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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Porcupine" data-source="post: 6752682" data-attributes="member: 6799632"><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5830/21791499553_2f93e332ca_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Malandros is <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1690011586/malandros-tales-from-the-streets-of-old-rio" target="_blank">on Kickstarter right now</a>. It's a tabletop role-playing game of swindlers and street fighters, of love, hate and community in the last days of imperial Brazil.It's a standalone game powered by DramaSystem, with the Robin Laws "very cool" seal of approval. The project is already funded. Here's the current stretch goal situation: UNLOCKED: £200: EPUB and MOBI versions + Supernatural Creatures More ebook formats and a PDF mini-supplement based on Brazilian myths and legends, in case you want to add a soupcon of the strange to your game. The creatures will be illustrated by Claytonian, OSR artist and creator of The Wizardarium of Calibraxis.UNLOCKED: £500: São Roque + Rio map Adds a bonus PDF setting pack including pre-generated player characters and a write-up of the (fictional) São Roque district, its denizens, and related story seeds. The rulebook gets a custom-made map of 1889 Rio by Josephe Vandel.UNLOCKED: £750: The Sydney Razor Gang Wars An alternate setting PDF for the game - Australia's biggest city in the 1920s & 30s, when the rivalry between two crime queens led to blood in the streets. NEXT STRETCH GOAL:£1000: Aluminium Wars, an alternate setting PDF by Mark GaleottiIn 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed, and everything was up for grabs. In the industrial city of Krasnoyarsk, while the big beasts of the new gangster-businessman world fight it out for control of the local aluminium industry, corrupt cops, ambitious politicians, hustlers, thugs, and even a few idealists struggle to thrive and survive in a new Russia without rules, rhyme or reason.Mark Galeotti is the author of the Mythic Russia RPG, Eurosoource for Cyberpunk 2020 and contributor to numerous other RPG books, particularly about the world of Glorantha. He is an expert on Russian security affairs and organised crime, and teaches at New York University, where he is Clinical Professor of Global Affairs at the Center for Global Affairs. He blogs at In Moscow's Shadows.£1200: Victorian London setting by Paula DempseyTake your game to the old East End of London with this mini-supplement about ne'er-do-wells and honest folk, whether Cockney born and bred or from further afield. More details to come!Paula Dempsey won the Gold ENnie Award for Best Writing for The Book of the Smoke, the companion volume to Bookhounds of London. She also contributed to Cthulhu Britannica: London and the DramaSystem book Blood on the Snow.£1400: Other Borders by Tod FoleyJourney into a modern world of ancient conflicts, where secret rituals, divinations, animal sacrifices and hallucinatory drugs are gateways to the other side. The people here move in two worlds, and reality is more flexible than it seems.Tod Foley is the designer of the DayTrippers RPG and the collaborative apocalypse-generating game Watch the World Die, as well as assorted games and supplements for Iron Crown Enterprises including CyberSpace (1989), Space Master Companion (1987) and Kingdom of the Desert Jewel (1988).Look out for announcements soon on supplements for a Babylon 5-style gritty SF setting and some dreamy Lovecraft/Twin Peaks style weirdness in the city of Kingsport. Here are some sample spreads from the book: <img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5753/21791499363_620883523d_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5625/22386612406_2d44cd2e11_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />And here's a video showing the interior of the test printing: [video=youtube;w-OboHF2YEg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-OboHF2YEg[/video]That Kickstarter link again: <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1690011586/malandros-tales-from-the-streets-of-old-rio" target="_blank">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1690011586/malandros-tales-from-the-streets-of-old-rio</a></blockquote>

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