Failbetter Games’ top-rated narrative game, Fallen London, turns 15 in 2025 and will celebrate with a TTRPG from Magpie Games.
We’ll receive more news about the project on August 23rd and via a live stream from Johnny Chiodini’s YouTube channel.
Magpie, who makes the Airbender RPG Avatar Legends, say on Facebook;
The Neath is vast, and waiting for you.
In partnership with Failbetter games, we are thrilled to announce Fallen London: the RPG coming to crowdfunding in early 2025!
In Fallen London: the Roleplaying Game, players create their own characters by drawing on the factions, archetypes, and settings of the city cutthroats, socialites, radicals, academics, and other, stranger creatures. They are brought together by a shared ambition; a very nearly unachievable goal. Such ambitions may destroy or drive mad those who pursue them…or they may change London forever.
Creep, coerce, brawl and swindle your way through the gaslit streets of a subterranean Victorian London.You might go mudlarking off Ladybones Road, eavesdrop in the ragged old market of Spite or arm-wrestle in Watchmaker’s Hill. As your renown grows, perhaps you’ll build out a railway to Hell or sail the uncaring waters of the Unterzee in pursuit of treasure, or terrible truths.
The Heart, as they say, is Destiny’s engine.
On Failbetter’s site they say;
We are giddy to announce that we are working with tabletop roleplaying legends Magpie Games to create Fallen London: The Roleplaying Game, a fully-fledged, custom tabletop roleplaying system for Fallen London, in a big book and everything!
The mention of a “custom tabletop roleplaying system” makes me wonder whether the Fallen London TTRPG will be a Powered by the Apocalypse game, as Magpie RPGs are.
Fallen London launched in 2010 and is still thriving. It presents a peculiar Victorian London submerged in darkness after being abducted by bats and relocated to a hellish abyss. This unique setting later expanded into the charmingly grim world of Sunless Sea (2015) and Sunless Skies (2019), where players captain doomed sea vessels and space trains, respectively.
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