Gavriel Quiroga’s TTRPG, a tribute to 80s zines and William Burroughs, has smashed its humble $3,000 Kickstarter goal.
On offer is a spin-off from the Hell Night RPG setting and the campaign runs until June 2.
There’s a recommended Spotify playlist for the campaign pitch.
We’re told that a group of psychonauts with anarcho-punk tendencies attempt to understand our reality through paranormal studies and lysergic exploration. We’re also told that these brave souls steal an experimental drug from the military and find it’s more than they can handle!
Backers don’t need Hell Night to play The Black Rainbow Society because the latter includes a streamlined version of the former. However, I imagine some people will want the phat rule set.
The Black Rainbow Society is as much an art project as it is an RPG setting. Inspirations include Scanners, Hellraiser, The Lost Boys, and William Burroughs’s pen.
Black Rainbow Society has been created with dadaist cut-up techniques and various meditative states. The book is a melting pot of 80s cultural references, featuring collages, art interventions, doodles, photography, old newspapers, and fragments of various media that will deliver an intoxicating kaleidoscopic vision for the reader, recreating a lysergic experience while providing insight into our setting. The game has been tested in a currently active campaign with my playgroup Los Caoticos (playtesters of Neurocity, Warpland, Sygil, & Hell Night.)
Backers who pledge $6 get a PDF copy of the RPG as a reward.
At $29, there’s a PDF of Hell Night added in and a physical copy of The Black Rainbow Society.
There are higher tiers, as at $90, there are physical copies of Hell Night, The Damned, Sygil (with expansion) and The Black Rainbow Society.
Gavriel Quiroga estimates a July delivery for the campaign, and if that sounds ambitious, this sci-fi fan has plenty of experience with Kickstarter.
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