Colostle is half-writing, half-game, which makes it a solo RPG. It’s not a rare approach, but Colostle has found a rare success, listing in “The Best Games of 2021” from Tabletop Gaming Magazine, earning more than 300 subscribing patreons and smashing Kickstarter targets with an expansion.
There’s still nearly a month to get involved. The campaign includes the core rules as an option, making it a practical starting point. At the time of writing, nearly 700 people have done just that. You can find out more or pledge from the pitch page.
Colostle uses playing cards, not dice, but some standard RPG practices are evident. The solo RPG, for example, has classes, and the Roomlands, the expansion that the Kickstarter campaign is funding, adds two more to pick from.
There’s also new types of Rooms, a new guided campaign to work through and some fantastic looking art in the hardback.
It looks like the campaign is a sure-fire success, so we should see 70 pages, in A4, in colour and black and white. The art is so good that it is hard to know which one to showcase in this write-up.
The Colostle, an impossibly massive castle, the interior of which is so large that mountains, valleys, towns, cities and even oceans fill its rooms, with the ceilings and roof so high they are beyond sight, shrouded by the misty expanse of the sky, that sits within it’s vaulted heights.
Patrolling the Rooms of the Colostle are the Rooks, huge stone automatons that look like castle towers but with arms and legs. They are formidable opponents, and will attack you if they spot you, but if you can take one down, rewards of magic and mechanical parts will be yours.
A pledge of £5 is all that’s required to unlock the PDF edition of The Roomlands.
Backers who find £10 for the project will be rewarded with the base rulebook for Colostle and The Roomlands in PDF.
The hardback edition for The Roomlands is there at £20, you can’t just get the hardback of the core rules, but you can get hardbacks of both for £40.
The project is expected to ship around August this year.
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