What dead game would you resurrect?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

In fairness, you really never know how this is going to turn out. Since I can't get a full manuscript ready before a Kickstarter (I'm no Morrus), I really don't know what the print schedule will be like. I also don't know what else will hit the fulfillment centers. In my last two Kickstarters I rolled well and both weren't too much of a problem. That said, it's taking a whole extra month to get books to Europe.

We just set our date out a year and hope it'll be better than that =)

Fair, but if a company has multiple projects two years overdue (Hit Point Press, in this case), I'm switching to picking up their products when/if they hit retail.

Bad luck happens, for sure, but at a certain point, it starts to look like bad project management.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Who the heck are you backing? I have backed an OMG number of campaigns and I don't think I've ever gotten zero back and, outside of the pandemic, most of mine fulfill very close to the time expected. The new @SlyFlourish book is going to be here on Thursday, five months early.

Don't back randos who've never run a campaign before and always check to see how long it's taken someone to fulfill their previous campaigns before backing a new one, even if it's "a big publisher." (I decided not to back 9th Level's new game today, since the last one I backed was due out by now and is just now going into layout, which cannot be blamed on supply chain issues.)

I'll back newbies because I want to encourage people, but I'm very, very rarely backing for anything but a PDF, and I've got a good enough antenna I've rarely been disappointed (and even then it was more "Its taking forever" than "Its never going to arrive").

(The above does not include computer games. Never backing one of those again, not because any of the ones I've backed haven't arrived but because the time frame is longer than I'm willing to risk at my age).

 

[Blue Orange]

Nephilim: Occult Roleplaying.

But that only appeals to people who read the Illuminatus! trilogy as teenagers, have the full set of Taschen's Library of Esoterica as coffee table books, and have several pages of handwritten notes on the first book of Agrippa.

This game is no longer real. But I probably will be for another three decades or so.

Is Talislanta actually dead?

 

[SlyFlourish]

Nephilim: Occult Roleplaying.

But that only appeals to people who read the Illuminatus! trilogy as teenagers, have the full set of Taschen's Library of Esoterica as coffee table books, and have several pages of handwritten notes on the first book of Agrippa.

This game is no longer real. But I probably will be for another three decades or so.

Is Talislanta actually dead?

Yay! Illuminatus! (My dad wrote illuminatus!.)

 

[deganawida]

Yay! Illuminatus! (My dad wrote illuminatus!.)

The trilogy?

EDIT: Darnit, that answers that, as I just remembered your surname. Granted, I thought it was a rather common surname, but, for once, the odds were in my favor that I had I some level of interaction (just a few videos and awareness of what you do) with one famous person who was related to another famous person that I read.

 

[SlyFlourish]

The trilogy?

EDIT: Darnit, that answers that, as I just remembered your surname. Granted, I thought it was a rather common surname, but, for once, the odds were in my favor that I had I some level of interaction (just a few videos and awareness of what you do) with one famous person who was related to another famous person that I read.

Yep! Robert J. Shea's Homepage

 

[deganawida]

Yep! Robert J. Shea's Homepage

That’s awesome! I loved Illuminatus! for its ability to make people think about things in unconventional, and often nonlinear, fashion. I gave my copy to my FiL 20 or so years ago to read, and it blew his mind (possibly too much). I never got it back. I do need a new copy for my shelf, even if I am more like your father in outlook than his coauthor, and will use your site to purchase.

I guess what I am saying is thanks

 

[pemerton]

Prince Valiant.

(In my view it's Greg Stafford's masterpiece, superior to Pendragon. It deserves to be more widely played.)

 

[dbm]

My pick is perhaps cheating but I would love to see Lone Wolf with a flourishing RPG. I loved the series as a teen and the world of Magnamund has a lot going for it. The Mongoose version using d20 had lots of interesting material but the rules were a poor fit, while the Cubical 7 version was too simple to sustain a full campaign IMO. If wishes are horses then obviously it should be a licensed property using Savage Worlds.

Is Talislanta actually dead?

Not dead, but functionally complete. The Talislanta website has basically all the material for first through fifth editions of the rules. There was a recent crowdfunding campaign for an ultimate designers edition but I didn’t personally feel that the campaign added anything of sufficient value to cause me to back it - it was mostly a remix with new art.

 

[giant.robot]

Yay! Illuminatus! (My dad wrote illuminatus!.)

Awesome. That book (I had the big trilogy book) blew my mind as a teenager.

I was obsessed with INWO, read an article in InQuest about it which mentioned Illuminatus! and then pick that up and read it. In pretty short order I went from sort of weird to very weird.