Role-Playing Games and Diversity: Interesting Links This Morning

[dewline]

A couple of things getting my attention as I take a short break from my own job search and other house chores:

1. ysabetwordsmith makes celebratory noises about Coyote and Crow, a Kickstarter-funded RPG designed by Indigenous gamers. You might want to take a look at the project yourselves!

2. james_davis_nicoll notes his review of Harlem Unbound, a Call of Cthulhu sourcebook created by Black American talent and set in Harlem during its 1930's Renaissance.

Both of these are, I suspect, worth attention from the larger communities of Dreamwidth.

Comments

[thewayne]

I backed Coyote and Crow at the hardback level! That's actually the third hardback RPG rules book that I've purchased this year: they revamped Land of the Rising Sun and I went ahead and ordered Chivalry & Sorcery to go along with it. I've only been getting PDFs for the longest.

Don't ask me how long it's been since I ran an RPG.

[dewline]

I've written for RPGs, but have never run a campaign that I can recall!

[thewayne]

It has probably been upwards of 20 years since I last wrote for an RPG.  It would have been for either a Flying Buffalo/Catalyst Citybook or a Maps project, can't remember which.  A group of us were working on an independent  side project, but it ultimately floundered and failed due to lack of interest in it: too small a writer's group to keep momentum going.

I try to avoid buying hardback RPG rules just like I avoid buying physical books: they take space IRL, something I try to be very conservative in filling.