RPG News: West End Games Sold | Echoes #16
I'll skip to (for me) the really cool part:
“Plans include...the continued development of Torg 2.0"
Oh yeah. Gimme some sugar, baby.
Historically West End Games' "games" represents for me some of the watershed moments in my gaming resume':
- Stars Wars RPG (1st edition, thank you very much)
- Ghostbusters (one of the most publicly-underrated mechanics in gaming and I believe one of the influences that lead to the FATE system we all know and love)
- Torg (How to REALLY do cross-genre role-playing and make everyone happy. Not since the D&D "blue box" had a box game ever blown my mind the way TORG 1.0 did.)
Without the above list, early Champions, and R. Talsorian's original Cyberpunk (the "2013" version), I wouldn't be the person I am today.
Ahhh, memories. I ran a 2 year TORG campaign off-and-on where the players (all in their early 20's by this time) actually played themselves as PCs and all had their "history" together (talk about a great reason why the party was together and all trusted each other!) As DM, the backstory was that "I" had died during the attacks and that's why I wasn't in the campaign.
(At least until they met a doppelganger "me" as a recurring NPC from the "Nippon Tech" realm and turned out to be not quite the same person as they remembered from their "Core Earth"!)
Good times.
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Addendum from Mike:
I talk about "industry stuff"? Well, I will today with this addendum, just to make this post FATE-relevant (although the prospect of Torg's return is worth posting about, FATE or no).
Evil Hat's struck a deal with Alliance to distribute the Dresden Files RPG. "So what?" you ask. I'll tell you what: Alliance is the leading (I believe) comic and game distributor in the country. This means you should be able to walk into your FLGS and just find the thing on the shelf along with everything else they get from Alliance (which is, like, everything). And if it's not on the shelf, they can easily get it through their usual channels. No special orders through IPR necessary.
That's kinda huge news for Evil Hat (and for us FATE fans). So is this:
In addition to the Dresden Files RPG, Alliance will also be offering Evil Hat’s backlist of products – including the award-winning Spirit of the Century RPGNow that's pretty awesome -- maybe even more awesome. How awesome? Go look at Evil Hat's catalogue. That awesome.
So are these covers to DFRPG:
And I say all of this never having read a word of Jim Butcher.
1 comment:
I talk about "industry stuff"?
Well, more so than I certainly. Plus I kinda told myself I was gonna keep my contributions here fairly focused on SoG. But I've been thinking a lot about Torg lately (with respect to a consistent game mechanic and the differences dramatically between the realms of SotG and SoG), and this link coming across my inbox today was a pleasant synchronicity.
And you're right that the Evil Hat alliance with Alliance (I couldn't resist) represents just how serious everyone is about DFRPG being huge.
I didn't mention it cuz I figured it would already be rippling through the blogosphere anyway.
And I say all of this never having read a word of Jim Butcher.
(Shaking head) Bitch, please. ;)
I mean seriously, you can almost SMELL the Aspects being Tagged and Compelled in Butcher's narratives!
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