Nyambe: African Adventures -- off to press!

[JohnNephew]

I'm pleased to announce that today we sent NYAMBE: AFRICAN ADVENTURES to the printer!

The book will be available at Gen Con at the Atlas Games booth. Barring a delay beyond our control at the printer, the book should also be showing up in stores the same week, as we plan to ship to distributors before we leave for the show.

Meanwhile, Occult Lore is due to arrive from the printer and begin its journey to game stores in the middle of next week (6/19, to be specific, is when our printer scheduled delivery). We'll be putting up at least one more OL preview PDF on the website; in July our plan is to have weekly previews of Nyambe online.

-John Nephew
President, Atlas Games

 

[BV210]

SWEET! I've been waiting for this since I stumbled across the original Nyambe PDF and then heard it was being picked up by Atlas. I've always wanted to do an Africa inspired campaign, but never had enough source material to make it more than just "gee, we're in a jungle instead of a forest."

 

[mythusmage]

Any chance of copies at this year's Comicon? (San Diego, Aug. 1st-4th)

(I'd scam a review copy, but I still haven't written reviews for the stuff I got back in 1993.)

 

[Hand of Evil]

Very much looking forward to this game!

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[CWD]

Whew! What a relief.

I'm very happy with this book. The artwork is absolutely stunning, and I'm quite satisfied with the content. Though the book is fantasy, I tried my best to imitate real-world cultures, kingdoms, historical events, and people.

For example:

* When you read about the Marak'ka unburying their dead and having a meal with them - that's a real ritual.
* When you read about a culture engaging in mass human sacrifices to stop an invading army, that really happened (except in real-life it didn't work).
* When you read about the Mbanta claiming fish people from space taught them about astrology, that was a real claim made by the Dogon people.
* Kwo the Hungering Lion is a direct rip-off of Sundiata, the "real" Hungering Lion.
* The celestial orisha are a fantasy rework of the real orisha honored in the Yoruba religion.
* N!ok, the patron orisha of the kosan orcs is named after Nok, a village in Nigeria that developed ironsmithing.
* If its not obvious, the Shombe are loosely based on the real-world Maasai.

I could go on, but you get the idea. If I ever get the time, I'll write up a guide showing what was stolen from where for people who are interested in creating homebrew African settings.

 

[Mystic Eye]

I have been looking forward to seeing this book. Andy Hopp did a lot of the art from what I understand so it will be a pretty book with great content that has not had enough treatment in the past.

 

[Horacio]

Since I discovered the wonderful PDF I'm looking forward this book.
I think it will be one of the most innovative rpg ever published, a total change from standard fantasy.

 

[der_kluge]

Page count?
MSRP?

 

[EricNoah]

http://www.enworld.org/d20reviews.asp?sub=yes&where=currentprod&which=nyam

 

[JohnNephew]

Any chance of copies at this year's Comicon? (San Diego, Aug. 1st-4th)

Unfortunately, it is not likely to make it to Comicon (though there is an outside chance if the printer is early somehow, since it misses the boat, so to speak, by only a few days).

Glad to see so much excitement about the book! We're certainly thrilled by it ourselves...