July 15th NUNA Quickstart & Free Preview

Hello friends,

Below is the announcement of the NUNA Quickstart launch I've posted on my gaming profiles.

TLDR Free preview (players characters) and 65 page Quickstart drop the 15th.

Please spread the word and watch here for updates.

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Atelihai (Hello)!

I'm Tedankhamen, I'm a Labrador NunatuKavut Inuit and I won the 2024 Chaosium RPG Design contest for my Inuit RPG, NUNA. I've always disliked the depiction of the Arctic as 'savage wasteland' in games and fiction so NUNA presents the Inuit as masters of a living north who have awe inspiring Cultural ablities. I am also saddened by infighting by Canada's Inuit groups, so this game is a love letter to Labrador and a wish for peace between the NunatuKavut and Nunatsiavut, the two groups of Inuit created by colonial policies of Canada.

The 65 page Quickstart rules will be available at DriveThru RPG on July 15th, so please spread the word and pick up a copy. There is also a free preview of the Player Characters, which include an Inuit Hunter and a Shaman Whisperer. The Quickstart has combat rules and the scenario The Silver Machine. I intend to publish the full Corebook, which includes Cultural abilities and rules for supporting Communities, by year end.

I have run playtests at Rain City Games here in Vancouver, and am talks to do a promotional event and distribute physical copies there.

Also, on my roleplaying blog I've been writing a review of Coyote & Crow that has gotten thousands of reads, so check it out (https://tomboftedankhamen.blogspot.com/) if you want to see what is great about decolonial gaming in general and Coyote & Crow specifically.

Nekumek!

NUNA Player Characters Free Preview

 Just submitted it to DriveThru.

Look for it and the PWYW Quickstart in 3 days!!

Now time for an ice cream with sonny.

PS Looking good.

NUNA Update - The return of whimsy, the start of the hardest part, and Elric's Secret Part four

The text of NUNA is filled with art, and once I finalize the cover, it will be ready to go. Some of the interior pictures are quite whimsical and I think whimsical art is kind of dwindling these days. Most modern RPG art is professional and pompous and overly self-important, so glad to give a bit of that old-school vibe back.

It has also been nice getting my drawing skills back. I can see things improve the more I draw. But I need to get into coloring and broader techniques at some point.

Now that the text is ready to go, the hard part begins.

I'm talking networking, promotion, beating the drum.

But I am excited for the challenge!

If anyone is interested, here is another installment in my Elric's Secret pastiche series.

Art & Life Advice

OK, Nuna text is finished. Just need to add a half dozen sketches at important points, redesign the covers, and it is off to the printer. I'll also have to get the gameshop launch party planned, as well as online sales set up.

But feels great to have come this far.

My whole life I have been called a Dreamer, but that is how I have made so many of my dreams come true.

I wanted to live in Japan. Spent 22 years there.

I wanted to be a professor. I got tenure in Japan, but quit to care for sonny.

I wanted to be a martial artist. I got blackbelt in karate, then won 2nd place in my city in Japan.

I wanted to learn Japanese. I taught myself to the JLPT level 1, the highest you can get.

I wanted to get my son out of Japan. Now we enjoy life in Vancouver.

I wanted to be a game designer. Now here I am.

In my life, people have mostly been supportive of my dreams. But there are always negative voices, and our inner voice often sides with them against our own dreams.

So I say to you, Dream big!

Don't listen to the naysayers.

Keep at it with incremental action.

And whatever dream you have, you can make it reality.

Nekmek!

First Character Complete

 

This was a detailed process of addition and modification. But I like how it turned out.

Time for a walk and a snack.

Skills might seem meager to modern players, but are made up for by Cultural abilities and impresses the need for cooperation and community instead of maxed out individuals.

NUNA Character sheet Sneak Peek

BRP character sheets have always staggered under the burden of all the information they have to hold. So with NUNA, I tried to simplify in three ways.

First, a sheet that helps with character generation so you don't have to look through the rulebook so much.

Next, a sheet that just asks you for the essentials.

Last, a sheet that is function over form. I would like to produce a creative or artistic sheet at some point, but bigger fish to fry at the moment.

ENJOY!

NUNA Update, Game Designer ADD, and Elric's Secret Part Three

 Greetings!

I've gone silent running mode the past few days as I have been editing and rewriting NUNA Quickstart.

It is 99.99% done.

WHEW!

I still have to rejigger the PC stats (they were a bit underpowered) and add art. Then it is off to the printers! Then the social media blitz and networking begins.

Exciting. There are so many facets to making an RPG. The making is just the start of it. The connecting to community and getting your name out there is a much bigger part of the process, I have learned.

Wish me all the luck I wish you.

One thing I have noticed, is that Gamer ADD, ie having so many games you don't know which to play, extends to designing games as well. My game of Japan, Giri-Ninjo, is next in my sights. But I have plans for a Call of Cthulhu series of adventures with recurring characters, as well as a Coyote & Crow adventure I ran here in Vancouver.

But as a designer you will NEVER get anything done if you don't commit to finish one game before you work on the next.

In preparation for the final artwork of NUNA, here is the next chapter in Elric's Secret, my satirical mashup of Elric and old time bodybuilding ads.

(NB Had to re-upload the pic as the mesh shirt didn't show)