Time War
Linear time is a blasted curse! Apparently, these days, you can’t have a full time job, a home life, take part in four to five sessions of RPGs in a week and still manage to update your blog on a Wednesday and a Sunday as well! To hell with it! That’s what I say! I’m doing it anyway! It might be half-arsed and it might not be precisely what I wanted to write about but I’m going have my blog and eat it too!
Going to promote a couple of things I think you should know about, dear reader. These are worthwhile things that you should get in on.
Friends of Melsonia
The Melsonian Arts Council, who are responsible for such TTRPG high-points as Troika! and Swyvers has a subscription service. Now, I will be the first one to hold up my hands and admit that I have been critical of literally everything becoming a subscription. Still, I love being a Friend of Melsonia. I say that in the least cultish way possible, I think?
The goal Daniel Sell and the rest of the Melsonian Arts Council are trying to achieve is to reduce or remove their dependency on crowdfunding efforts for every new project. Crowdfunding takes up a considerable amount of effort that these incredible artists could better spend on their creativity. That’s why I support it.
If you sign up for Friends of Melsonia for £10 a month (other currencies will, I assume, require different amounts, but Melsonia are UK based so I’m going with pounds sterling) they will send you a copy of every book they produce while your subscription is active. If that were all you were getting it would be a saving of a few dozen pounds, but on top of that, you will get exclusive stuff too! Just check out the new cover art on this version of Troika that I received in the first Friends of Melsonia delivery on Monday.
And the latest in their series of Troika location based adventures, the 1:5 Series. Eye of the Aeons has Cyclopes and snails.
AND, as if all that wasn’t enough, I also got this turtle with the power of sword and armour in postcard form.
Go join up if you can!
Cosmic Dark Kickstarter
If you have been here for the last few months, you have probably noticed me mention Cosmic Dark a couple of times. Go check out those other posts for more information on this great game. So far I have only played one session of it, but it was one of the best sessions of the year so far. Also, I have another one coming up tomorrow evening.
Graham Walmsley comes with some impressive bona fides. He is the creator of Cthulhu Dark, which was something of a high water mark in the rules-light indie RPG scene that spawned a bevvy of fun hacks such as Alien Dark, which I was lucky enough to play last year. Graham also wrote Stealing Cthulhu and has contributed to some other well known indie RPGs like Fiasco and The Laundry.
The Kickstarter for Cosmic Dark is live now! It funded in under 3 hours yesterday! There is a special Launch Edition which is only available for the first 48 hours, which means you can still get it at the time I’m publishing this post and, on top of that, there are some fantastic stretch goals being reached right now. This will mean contributions from such RPG luminaries as Alyssa Griffiths, Kieron Gillen, Scott Dorward, Thomas Manuel, Jeeyon Shim and Grant Howitt. So get over there and back that thing! I want all the weird space shit these guys can throw at me.
The Dice Pool 