Last week’s RPG news summary, Routinely Itemised, speculated that Cyberpunk and The Witcher tabletop RPG publisher R. Talsorian Games’ secret project was something Blue Moon related.
I was right, but not all the way right. Blue Moon is the code name of Cody Pondsmith’s project.
There’s now been two teasers for us to ponder over. The first read;
You’ve seen beyond the mask and now you must make a choice: forget what you’ve seen or leave what you know behind. If you join us, you’ll be able to protect everything you’ve ever known and everything beyond your wildest dreams. Our enemy lurks in the darkest corners of reality. They hide behind masks of deception, waiting to strike.
But remember, once you step through the gate you cannot go back.
Return here on August 31st and your next destination will be revealed.
Don’t miss it.
The second is for The First World: Nakatsukuni and offers more worldbuilding and setting insight.
It’s hard to believe this is where it all started. Looking at the peaceful streets and the vibrant life it’s hard to imagine a time when this world was burning away to oblivion. To imagine great armies of humans and spirits waging a hopeless war against a corrupted deity employing once-peaceful creatures, twisted into a horde of mindless monsters, to collect souls for a traitorous Afterlife.
Yet, even now, this world still isn’t safe. The enemy continues to finds ways to slither past our defenses. In the wake of the Hundred Years of Sorrow and the Reunification Wars, this world struggles to recover. The wilderness is overgrown and perilous. The cities, tainted by an unrest born from years of fear and conflict. Despite our best efforts we cannot watch every dingy alley and dark corner.
R. Talsorian says September 30th is when we’ll get another chance to step through the gate. They say we’re going;
To a world of steel and steam where the engines of innovation are fueled by the sacrifice of the masses. Where the enemy seeks to spark a revolution to bring down history’s greatest empire and plunge the world into chaos.
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