All the way from Geek Native’s home city of Edinburgh, Jack King-Spooner has thrashed a Zine Quest funding goal for the tabletop RPG Sluggish Morss.
The pitch video is surreal, and the headline promises flesh-eating subversion at the end of time. Ah, Leith, maybe? You can join the mind-bending corruption at your whim.
Sluggish Morss is a shared story set in the future with all sorts of psychological and other quirks. Inspirations include Asimov’s Foundation and Cities of the Red Night by William Burroughs.
Players take the roles of beings investigating and inspecting Time Expressions such as paradoxes, doppelgangers and other weirdness beyond the grasp of most people.
The funded game will have six different highly configurable Beings for players to be, such as Slimes, Fleshlopods or Bobots. There will be 150 or so far future professionals such as Vapour Racer and dozens of hostiles to terrorise the PCs with.
The system uses 6d6 with dice relating to States, such as Super Ego, Body and Earthly Pursuits and being modified by Treasures.
With Sluggish Morss: The Table Top RPG I have aimed to be as generous and considerate as possible; with the writing, with the art, with the concepts but, perhaps most importantly, with the reader’s time. The book is in the spirit of the softback ttrpgs of the 90s, with their gleeful, feverish creativity. I want a book that is fun to play but also just as enjoyable to open up, read a paragraph, look at some pictures and get something from that.
Not sure it’s for you? There’s a Name Your Own Price download at Itch.
For those willing and ready to back the project, then £10 will get you a PDF copy of Sluggish Morss.
Backers at £28 get a print copy and the PDF, with shipping to be added, and Backerkit handling the fulfilment.
Signed copies are also available for the same price, which is a very nice touch, except they’re limited in number. That’s likely to protect Jack’s wrist!
There are other limited editions, such as the £45 option that comes with some pre-gens and the £150 one, at the top, that comes with a playtester credit.
Jack estimates a delivery of July 2024 for Sluggish Morss and is running the Kickstarter until the 7th of March.
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