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Showing posts with label Victory Condition Gaming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Victory Condition Gaming. Show all posts

Thursday, February 2, 2023

Vast Grimm | RPG Actual Play with co-designer, Brian Colin

 


Vast Grimm | RPG Actual Play with co-designer, Brian Colin

You can watch out Vast Grimm session HERE.

Vast Grimm is a stand-alone, art-filled, punk-fueled OSR role-playing game about the few humans remaining in a universe being consumed by growing parasitic würms. A sci-fi horror RPG set in a dying universe // New splatterpunk adventures and expanded rules // Inspired and infected by Mörk Borg X_X Are you a MAnchiNe ravaged by war, pieced together with remnants of bots and the little flesh left of your body? Maybe you're a twisted biochemist shoving needles into your arms in hopes that this next fix will be the one that saves you and what’s left of humanity? Or perhaps you are a soul survivor, like a cockroach, doing whatever is necessary to stay alive even if it means the rest of your Legion must perish. This is a game about survival, no matter how gruesome things get, humanity must survive. Back the Vast Grimm: Into Oblivion Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/infiniteblack/vast-grimm-into-oblivion

Wednesday, July 6, 2022

THE ONE RING™ RPG Actual Play "Involuntary Postmen"

 

Our fourth episode of the five adventures in The One Ring Starter Set is "Involuntary Postmen". Our hobbits have been apprehended and tasked to deliver a letter in order to clear their names. Will they get to their destination and deliver the letter to its recipient? Who or what will they encounter along the way?

Click HERE to find out!

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

THE ONE RING™ RPG Actual Play "Most Excellent Fireworks"

 

THE ONE RING™ Starter Set Adventure "Most Excellent Fireworks"

Watch our third adventure HERE. A strange invitation from Bilbo Baggins, mentioning that he’s in need of help. Most odd! But then again, a great many things about that particular Hobbit have been odd ever since that business with the Dragon. Nothing wrong with taking a stroll and helping old Bilbo out I suppose. After all, it's not like there's any real dangers to worry about here in the Shire... You can purchase THE ONE RING™ Starter set on DriveThruRPG at https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/370370/The-One-RingTM-Starter-Set&affiliate_id=786032 THE ONE RING Corebook on DriveThruRPG at https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/370267/The-One-RingTM-Core-Rules&affiliate_id=786032 Or shop Free League's webstore at https://freeleaguepublishing.com/en/store/?collection_id=386774106370

Monday, May 30, 2022

Household RPG Designers Interview, 2LM Press/CMON



Household is a Roleplaying Game about Littlings, little folks living grand-tiny adventures in a big abandoned House. Set in a regency-like era, 100 years after the disappearance of the Master, Household features an immersive lore that takes players into a unique setting.

Winner of the Roleplaying Game of the Year in 2019 in Italy, Household is the latest game by the ENNIE Awards nominated authors of Broken Compass, Riccardo Sirignano and Simone Formicola, and is beautifully illustrated by Daniela Giubellini. Join us for a live Q&A with Household's designers Riccardo Sirignano and Simone Formicola from 2LM Press, the RPG publishing division of CMON. You can view our interview HERE. Household is on Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2lm/household 2LM Press website: https://twolittlemice.net

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

CY_BORG RPG Actual Play "Reaper Repo"

 


CY_BORG RPG Actual Play "Reaper Repo" - Victory Condition Gaming

CY_BORG is a cyberpunk spinoff game based on and compatible with multi-award-winning apocalyptic heavy metal RPG MÖRK BORG. This is to noise, industrial and underground hiphop what MÖRK BORG is to doom and black metal. Rules-light, rage-heavy. A fever-dream of tech, punk and fury. Of fighting a failed future. A deck-hacking, brick-throwing upheaval of a game. A game about climate collapse, out-of-control consumerism, the commodification of personal data, late-stage capitalism, transhumanism and senseless violence. 160 pages of cybernetic upheaval. CY_BORG RPG is a messed-up mirror image of MÖRK BORG RPG. Similar in tone and approach to game and book design but enhanced and augmented. Includes an introductory scenario and ≈60 random tables for your every cyberpunk need.

Watch our Cy_Borg actual play HERE.

Death In Space RPG Interview with Christian Plogfors & Carl Niblaeus




DEATH IN SPACE is a tabletop roleplaying game that presents a vision of space where technology is broken and dirty, and society is harsh and desperate. The player characters make up a crew with their own spacecraft or station, and take on the jobs they can find, in order to earn some well-needed bucks and get ahead in the power struggles of the stellar system.

