I Think My Next Project Has Found Me

With the world the way it is, my design work has been hit or miss lately. On top of this having to more or less go into business for myself has wrecked a lot of my creative time. I've started a couple of new projects, and then stopped them because of interruptions on the business side of things. But I think that my next project is opening itself up to me. I am (tentatively) calling it Adventures In The Cyberaktive. It is going to be a cyberpunk game using the system from Adventures In The Unknown.

All of this is still early, so it is very much subject to change. But I'm going to write some form of a cyberpunk game with an antifascist vibe like Adventures In The Unknown. Anyone who knows me knows that I love cyberpunk, and if you've gamed with me, there is a very good chance that I've run a cyberpunk game of some sort that you've played in. Honestly? I never planned to write a cyberpunk game, mostly because there are so many of them already. I never had the itch to scratch for a cyberpunk game. However, ever since I started working on Adventures In The Unknown there's been a little voice that's been saying "Maybe it's time for a cyberpunk game?" And I guess I finally listened.

I'm still working out the details of what I want this game to be, but my favorite William Gibson novel is Pattern Recognition and I think that one thing that RPG publishers are missing out on is cyberpunk stuff set (more or less) in the current world. Just a current world where things like cybernetics actually work for people, rather than being a pie in the sky idea from an oligarch who no one in their right mind would let near their bodies with medical tools.

I'll be posting more as I write it. This is probably going to be longer of a manuscript than Adventures In The Unknown, but it still isn't going to be a gigantic game. I am hoping to shoot for an upper limit of about 200 pages (the current release of Adventures in The Unknown is 90 pages). A lot of this will be because of having to explain things like cybernetics. I am thinking about a system of psionics for the game too. Maybe.

Adventures In The Cyberaktive will be a standalone game, but you will be able to pull material and characters between the two games. I am not making any dramatic changes to the rules that I've already written.

Chris

You can currently find my games on itch.io and DriveThruRPG.

Action-Heroes on itch.

Adventures In The Unknown on itch and on DriveThru. (affiliate link at DriveThru)

A New Era

I keep saying that I am going to dust off the blog and start posting to it again, and now I have some news that's going to cause me to be more active here. Outland Entertainment, the original publishers of my Action-Heroes Adventure Role-Playing Game, have decided that they are going to return the rights to that game to me. It is sad news, but unfortunately with the current weirdness of the economy things like this are going to happen. I appreciate the help that Outland Entertainment gave in getting that game ready and out to press. Honestly, Action-Heroes wouldn't be the game it is with their involvement.

What does this mean? Well, going forward I am going to self-publish the game and produce new material on my one for it on my own. We will be transferring the existing book on DriveThruRPG from Outland Entertainment to myself, so it will continue to be available on that site. I will also be offering the PDF via my existing itch.io page, so you can buy it along with my Adventures in the Unknown game. Once I receive the production files for the game, and am able to update them to reflect my ownership of it, I will update all the files on DriveThruRPG. I will also stop offering the hardcover version of the game and only sell it in softcover once everything is transferred and updated, so it you want a hardcover of the book you should buy it before I update everything. Hardcovers are a pain to move around and ship, so I am going to stick to the one physical format.

But! This does mean that Adventures in the Unknown will be available eventually on DriveThruRPG, as will any other game/supplement that I put out from here on out. This will allow me to offer a physicals edition of Adventures, which I am excited about. I will nee to make some updates to the files for that, before I can offer it over at DriveThru (and any changes will be made to the current version on itch.io as well for people who already own it).

Going forward I will make what new material I can for all of my games, but since this is now a one person operation, and I am not an artist by any stretch of the imagination, my resources for new material will be limited. If you want to see new supplements and new games, that will mean supporting the games that I am selling because the money for new stuff will come from sales of existing stuff. I will put out material as quickly as I can, but that will be the main limitation to things. I am excited, but I am very proud of my work on Action-Heroes and I am glad to see that the game will be able to continue to exist.

All of this will mean some changes over here at the blog. I will continue to talk about general pop culture trends, comics, music and other fun things, but I won't be reviewing RPG stuff any more here. I don't think it is right for me to use this blog as a platform for my publishing, and potentially say negative things about other publishers' products like that. Will I still do call outs to bad behavior? Probably, but it won't be here on my blog. That's pretty much what social media is for.

This is everything at the moment. I will post more on social media, once we've begun to transfer files on DriveThruRPG and I have started selling other of my games at itch.io and DriveThruRPG. 

I am excited for the future. Keep an eye open over here at the blog for announcements, as well as at my Bluesky account. Talk with you more very soon!