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Come spit on my Kickstarter for Myriad Song, a retro SF rpg
Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 7:31 pm
by RiotGearEpsilon
So I'm the editor for
this game, which I believe the Gaming Den as a whole will have a wonderful time tearing in to pieces in Gaming Den fashion. This is a shameless attempt to advertise this product to you in the hopes that you will give me money.
Why the hell do I think my lousy book is worth your hard-earned dollar? Here's why:
- A setting based on older interpretations of the future, where energy is plentiful and processing power is expensive.
- A simple core die mechanic that can be expanded smoothly in complexity to allow any level of mechanical engagement from Magic Tea Party to Axis & Allies.
- A large selection of interesting alien species to play, all differentiated not by vaguely-racist inherent psychological traits but by sharply different means of perceiving and relating to the world. Be a bug man with amazing peripheral vision and ultraviolet perception but with very limited ability to focus on specific objects! Be a silicon-rare-earth-carbon-based organism with no real color vision but a superb sense of smell capable of differentiating distinct uranic elements! Be an eletroreceptive amphibian capable of receiving and transmitting FM radio signals!
- A crisp, tight combat ruleset that scales up from hapless chump to action movie superhero, allowing higher-skill characters to confront enormous quantities of normal people without ever quite
- A laterally diverse selection of equipment, including primitive gear, scrounged gear, firearms, energy weapons, and xenharmonic resonance projectors, each of which can be specialized in separately, allowing for a diverse party that doesn't start to look the same as they get the 'best gear'.
- An expansive universe rife with conflicting factions, all eagerly squabbling over the ruins of the now absent progenitor race which created the Myriad Syndicate that bound their now-freed slave races together.
- Edited by people as finicky and angry as the Gaming Den about making rules and settings that actually make a goddamned lick of sense.
Please check out our Kickstarter, and let me know what you think, preferably angrily.
Re: Come spit on my Kickstarter for Myriad Song, a retro SF rpg
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 3:23 pm
by Whatever
RiotGearEpsilon wrote:Edited by people as finicky and angry as the Gaming Den
Probably would have been a good idea to have those editors proofread your kickstarter page.
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 10:15 pm
by Aryxbez
It sounds interesting, though given some of the stretch goals that won't be reached, somewhat a bit of a downer to missed potential in the product (like rules for making your own races being a big one for me). Also, it's almost been a month since this kickstarter has begun, you probably should've put this thread up quite awhile back, so to give more time for monetary support.
Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 1:21 am
by Shrapnel
I had a quarter that I'd've given, but I lost it when a spider flying a Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor swooped in over head and shot the poor fucker to pieces.
:salutes: Never forget George Washington and his Johnson Sandwich.
Re: Come spit on my Kickstarter for Myriad Song, a retro SF rpg
Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 2:33 am
by Neurosis
Whatever wrote:RiotGearEpsilon wrote:Edited by people as finicky and angry as the Gaming Den
Probably would have been a good idea to have those editors proofread your kickstarter page.
I call bullshit. No one is as finicky or as angry as this wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 2:30 pm
by RiotGearEpsilon
I dunno about that, Schwarzkopf. We're hella angry people.
Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 3:33 am
by RiotGearEpsilon
Join Jason Holmgren, the Fearless Imperator of Sanguine Games, creator of “Joe Genero”, “Ironclaw”, and “Myriad Song”, for an IRC (text-based chat) on
Thursday, May 23rd, hosted by Dan Davenport of
The Hard-Boiled GMShoe. The show starts at
7pm Central Standard Time (GMT-6).
You can join the chat at this link, or (if you’re technically minded) you can use an IRC client to connect to [url=irc://Galaxy.Magicstar.Net:6667/rpgnet]Galaxy.Magicstar.Net, port 6667, channel #rpgnet[/url]. Ask him questions about his history, his games, his ability to generate adenosine triphosphate, and more!
The chat is TOMORROW at SEVEN PM CENTRAL STANDARD TIME. That's 8 PM Eastern time, 6 PM Mountain time, and 5 PM Western time. Be there, or be
somewhere else!
Posted: Fri May 24, 2013 12:53 am
by Neurosis
OK!
Posted: Fri May 24, 2013 6:27 am
by RiotGearEpsilon
Thanks for comin' out, Schawrz.
Posted: Sun May 26, 2013 12:58 am
by RiotGearEpsilon
Big thanks to all of you who supported Myriad Song. We made it to $7,325!