Join us as we chat with Death In Space co-designers Christian Plogfors & Carl Niblaeus. We'll discuss the origin of the game, the design process and possible future plans. Watch our interview HERE. Learn more about Death In Space at https://deathinspace.com https://www.facebook.com/Deathinspace/ https://twitter.com/Deathinspace1 https://www.instagram.com/deathinspacedotcom

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Crawling Death Below The Dying Forest RPG Actual Play GM'ed by Brian Colin, CreatureCuration



Crawling Death Below The Dying Forest, A Third-Party Mörk Borg RPG Actual Play GM'ed by Brian Colin from CreatureCuration.


Created under the third-party license for the Mörk Borg roleplaying game, this is an ever-shifting dungeon crawl. This book contains new monsters, new occult treasures, new scrolls, and more than 50 rooms!
What is Crawling Death: Below the Dying Forest? A 55 room, ever-shifting dungeon crawl Compatible with Mörk Borg Randomly generate the dungeon Include specific rooms using four distinct adventure hooks
Or include all 55 in an ongoing mega-crawl campaign You can find Crawling Death Below The Dying Forest on Gamefound here:

You can watch our Actual Play HERE.

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Top 5 Year Zero Engine Roleplaying Games



Doug and Jason give their Top 5 lists of roleplaying games using the Year Zero Engine by Free League Publishing.

Watch out top 5 list video HERE.


You can purchase the games we mention at Free League's webstore:
You can purchase PDFs of the games on DriveThruRPG:

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

THE ONE RING™ RPG Actual Play "A Conspiracy Most Cracked"


THE ONE RING™ Starter Set Adventure "A Conspiracy Most Cracked" A strange invitation from Bilbo Baggins, mentioning that he’s in need of help. Most odd! But then again, a great many things about that particular Hobbit have been odd ever since that business with the Dragon. Nothing wrong with taking a stroll and helping old Bilbo out I suppose. After all, it's not like there's any real dangers to worry about here in the Shire...

Click HERE for our RPG Actual Play

 

Sunday, January 2, 2022

Thursday, December 30, 2021

Salvage Union RPG Interview with Aled Lawlor and Panayiotis Lines, Leyline Press

Salvage Union (@salvageunion) is a post-apocalyptic mech tabletop roleplaying game powered by the Quest RPG and published by Leyline Press


You play as a rag-tag group of Mech Pilots who make ends meet by salvaging scrap within a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Your pilots, as well as their entire ecosystem and community, live on a huge ship-like mech known as a Union Crawler. You range out of this crawler on your scrap-built mechs to tackle the denizens of the wasteland in a constant hunt for salvage to upgrade and survive.

Click HERE for an interview with the creators of Salvage Union - Aled Lawlor and Panayiotis Lines from Leyline Press.
You can learn more about Salvage Union on the Kickstarter here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leyline-press/salvage-union/ You can download the Salvage Union Quickstart and try it for yourself from Leyline Press' website here: https://leyline.press/products/salvage-union-beta-quickstart-digital-edition-pdf

Monday, December 6, 2021

KOSMOSAURS RPG ACTUAL PLAY



Kosmosaurs is an RPG where you play as cosmic dino rangers protecting the galaxy from all sorts of evil beings and we got an early look at it! If you loved the Dinosaucers or Dino Riders cartoons in the 80s then this is going to be a very familiar setting!

This rules-lite D6 system is perfect for gamers looking to pick up a quick and easy RPG with an 80s cartoon feel.

Kosmosaurs is coming to Kickstarter soon! Written and created by Diogo Nogueira of Old Skull Publishing and will be published by Gallant Knight Games!

Check out our RPG actual play of Kosmosaurs HERE!

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Zombicide Chronicles RPG Actual Play "Cruise of the Dead"

 Zombicide Chronicles RPG Actual Play "Cruise of the Dead"


In Zombicide: Chronicles – The Roleplaying Game by CMON, players take on the role of survivors of the zombie apocalypse. They must learn to work together, trust one another, and form strategies to fight the zombies if they want to stay alive. Transmissible diseases, non-functioning toilets, people falling off the promenade into the sea... what isn't there to like about cruises? Now three days out to sea our passengers also have to deal with zombies! I think once our passengers get off this ship the cruise line is going to get some very strongly worded letters. See if our cast survives their "luxurious" accommodations aboard the Childlike Empress and possibly radio for help to finally end this trip gone to hell in a special VCG Halloween one-shot "Cruise of the Dead"! Click HERE to watch our RPG Actual Play. You can download the Zombicide Chronicles quickstart here:
https://cmon.com/product/zombicide/zombicide-chronicles-rpg

Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Mecha and Monsters:Revised Coming Soon to Kickstarter!

