Project Nemesis is a fan driven website for games that use the One-Roll Engine (like Nemesis, Wild Talents, Reign and Monsters) or Chaosium's Basic Roleplay System (BRP) (like Call of Cthulhu) and the Delta Green setting.
Whether it was the pythian oracle, the witch of Endor,
bone-pointing Aboriginal killers or voodoo-active pirates, there have
always been people around who could call upon the supernatural and have
it answer. There are varieties (spirit-binders, fetish-makers, animist
shamans) but most forms of magic have long pedigrees.
As manager of Arc Dream Publishing I
have the privilege of working with a lot of really good games. To be
honest, that's pretty much the whole reason Arc Dream exists. My
partner Dennis Detwiller and I love roleplaying games; we particularly
love a very specific style of roleplaying games; and we want more of
those games to exist.
It can be hard to define exactly what that style is, but it usually
has a lot to do with a detailed and heavily-researched approach to
history, secrets that people die or kill to protect, a sense that power
always comes with consequences, and action that is fast, bloody and
suspenseful. It doesn't hurt if Greg Stolze and Kenneth Hite are the
authors, or if I can get Todd Shearer to provide illustrations.
All the supplementary stuff released for REIGN last year is available in one integrated document with a table of contents and everything. It's free! You can get it here:
www.gregstolze.com/reign/downloads/2YoORInterior.pdf
Arc Dream Publishing has a big preview up for The Kerberos Club, the
massive sourcebook for superhero roleplaying in Victorian London. The
Kerberos Club is written by Benjamin Baugh (Ennie-nominated author of
Monsters and Other Childish Things and The Dreadful Secrets of
Candlewick Manor) with illustrations by Todd Shearer and Lanny Liu.
The Kerberos Club was originally conceived as a 128-page book and
has had a pre-order price of $24.99 up until now. But in fact it will
top out at around 320 pages, so the cover price goes up to $39.99 on
August 1. You can still order it at $24.99 only until then.
1) It's a fantasy system based on the One Roll Engine. If prior
experience with the ORE has not been your sort of fun, then that
guideline also applies.
2) It has detailed rules for consistent combat mechanics that dial from
a quite abstracted and functional level all the way to including more
detailed rules for such things as Feinting, submission holds, killing
someone in such a way that you give a Morale Attack to anyone
watching... all sorts of things. These elements are presented
consistently within the ORE, and thus can be used within games in any setting - they are not specifically fantasy.
ArcDream will be upping the number of games they are running at GenCon this year. For instance, Allan Goodall is running 6 instead of 4 games. ArcDream will be in the main book (hopefully) and they'll have a board at the booth telling where and when their events are running.
ArcDream is going to be right near White Wolf in the dealer's room.
Here's a partial list of what ArcDream will be running at GenCon 2009:
One Roll Monsters
Combat Cheat Sheet (Borders)
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