outs lurking somewhere!).

[01-May-21 03:04 PM] jabberjabber#8449
Trying to be succinct (and apologies to those of you who have already read the tagline), it is an epic noble-dark roleplaying game campaign setting of undead, snow & ice, exploration, and blood-ties.

[01-May-21 03:05 PM] jabberjabber#8449
The book is done and ready to go, barring the changes arising from the Kickstarter campaign (and a final read through).

[01-May-21 03:05 PM] jabberjabber#8449

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[01-May-21 03:05 PM] jabberjabber#8449
Okay – that’s probably a lengthy introduction. So I will invite questions at this point! (done).

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kevinpimbblet/legacy-of-the-soul-flame