Vapourware Josh Sawyer wants to make a historical RPG

[FreeKaner]

Josh was asked about his historical RPG plans on SA: http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...=17931&perpage=40&pagenumber=15#post466490950

A historical turn-based RPG set in one of two criminally underrated periods of history?

Sawyer is truly a saint.

 

[Sigourn]

Egyptian RPG with Anubis animal companion and mummy bromance fucking when

 

[pippin]

TB Renaissance Darklands. I'd probably even figstarter that.

Lionheart 2?

 

[vonAchdorf]

TB Renaissance Darklands. I'd probably even figstarter that.

Lionheart 2?

The IP is currently for sale.

 

[commie]

Josh was asked about his historical RPG plans on SA: http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...=17931&perpage=40&pagenumber=15#post466490950

A historical turn-based RPG set in one of two criminally underrated periods of history?

Sawyer is truly a saint.

HRE would be good but mid-late US also has so much going for it. The whole period from before war, gangs of new york type era, wild west, late 19th century industrial action..all the corruption,innovation,violence. RPG's just write themselves.

 

[FreeKaner]

Josh was asked about his historical RPG plans on SA: http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...=17931&perpage=40&pagenumber=15#post466490950

A historical turn-based RPG set in one of two criminally underrated periods of history?

Sawyer is truly a saint.

HRE would be good but mid-late US also has so much going for it. The whole period from before war, gangs of new york type era, wild west, late 19th century industrial action..all the corruption,innovation,violence. RPG's just write themselves.

Post-civil war USA is underrated as well, as I said one of two criminally underrated periods of history, one or other.

 

[LESS T_T]

 

[vortex]

In latest Q&A, Sawyer said historical RPG would be turn-based, party based but not in a way you're thinking.
It's a mystery.

 

[FreeKaner]

Alchemy is not medieval, at least not in Europe. Alchemy as it's often presented in fantasy is an early modern concept.

 

[DragoFireheart]

I want a Colonial rpg that takes place in the late 1700's/ early 1800's in the United States.

Make the Native Americans have spirit magic.

Be able to choose factions: save the poor savages, or enlighten them with the teachings of Christ?

Make one of the big quests finding California / Cali gold rush.

 

[Barnabas]

What about a game that's set in the Matrix, but instead of being 1999, it can be a version of the Matrix programmed to replicate America in say 1880.

(If you want to promote this idea please refer to this post as your source).

 

[vonAchdorf]

Alchemy is not medieval, at least not in Europe. Alchemy as it's often presented in fantasy is an early modern concept.

Sawyer wants to make a early modern period game.

 

[TT1]

This is a game I´d like to play. Please, JS, take my money.

 

[Chaotic_Heretic]

What I would like to see is a TB Classless RPG with Shamanistic tradition of the Maori/Native Americans weaved into it. Think about it. The Astral Plane is where you do SMT:Nocturne type recruiting/fusing spirits and equipping them as totems, which heavily influences your stats/abilities. And in the material plane you do missions to retain your shamanistic powers and dominion over our tribe, maybe expand them. Oh well I can only dream. Played lot of settings with euro-centric mythos. Though I definitely do not want Swayer to design the systems and gameplay for this shaman rpg. But Ziets should take a hugeee part in writing it.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

How about 17th century France musketeer setting with political intrigue and espionage?

 

[vortex]

Well, Arcanum also has historical setting with time period in 1888 along with fantasy/steampunk tone in the process of an industrial revolution. How about Arcanum/Darklands succesor with unique world?

 

[vonAchdorf]

I think the wants his historical RPG to be more grounded in reality (and in the early modern era).

 

[vortex]

I think the wants his historical RPG to be more grounded in reality (and in the early modern era).

He said its not in a way you're thinking. So, I got impression there will be some twist or something which will elevate historical setting or reality we know it.

 

[Lacrymas]

Cave-man RPG, you don't get more historic than that.

 

[Delterius]

Alchemy is not medieval, at least not in Europe. Alchemy as it's often presented in fantasy is an early modern concept.

I thought early modern Alchemy had roots that went back to muslim and jewish communities of the medieval period.

 

[Invictus]

IMAgine a Darklands inspired game set after the middle ages and the beginning of the Reinasance so you could have the classic medieval setting along a very powerful Catholic Church but a more wide open map where you could have the whole of europe as the backdrop to your adventures.
Hell I would even take a straight up remake of Darklands with the PoE graphics anyday

 

[ERYFKRAD]

IMAgine a Darklands inspired game set after the middle ages and the beginning of the Reinasance so you could have the classic medieval setting along a very powerful Catholic Church but a more wide open map where you could have the whole of europe as the backdrop to your adventures.
Hell I would even take a straight up remake of Darklands with the PoE graphics anyday

Legends of Eisenwald and its expansion: Blood of November.
Darth Roxor and sser approved and all.

 

[cannondwarf]

Gothic plate armor, proper twohanded longswords and poleaxes

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Gothic plate armor, proper twohanded longswords and poleaxes

See post above, bro.

 

[cannondwarf]

Thanks, looks promising!