In 2022, Peter Cakebread took to Facebook to share a tough post. Ken Walton had left Cakebread & Walton due to ill health.
The company had published the official Abney Park’s Airship Pirates RPG and Clockwork & Chivalry. Peter explained, though, outlined all the roles that Ken had done and which he couldn’t do alone.
I am increasingly lost in the world of tech, and I’m not realistically going to be able to learn and deal with that side of things and be able to fulfill the side of things I am good at – being a games designer and writer. If I’m going to stay publishing, and get back to being more prolific, I need to rearrange things – and get someone with those publishing skills back on board. It’s my hope, so we can continue to produce cool games and serve our artists and writers well, that I can manage this.
It was not the end, said Peter, but it started to feel like it until this month.
OneDice: Bit Odd, Innit?
Now, with new partners in the company, Cakebread & Walton are on Kickstarter with OneDice: Bit Odd, Innit?
A new OneDice world is on the horizon thanks to this Kickstarter and a collaboration between Peter Cakebread, Chris Newton, Ian Stead, and Gary Buckland. This latest addition to the OneDice system, known for its streamlined d6-based mechanics, promises exciting adventures in a fresh setting from the UK publisher.
Goreton: A quaint English village where schoolyard bullies and homework are the least of your worries. In OneDice: Bit Odd, Innit?, teen adventurers face everyday horrors alongside eldritch creatures, sinister science experiments, and the chilling mysteries of the weekly meat raffle.
The game is standalone alone, so you do not need any other OneDice books, and the Kickstarter brings Goreton to US letter size hardback and softcover print editions.
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