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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[imagineGod]

Don't know her well. Looked up her wikipedia page

Tanya DePass - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Which says:

and

Think she was also a guest on DRAGONTALK recently

Not anti-D&D
You're projecting

Probably, English is not your basic language. That s okay. But when someone actually posts "absolutely NOT D&D, " that is not just to state no, but to clarify a strong no with the word "absolutely, " and especially "NOT'," which was typed in all Capitals for further emphasis.

 

[Morrus]

Probably, English is not your basic language. That s okay. But when someone actually posts "absolutely NOT D&D, " that is not just to state no, but to clarify a strong no with the word "absolutely, " and especially "NOT'," which was typed in all Capitals for further emphasis.

Yes, it means it’s emphatically not D&D. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[Bagpuss]

Yes, it means it’s emphatically not D&D. Nothing more, nothing less.

Yeah but people are going to read stuff into being emphatic about it. Deserved or not.

 

[Morrus]

Yeah but people are going to read stuff into being emphatic about it. Deserved or not.

I guess that’s up to them. The KS is doing incredibly well and looks like it will come in at about a third of million dollars, so they’re doing something right.

 

[imagineGod]

I guess that’s up to them. The KS is doing incredibly well and looks like it will come in at about a third of million dollars, so they’re doing something right.

That is because the creator is a known personality and it is Afro-Fantasy.

My friend that also Kickstarted Afro-fantasy but did not have a big Twitter following, did not do so well in terns of hundred of thousands of Dollars but was still successful.

This sort of shows the right crowd following is more important than your game system.

Strangely, right now Green Ronin is struggling to break 50,000 for Blue Rose romantic fantasy 5e. Thought Green Ronin has more clout with Players.

 

[mcmillan]

It could be an emphasis due to a lot of people asking if it's 5e rather than any negativity towards 5e itself.

Hard to tell without context.

Anyway I wish them best, but there's no way I'd back without knowing the system.

The screenshot cut out the context of this being specifically a response to someone asking if it would be 5e because they wouldn't be interested if so

 

[Marc_C]

Strangely, right now Green Ronin is struggling to break 50,000 for Blue Rose romantic fantasy 5e. Thought Green Ronin has more clout with Players.

That is because Blue Rose is already well served by the in house AGE system. That is what the fans play. They want more Blue Rose AGE books not 5e versions of books they already own.

 

[Disgruntled Hobbit]

The screenshot cut out the context of this being specifically a response to someone asking if it would be 5e because they wouldn't be interested if so
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That changes the tone completely
No vehemence. Just reassuring a backer

 

[Grendel_Khan]

The screenshot cut out the context of this being specifically a response to someone asking if it would be 5e because they wouldn't be interested if so

For what it's worth, they transferred that answer over to the FAQ, in an update:

Not trying to read anything into that update, just mentioning it.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Thought Green Ronin has more clout with Players.

Maybe they need some more streams