Irons in the Fire
Alrighty…a few of you have requested a run-down on what projects I’ve got underway. So, without further ado…
Apollyon Noir: Being developed with Jason Roberts, for Thyrsus. My RPG rules are actually a secondary part of the larger project. I would go into more detail, but Roberts has rightly suggested that we sit on this while we lay out the ground work. We’re planning something new here, and we don’t want to get scooped before we’re ready to launch. Suffice to say that we’re presenting a product that will concentrate on delivery of an entire Intellectual Property, rather than just a game.
Untitled Pulp Project: This is one of the pdf projects that I’m developing for Adamant (hence the development of a new corporate site, etc.). I’m working on this one with Storn Cook, spinning out of a discussion that we had on RPGnet. We’ve just started on this one, so more detail will be forthcoming. The only thing that we do know right now is that it will be an “UberPulpWorld” setting, rather than generic, and will also be presented in serialized format (the rules will be split into 4 seperate short pdfs, rather than 1 large one).
Fearless Monster Hunters: Currently the working title for my classic monster-hunting game inspired by the classic Hammer Horror Movies (three links there, check ’em all out). No angst. No “monster within.” See monster? Hunt monster. DESTROY monster. Save generic 19th-century random-european village, complete with pultritudinous young thing.
Daikaiju Eiga (Giant Monster Movie): Card-based RPG/battle game of theKaiju genre. The players create their own monsters and supporting cast, and play out battles (along with subplots).
Terminal Identity: My take on a literary-cyberpunk roleplaying game. An attempt to bring the actual cyberpunk genre to gaming, instead of the near-future-black-ops-merc-team weapons-fetish wankfests that have given gamers a flawed definition of the field. This one is probably one of the most back-burnered of all of the projects, simply because I’ve learned of a good handful of indie designers are working on similar topics.
FVLMINATA D20: The D20 translation of Thyrsus Games’ alt-history Romans-with-guns RPG. Currently trying to figure out a way to make it more than just a simple plug-in: D&D in Rome.
A few other things in the works, too….including more work on a novel that I suppose I could best describe as Luther Arkwright meets Perdido Street Station meets Doctor Who meets the Virconium stories.
…and so it goes.