Free League’s Tales From The Loop is one of the year's biggest breakout games, scooping up a host of nominations and awards, including no less than FIVE Gold ENnies – including the coveted Product of the Year. Today sees the release of their first supplement, a campaign guide called Our Friends The Machines & Other Mysteries. Available now as a PDF on DriveThruRPG, or in print or PDF through the Free League's own webstore, it should be hitting retail stores in early February.
Toys suddenly developing intelligence. A mystical mummy roaming the beaches. Weird events in the local video store. A mixtape full of mysteries. Four wondrous machines. A guide to creating your own setting for the game. All of this and more is included in this volume, the first official module for the multiple award-winning Tales from the Loop RPG. This book includes:
The 104-page, full color, hardback in split into seven chapters, including the introduction. You have scenarios can be set in either the Boulder City (USA) or Malaren Islands (Sweden) settings with easy references for name changes.
Apart from the three longer scenarios (Our Friends the Machines, Horror Movie Mayhem and The Mummy in the Mist) the Mixtape of Mysteries chapter presents eight shorter scenarios, all names after classic 80’s music tracks – Sweet Dreams, Every Breath You Take, Girls Just Want To Have Fun, Where Is My Mind, Nightrain, Forever Young, Thriller and Heaven Is A Place On Earth.
The ‘80s is the decade when music mostly is consumed via cassettes, and the homemade mixtape reigns supreme. In the mixtape of mysteries in this chapter, you will encounter dreaming robots, a satanic conspiracy, two immortal youths, horror movies turning into reality and a very strange cult hiding underground. Just rewind and press play.
The Machine Blueprints chapter looks at four of the iconic machines used by government agencies, corporations, and organizations around the world. Each machine is detailed including its history, blueprints, and a selection of suggested mysteries that it could be used in.
Lastly, the book offers us a way to use your own hometown in your Tales From The Loop games in Hometown Hack. Tales from the Loop is about solving mysteries in small towns or communities. The two official settings for the game, included in the core rulebook, are the Mälaren Islands in Sweden and Boulder City in Nevada, USA. The reason why we chose these two are simple: Simon Stålenhag’s art depicts these two settings. He grew up on the Mälaren Islands outside of Stockholm and his paintings from there reflect his childhood and his memories. But Tales from the Loop is your game now, so why not make it about your hometown and your memories? This is what this chapter is all about. Apart from having some great suggestions, I was also amused with this chapter as it covers the area where I was born – the Norfolk Broads in the east of England. I certainly wasn’t expecting to see Great Yarmouth, Gorleston, and the Broads starring up at me as a setting in an RPG book this morning!
Like the core rulebook, Our Friends The Machines & Other Mysteries, is full of the fantastic artwork of the settings creator Simon Stalenhag. It’s a book full of plenty of adventures that should keep players busy for quite some time.
Our Friends The Machines & Other Mysteries is available now on DriveThruRPG as a PDF , or in print or PDF through the Free Leagues webstore, it should be hitting retail stores in early February.
Toys suddenly developing intelligence. A mystical mummy roaming the beaches. Weird events in the local video store. A mixtape full of mysteries. Four wondrous machines. A guide to creating your own setting for the game. All of this and more is included in this volume, the first official module for the multiple award-winning Tales from the Loop RPG. This book includes:
- Our Friends the Machines. A mystery about a product launch of a new line of action toys that suddenly takes a turn to the weird.
- Horror Movie Mayhem. The ’80s was the decade of moral panic, when everything new was dangerous and corrupting. In this mystery the Kids will investigate what is really happening in and around the local video store.
- The Mummy in the Mist. There are whispering rumors that it is back again. The mummy down by the lake. Roaming the beaches by night, looking for something, hungering after something. It will be up to the Kids to solve this mystery.
- A mixtape filled with mysteries. Eight short mysteries based on classic pop songs from the era.
- Blueprints, background and adventure hooks for four advanced and iconic machines from the world of the Loop.
- Hometown Hack. A guide to creating your very own setting for the game, complete with the Norfolk Broads, a UK-based Loop.
The 104-page, full color, hardback in split into seven chapters, including the introduction. You have scenarios can be set in either the Boulder City (USA) or Malaren Islands (Sweden) settings with easy references for name changes.
Apart from the three longer scenarios (Our Friends the Machines, Horror Movie Mayhem and The Mummy in the Mist) the Mixtape of Mysteries chapter presents eight shorter scenarios, all names after classic 80’s music tracks – Sweet Dreams, Every Breath You Take, Girls Just Want To Have Fun, Where Is My Mind, Nightrain, Forever Young, Thriller and Heaven Is A Place On Earth.
The ‘80s is the decade when music mostly is consumed via cassettes, and the homemade mixtape reigns supreme. In the mixtape of mysteries in this chapter, you will encounter dreaming robots, a satanic conspiracy, two immortal youths, horror movies turning into reality and a very strange cult hiding underground. Just rewind and press play.
The Machine Blueprints chapter looks at four of the iconic machines used by government agencies, corporations, and organizations around the world. Each machine is detailed including its history, blueprints, and a selection of suggested mysteries that it could be used in.
Lastly, the book offers us a way to use your own hometown in your Tales From The Loop games in Hometown Hack. Tales from the Loop is about solving mysteries in small towns or communities. The two official settings for the game, included in the core rulebook, are the Mälaren Islands in Sweden and Boulder City in Nevada, USA. The reason why we chose these two are simple: Simon Stålenhag’s art depicts these two settings. He grew up on the Mälaren Islands outside of Stockholm and his paintings from there reflect his childhood and his memories. But Tales from the Loop is your game now, so why not make it about your hometown and your memories? This is what this chapter is all about. Apart from having some great suggestions, I was also amused with this chapter as it covers the area where I was born – the Norfolk Broads in the east of England. I certainly wasn’t expecting to see Great Yarmouth, Gorleston, and the Broads starring up at me as a setting in an RPG book this morning!
Like the core rulebook, Our Friends The Machines & Other Mysteries, is full of the fantastic artwork of the settings creator Simon Stalenhag. It’s a book full of plenty of adventures that should keep players busy for quite some time.
Our Friends The Machines & Other Mysteries is available now on DriveThruRPG as a PDF , or in print or PDF through the Free Leagues webstore, it should be hitting retail stores in early February.
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