Into the Mother Lands: A Sci-fi RPG by PoC Designers

When Eugenio Vargas spoke to us on our podcast back in November about this Afrofuturist RPG, it was still months away. Now the game has hit Kickstarter, and has made over $100K in the first couple of days!

Into the Mother Lands - An Original Afrofuturist TTRPG

Setting book for Into the Mother Lands RPG!!!

www.kickstarter.com

Imagine if African explorers had set sail for the New World long before Europeans did... but got transported to a new planet instead! This planet is developed by a civilisation of African descent.

Choose from five cultures and several professions such as the Bio Priest or the Spine Ripper.

The team behind Into the Mother Lands is a group RPG designers, all people of colour, led by Tanya DePass, the founder of the non-profit group I Need Diverse Games.

You can pick up the PDF for $25 or the hardcover for $50, plus an array of dice, screens, maps, sheets and more.

Podcast #127 Into the Mother Lands with Eugenio Vargas

This week, Morrus and Peter are joined by Eugenio Vargas to talk about Into the Motherlands. In the news, Gale Force 9 sues Wizards of the Coast, Dungeons & Dragons sourcebook Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything released, Comic Relief Plays D&D Part 2, and more plus a brand new sketch about the...

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[aramis erak]

And there's no reason they couldn't have stuck with the rules they started with. If there's anything this OGL crisis has taught us it's that mechanics aren't protected by Copyright, and I'm damn sure the mechanics of Cortex aren't Patented. Fandom has no legal standing to sue anyone for using it, and would receive a business destroying amount of negative press if they tried. The only thing they had which made a license agreement worth anything was sold to #WotC, which ultimately led to the Masters of the Universe RPG being cancelled.

There's a reason they could sue - if it was agreed as part of the licensing application they agreed not to use it if they didn't get the license.

 

[Michael Linke]

So Andrews McMeel decided to breach their contract with a Black writer(s), at the start of Black History Month, while continuing to sell an RPG from a White writer (on their front page no less) called Blackbirds. Seems every time I think things can't get more absurd I end up holding another beer.

They decided to stop publishing new RPG products. That's not the same as deciding not to sell works that have already been published.

 

[RivetGeekWil]

Fandom has no legal standing to sue anyone for using it, and would receive a business destroying amount of negative press if they tried.

No they can't sue anybody over it because they don't own Cortex.

The only thing they had which made a license agreement worth anything was sold to #WotC, which ultimately led to the Masters of the Universe RPG being cancelled.

Legends of Grayskull production was stopped because the license didn't transfer to Direwolf Digital when Fandom sold Cortex. There's been no announcement the game has been completely cancelled (although it's not likely going to move forward).