So, ages ago now, it seems, I posted The Ultimate Sandbox, and since then I’ve been pottering around posting stuff over on the Malperdys site and it really has been a, “make me one with everything,” kind of dumping ground.
A lot of the stuff I’ve been dropping in there revolves around the intermittent, in-person Magnus Archives RPG involving the Invisible College. There is so much else in there, though and I really want to do the effort justice, especially considering it’s a collaborative effort. I don’t think I’m ever going to be persuaded that the Year Zero Engine is a particularly attractive system for RPGs, but Cypher and StoryPath? Yup! Trying to to crystalise around one particular set of concepts or rules seems to be doing the infinitude of possibility an injustice, though.
I’m especially stoked at the release of the Curseborne Core rulebook to Kickstarter backers this week, but I am narrowing my eyes somewhat when, in the same week, there’s a Curseborne Player’s Guide Kickstarter. We haven’t even got the physical copies of the core book, and they’re looking for money for the next thing? It’s not that I don’t trust Onyx Path to deliver, or even the quality of their work. I guess this is just how roleplaying games get funded these days? Let’s face it, Monte Cook Games did pretty much the same thing, with the Cypher Kickstarter closing and then a new one for Numenera immediately announced.
Anyhoo, what this comes down to is that I’m really keen to get something more concrete around this shared world put together. Whether it’s in Cypher, or StoryPath, just… something. That said, my brain is so fried from work right now, even if it’s doing something I love over there (evangelising Ruby on Rails to a new generation of devs), that I could not RPG on the weekend, due to being unable to put together comprehensible sentences. People-ing be hard.