Sanction is the RPG system that powers Paul Baldowski’s The Dee Sanction.
Baldowski is the author of the popular system The Cthulhu Hack, which is currently discounted in DriveThruRPG’s Cosmic Horror sale. At Tabletop Scotland this year, he told me he’d been noticing people using The Dee Sanction to run cosmic horror games, noir games and many others. As a result, Paul and All Rolled Up will be taking Sanction to Kickstarter to fund a system book for a core generic RPG you can wrap around any genre.
Sanction is a simple system for challenge-driven games, with player characters who are usually anything but heroes. The mechanics keep the game rolling forward. Facing a challenge means success, if you roll 3 or higher, or success with consequences, if you roll a 1 or 2. Players use dice of variable sizes — four-sided when the ability is weak or conditions working against them, up to a twelve-sided for areas of expertise, with the right tools, and all things working in their favour.
It’s expected that Sanction will have a £2k goal on the crowdfunding platform. Stretch goals will unlock settings for the book that provide GMs with worlds to take players to with Sanction rules.
Geek Native has a breakdown on those settings;
The Agency
The Agency: lo-fi espionage with dysfunctional intelligence operatives wage a secret war against enemies too dark or obscure for the public face of espionage to handle. An off-the-books spy setting. It is funded at £4,000.
The £4,000 goal will also embed The Agency setting into the printed book, expanding the overall count to 44 pages — including additional art.
Thruster Gold
Thruster Gold: with the Overlord defeated and the hero gone, chaos reigns amongst the factious rebels, and only your gaggle of mismatched minions can handle the battle against factious rebels attempting to fill the power vacuum. A pulp setting. It is funded at £6,000.
The £6,000 goal will also unlock a 3rd Party/Community Licence allowing anyone to make adventures, adversaries, or hacks for Sanction, whether to sell or publish for free.
Safety Lies in Fear
Safety Lies in Fear: A prequel to The Dee Sanction. Henry VIII shattered the monastic network of Catholicism in England and took the wealth and power for his own, but much remains buried for the treasure-seekers and scavengers… and something dangerous lies in wait, posing a threat that will spread far beyond these shores. It is funded at £8,000.
In the Midst of Shades
In the Midst of Shades: In the enlightened age of science, industry and expansion under the benevolent patronage of Queen Victoria, you are the vilified, disproven and ridiculed members of the Ghost Society, and there’s something strange afoot… is this an invasion from beyond? A setting of Victorian supernatural investigation. It is funded at £10,000.
The Kickstarter campaign for Sanction starts on the 9th of September, and Geek Native expects digital and softcover copies to be available. It’s likely backers pledging just shy of £10 will get the PDF downloads of Sanction as a thank you.
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