Highlander CCG and RPG

[James McMurray]

There's been a change in ownership of the Highlander CCG. The printer has bought the game's license. Anyone who knows anything about the original owner knows this can only be a good thing for the game.

Another good thing this brings in the Highlander RPG. Margaret Weis is making the game, so it'll have decades of experience backing up the rule set.

Their new website is www.highlanderccg.com. They're offering a special deal right now that ends on Monday. You get everything they print for the next three years, which would be 12 boxes of cards and who knows how many RPG supplements. They're doing it to get a shot in the arm to jazz up advertising to make sure the game appeals to more than just the older players.

If you decide to buy it please let me know.

 

[Aeson]

How do you make a RPG work? If you are meant to reach the goal of being The One. At some point you will have to fight and kill the other party members.

I would like to see a game for it. I love the movies and series. It would be awesome to play an immortal. I'm not sure how it would work.

 

[James McMurray]

Amanda, Methos, Duncan, and Richie got along well enough. Or you could do a Jacob Kell's Posse / Four Horseman type setup, with a group of immortals who come together to hunt other immortals and take turns getting the quickenings.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were also rules for playing a Watcher, so one of the players could be a Watcher that crossed over into interfering.

And a final showdown for a campaign ender, with one player winning The Prize, might not be a bad way to go out.


I'm not sure how well it could hold up to larger groups, but I could see it working well for 3 players, and perhaps 4. Presumably there will be a decent sized chapter of GM advice adressing this. But yeah, I could definitely see it having problems with larger groups.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

How do you make a RPG work? If you are meant to reach the goal of being The One. At some point you will have to fight and kill the other party members.

I would like to see a game for it. I love the movies and series. It would be awesome to play an immortal. I'm not sure how it would work.

It'd probably work how Buffy/Angel worked, with bonuses for not being an Immortal type, so you wouldn't get completely overshadowed.

 

[James McMurray]

Does anyone know anything about Serenity? It's another RPG she did, and I've heard good stuff about it.

 

[vrykyl]

Highlander RPG

Sorry to cross-post this from another forum, but since this got leaked ahead of schedule I wanted to chime in with something semi-official.

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This deal is brand-new, literally only made days ago, so the reason you haven't heard anything is because we weren't planning on announcing it just yet. So in lieu of an official announcement, here's a few nuggets of information for now.

We are planning on a Highlander Role Playing Game for release in about a year, with a few follow-up products and possible secondary support from other game publishers who we'll be working with for consistency and quality control.

The core game book will set up the world, offer the rules, and present things as seen through the eyes of the original Highlander film starring Christopher Lambert. It will be using the Cortex System, first seen for the Serenity Role Playing Game. While it may not be for everyone, it supports story and character emphasis and fast-moving action and has won multiple industry awards. The team we're planning to put together for the game will include Highlander "experts" who are very familiar with the films and TV series, experienced industry game designers, and at least one expert in practical sword combat.

The planned follow-up products include a sourcebook covering the entirety of the TV series and the film Highlander: Endgame. Another will cover the new trilogy of films that continue the story of Duncan MacLeod. (Yes, for those of you out there reading this, we're not currently planning to deal with any of the film sequels between the original and Highlander: Endgame.)

We're probably going to be quiet on this for a while, because we've just cut the deal as of the middle of last week and absolutely zero work has been done other than discuss our ideas and to begin talking to the potential writers.

However, we are going to be building up a playtest/review team in the next few months. If you're willing to offer constructive criticism and sign a Non-Disclosure agreement, we'd love to hear from you. Comments that include telling us to switch to True20/GURPS/Unisystem/d20 will be ignored. Those are great game systems, but we're building up the value and player base of our own, and experience has shown it's one of the best systems to bring in players from a larger fanbase outside of the usual gamer crowd. Please send your Highlander familiarity and RPG experience to my e-mail: jamie@margaretweis.com -- and thanks!

Jamie Chambers
Vice President
Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd.

 

[KenSeg]

I would like to see a decent RPG based on the Highlander theme. I played for a while in an excellent PBM message game based on Highlander run at the Dreamlyrics website by a superb DM. It was basically cooperative storytelling with a RPG mechanics for fights and such. He ran each player as a separate thread storyline. Truly one of the best efforts in that line I have ever seen.

-KenSeg

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Any idea how much it is going to cost to buy into this deal?

 

[James McMurray]

The offer was $500, but ended yesterday. I don't know how much boosters, boxes, and RPG books will cost. Presumably industry standard.