Outland Entertainment will release the Shotguns & Sorcery roleplaying game, based on Matt Forbeck’s fantasy noir prose series, in late 2015 or early 2016. The game is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter.
Forbeck’s series is hard-boiled detective fiction set in the gritty fantasy world of Dragon City, a walled mountain metropolis under eternal siege from the legion of zombies controlled by the Ruler of the Dead. Humans live in a stratified society, above the goblins, but below the elves, dwarves and Dragon Emperor. The city is protected by a Great Circle, and it is illegal to rob the ruins outside it, but the rewards make the risks worthwhile to the right adventurer.
Shotguns & Sorcery is the first third-party standalone game to use Monte Cooke Games’ Cypher System rules (see "'The Cypher System Rulebook'"). The game adaptation will be written by Forbeck, with design help from Robert Schwalb (Dungeons & Dragons, A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay), and art by Jeremy Mohler. The 300-page, core book includes 20 pages of full color art, and contains everything needed to play in a single volume. Backer fulfillment is planned for December 2015, with trade release to follow. MSRP was not announced.
The Kickstarter campaign, which is seeking $25,000, has raised $6,442 from 114 backers ($56.51/backer average) as of this writing. The campaign includes retailer level for four copies of the core book.
Based on Matt Forbeck's Novels
Posted by ICv2 on November 18, 2014 @ 2:47 pm CT
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