It’s rare for Geek Native to cover a second attempt at a Kickstarter. Why? There are so many crowdfunding campaigns each day that it’s complex and essential to work on adding value and discovering new things for readers.
SARIL is a tactical RPG that the blog has covered before. The Kickstarter campaign was yanked, and now, months later, SARIL is back.
I’ve played SARIL. It was a brief convention demo in a new tabletop event that wasn’t working out for the RPG traders. Graham of Radiation Burn, the designer and owner, had been given a less-than-stellar spot in an obscure corner.
I’m pleased I found him and relented to the demo because I quickly saw that SARIL worked. Here’s a game without the traditional combat rounds and a system for replacing them with gaming strategy.
SARIL is a system-neutral and generic RPG, and the new Kickstarter works much harder at bringing that to life. The first one was hit by a real-life crisis, but I much prefer the new one, and covering the side-boob on display with designer pics, whether planned or not, seems to improve the tone of the pitch.
SARIL is the TTRPG built for adventure. Whether that adventure is fantasy, Sci-fi, eldritch horror, cyberpunk, zombie apocalypse, political intrigue, disaster survival, or even Kaiju attack! The players may act in unison or discord but they will act at the same time!
The indie project can be supported through social media shares, shouting about it in the pub and cash pledges.
Backers who pledge £17 or more unlock the first rewards, and they are the PDFs for core rules, two adventures, digital maps and digital handouts for the adventures.
Another adventure, STL model files and art tokens, are added at £20.
With shipping restricted to only certain countries from inside Brexit Britain, the first physical reward unlocks at £37. That book is the core rule with two adventures. There are also additional adventures and the Roll20 character sheet in this tier.
Limited to just five copies, a £100 signed-book tier is the only big leap.
At £125, there’s an interesting wriggle where you can also pick up the license to sell certain minis from the STL library. In other words, you could stream SARIL, use particular minis for PCs, and then sell them via an Etsy shop.
Given that SARIL has had all this time to be developed and tweaked, the estimated delivery of November this year is ambitious but believable.
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