There's a Kickstarter for a very cool game with some very generous rewards for backers in its final few days. It's Lester Smith's
d6xd6 CORE Roleplaying Game. It's a slick, rules-light multi-genre system that I think will take a place among your favorites once you play it.
As of this writing, the funding level is such that the book will be published in electronic and hard-copy formats and it will include the core game and 12 different settings written by (among others) Douglas Niles, Bruce Heard, Timothy Brown, Matt Forbeck, and Lester Smith himself. For me, one of the main attractions is the
World of Dragon Dice as an RPG setting.
Additional backers can bring additional settings to the book, however. If an additional $12,000 gets raised over the next five days, I will get to contribute a setting, as Im in the wings as a Stretch Goal. Click here to read more about the
d6xd6 CORE RPG Kickstarter and where it presently stands.
Lester Smith has posted a preview of the
d6xd6 CORE system
here. NUELOW Games published the first supplement to the game (even before it was officially published, which won't happen until December 2014) in
Judy of the Jungle: Murder Goes Native, because that's just how excited we are about it.
Here on the NUELOW blog, I also wrote up the
Black Cat and
Zaza the Mystic using d6xd6 CORE by way of further previewing the system. Now, here's news photographer Ace Williams and his assistant Foggy (stars of the upcoming NUELOW book
Newshounds #1) to the d6xd6 CORE character line-up. I've also included a new occupation and a couple new skills.
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| Ace Williams and Jessica "Foggy" Gibbons. Art by Matt Baker. |
ACE WILLIAMS ("The Ace of the Newsreels")
Globetrotting news photographer who always gets to the truth and brings home the
shot.
Real Name: Ace Williams •
Gender: Male •
Age: 31
Attributes
Focused: Will
Unfocused: Brawn, Wits
Unknown: Grace
Occupation: Reporter (Photojournalist)
Focused Skills: Photography (Occupation Bonus), Navigation, Persuasion, Sneaking, Tracking
Unfocused Skills: Athletics, Bargain, Writing
Focus Rating: 5
FOGGY
Former Olympic athlete turned Girl Friday.
Real Name: Jessica Frances Gibbons •
Gender: Female •
Age: 26
Attributes
Focused: Grace
Unfocused: Brawn, Will
Unknown: Wits
Occupation: Servant (Girl Friday)
Focused Skills: Bargain (Occupation Bonus), Driving, Swimming
Unfocused Skills: Athletics, Photography, Writing
Focus Rating: 3
NEW d6xd6 CORE OCCUPATION
Reporter: You are dedicated to bringing the truth to the public, whether those in power (or even the public) want it or not. Alternatively, you are bring the world news about the lighter side of life, such as covering high society functions, reporting on the latest plays or movies in theaters, and so on. You could be on-staff with a newspaper, television station, or major online news website, or you could be a roving freelancer, covering whatever stories you feel are important. Bonus skills for this occupation can be Photography, Sneaking, Tracking, and Writing.
NEW d6xd6 CORE SKILLS
Photography: You can capture the mood and reality of a moment with a click of your camera... or you can create the reality of a moment by properly framing an image. You can also make the ugliest baby look cute, and most disastrous wedding look romantic. (Artisans and Reporters might select this as their Occupation bonus skill.)
Writing: While a picture may be worth a thousand words, the right words can change the world. You are skilled at choosing those words and putting them in fixed form.
