Tabletop RPGs

[Paul le Fou]

I haven't had the chance to buy or look into it yet, but Tom Bloom (of Lancer and Icon and Kill Six Billion Demons) just released a new TTRPG:

CAIN by Tom Bloom

Psychic death soldiers in a quest to purge humanity's stain

tombloom.itch.io

Humanity is cursed, host to a roiling psychic sea barely understood or controlled, a phenomenon arising purely from the darkest portions of the human soul. While most humans are blissfully unaware of its presence, others are more sensitive. When it grows wild in these hosts, SINS appear, terrifying supernatural monsters that are anathema to reality itself.


CAIN is the solution, the global supranational shadow organization dedicated solely to the hunting and execution of sins. It’s mission is clear, its purpose steadfast. Is there anything better than a good hunt? Just think, you’re all set to slaughter to your heart’s content.


YOU are an exorcist, a powerful psychic soldier and tool of CAIN, honed and wielded for one purpose:


WIPE OUT THE STAIN


From Tom Bloom (Magnagothica Maleghast/Lancer RPG): a new narrative role playing game about playing psychic death soldiers hunting monstrosities made of human trauma. So it goes.


Includes:

• Rules for making exorcists, powerful psychic soldiers on a campaign of extermination. Nascent monstrosities themselves, they must struggle against the limits of their own expanding powers and bodies.
• Rules for creating sins, psychic abominations created when their hosts' latent psychic powers burst free of their body, spurred on by trauma and suffering. Unraveling the mysteries behind their birth and the tragic circumstances of their hosts can weaken them and be used as a weapon in the final confrontation, lending equal weight to investigation and combat.
• Rules for running hunts: tense investigations that culminate in a climactic execution scene inside of the lair of the beast
• Character sheets and hunt sheets for easy organization
• Over 150 pages of insanity, art, and stickers with an aesthetic inspired by lo-fi manga, visual collage, and barber beats album covers.
• There's two versions of the text to download, one with embedded fonts and another without (I recommend embedded)

Slash, and slash, and SLASH AWAY. UNTIL IT IS DONE.

 

[Becksworth]

Ys has a TTRPG now?

I'm not sure why all these niche JRPGs are suddenly getting TTRPG adaptations, but I'm patiently awaiting the Xenogears one now.

 

[Beowulf]

I'm not sure why all these niche JRPGs are suddenly getting TTRPG adaptations, but I'm patiently awaiting the Xenogears one now.

I feel like it's a combination of "publishing a ttrpg has never been cheaper" and "none of the old IP holders seem to care enough to C&D these."

Of course, I'd be more excited if I hadn't already run campaigns based on most of these games using my own hacks, some of them years ago. Ultramodern worked well for Phantasy Star, D&D 4E made for a very entertaining Breath of Fire, I ran several Ultima games using D&D and World of Darkness (Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade, mostly), and I ran The 7th Saga with D&D 5E. You don't actually need specialty systems for a lot of these games.

 

[Becksworth]

Was looking at the preview pages and...

A.I. Usage and Content Policy:
Generative AI was employed in the art, post-production and editing stages of this book.
We acknowledge the ethical complexities of this technology,
and remain committed to ethical AI use and championing artists’ rights.

Ah, is that why Adol looks so weird?

 

[Mogri]

Was looking at the preview pages and...

Ah, is that why Adol looks so weird?

Cake Policy:
Our cake was eaten in the making of this book.
We remain committed to having our cake.

 

[Felicia]

I was really hoping they'd come up with a clever TTRPG way to simulate bump combat.

 

[Becksworth]

The Video Game License TTRPG explosion continues.

At least this one looks to have a more positive reception so far.

 

[Paul le Fou]

You've got me hoping for that Xenogears one still. I guess Lancer can simulate it in the meantime...