 Mecha and Monsters from Gallant Knight Games is getting a new edition!

Mechas and Monsters:Evolved is coming to Kickstarter soon! To get notified when it launches click here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gallantknightgames/mecha-and-monsters-evolved-a-tinyd6-rpg We talk with designer, Alan Bahr, about the upcoming campaign and why Tiny Frontiers:Mecha & Monsters needed a new edition.

Click HERE for the interview.


Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Inferno - Dante's Guide to Hell for 5e Interview with Max Castellani, Acheron Books




Inferno - Dante's Guide to Hell is the first original Dantesque Campaign Setting for the 5th Edition of the world's most popular roleplaying game coming from Acheron Books.

Max Castellani from Epic Party & Acheron Books discusses the campaign setting and what the Kickstarter campaign is looking to publish for books.

You can watch our interview HERE. You can check out the Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/acherongames/inferno-dantes-guide-to-hell-for-5e You can download the Quickstart here: https://www.acheron.it/inferno/

Lasting Tales Interview with Adam & Brady Sadler, Blacklist Games



Lasting Tales is a cooperative, minis-agonistic, tabletop fantasy game from Blacklist Games designed by Mark Latham and developed by Adam and Brady Sadler.

Joining me for this session are the Vice Presidents of Product Development for Blacklist Games, Adam and Brady Sadler to talk about Lasting Tales and Fantasy Miniatures Series 2.

You can watch our interview HERE. Lasting Tales and Fantasy miniatures series 2 will be launching on Kickstarter March 30, 2021 as 12PM EST.
You can get notified when Lasting Tales launches here- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blacklistgames/lasting-tales-a-fantasy-miniatures-game


Thursday, March 11, 2021

The Terminator RPG Interview with Andrew E.C. Gaska, author - Nightfall Games

'The Terminator RPG' is not just a role-playing game from Nightfall Games—it's a sourcebook for the first Terminator film and its expanded universe. Settings writer Andrew E.C. Gaska is known for his development work on the expanded universes of ALIEN, Predator, and Planet of the Apes. Like those projects, 'The Terminator RPG' extrapolates from hardcore existing canon to create a living and breathing world with a multitude of possible and probable timelines. Any Terminator fan will want this gorgeous book on their shelf, whether they intend to play or not.

Check out our interview with Andrew


HERE.

It is currently on Kickstarter from Nightfall Games here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nightfall/the-terminator-rpg You can download the Terminator RPG Quickstart here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/341238/The-Terminator-RPG-Quick-Start

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Farsight RPG Actual Play - Lightfish Games

 FARSIGHT is a pen & paper role-playing game designed to bring science fiction to your table, allowing you to explore pristine worlds, roam the cosmos, and confront with unknown species, alien civilizations and prodigious technologies. Well, provided you can survive the dangers lurking just beyond the edge of the known!

Its game system, evolved from the 5th edition of the most popular rpg of all time, is simple and easy to learn, but capable of giving you all the depth and details that science fiction demands. Farsight author and designer, Dario Pense, joins our party as we play through a session on Victory Condition Gaming GM'ed by Max Castellani.
Click HERE for our Farsight Actual Play.


Saturday, February 20, 2021

ALIEN RPG "Dead Sea" CINEMATIC SCENARIO FROM ALEX AGUILA IS HERE!

 A VCG EXLCUSIVE! We got to play Alex Aguila's "Dead Sea" Alien Cinematic Scenario for the show before it was released to the public! You can watch our actual play here:



Then grab your copy of Dead Sea scenario HERE and play it for yourself! It's absolutely FREE!

Sunday, December 27, 2020

Those Dark Places RPG Actual Play with Guest GM, designer Jonathan Hicks

 

Those Dark Places is a rules-light, story-focused roleplaying game about the darker side of space exploration and the people who travel the stars in claustrophobic, dangerous conditions from Osprey Games and designed by Jonathan Hicks.
Click HERE for our actual play with the designer, Jonathan Hicks. You can by the pdf on DrivethruRPG and support VCG at https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/337292/Those-Dark-Places-Industrial-Science-Fiction-Roleplaying&affiliate_id=786032 You can purchase a physical copy and pdf here: https://ospreypublishing.com/those-dark-places