Pathfinder Gets A New CRPG...Sort Of

Pathfinder is getting a new computer roleplaying game. Streetlight Studios has announced Moondrift Memory: Prologue, a new video game built using the Pathfinder 2E rules set. The game is a Unity game built with a new Starstone game engine that includes a robust rules builder. According to a Kickstarter preview page, Moondrift Memory is a top-down isometric CRPG that will take players into the valley region of Moondrift. From our cursory glance, Moondrift doesn't appear to be tied to Golarion in any way.

From the looks of things, Streetlight Studios is brand new and the use of "Pathfinder Compatible" in its marketing imagery suggests that it's not actually licensed by Paizo, but relies on the ORC license to use the PF2E ruleset. There's also a Reddit post that claims the studio is tied to an ex-moderator of the site, with a less-than-savory reputation.

You can check out the description of the game below:

Moondrift Memory is a top down isometric CRPG that uses the Pathfinder Second Edition ruleset. In this Prologue chapter, players will take their party of up to four characters, including their own character they create, to complete a quest that they have accepted from Lilywall, a start-up Adventurer's Guild, that finally got their first big break.

The valley region of Moondrift lies at the foot of a great mountain, where it lies covered in snow and constant night, known as the Parasol Days, that the latitude brings. At a site where a dragon has been slain, butchers, leatherworkers, and a myriad of other artisans work tirelessly to fairly distribute the valuable parts of the dragon's body. You and your party have been assigned to help guard the site; however while contingent members are working on the dragon, caravan guards discover the ruins of what was once a dragon's lair. Your party quests into the lair in hopes of salvaging essential resources and perhaps even find rare treasure within. But what dangers lurk in these ruins?

 

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Where did you hear that? After a cursory glance the mod of asian descent had to stop down because he got into a power tripping argument with someone whether Samurais are racist or not

Can’t find any receipts of him being racist

Its a little complicated, basically Luck has a standing grudge against the Japanese (from what I understand, due to historical stuff) and see's Japanese cultural elements from the space (e.g. fantasy samurai/ninja and stuff) to be racist against other Asians, so was using the concept of Orientalism to try and police users on the sub who were hoping for explicit support for those kinds of characters-- we have precedent for this kind of thing from a bunch of cultures so the request wasn't weird at all in context. They tried to interpret self-representation in Japanese created fantasy being used as inspiration as being similar to "I can't be racist i have friends who are X."

They made some weird conspiracy comments about Ninjas being invented by white people in the 1960s, and went really hard on Samurai being evil (which yeah sure, but not more than other kinds of aristocratic warrior class types) in a way that was pretty clearly being used as a proxy for some other sentiments. They also made some off-color comments denying Irish oppression on the basis that the Irish were white, and did uh, not appreciate other Asians chiming in about disagreeing with him, and removed a post for asking about how to run a game set/inspired by the Sengoku period of Japanese history. I've seen other users alluding to anti-hispanic sentiment in their posting history, but I don't recall having seen it first hand.

As far as we can tell, they were essentially using the Orientalism stuff as a cover for their specific feelings regarding the Japanese and an excuse to make talking about fantasy from that culture able to be moderated as racism.