[Rollenspiel] Things to come - Numenera & Thunderscape

Heute will ich mal rasch auf zwei Kickstarter verweisen, wobei der eine schon abgeschlossen ist und somit in Bälde auch zu erhalten sein wird, während der zweite kurz davor ist gefundet zu werden.

Numenéra

"Numenéra" ist ein Sci-Fantasy-RPG von Monte Cook, den man ja z.B. von D&D ganz gut kennt.

Numenera is set a billion years in the future. Civilizations have risen and fallen on Earth. Even though the current inhabitants live at about a Medieval level of technology, the leftover remnants of these advanced societies lie all around them. Some of these are extremely helpful: advanced tools, valuable means of communication and learning, transportation, defenses, and weapons. Others are dangerous: genetically altered monstrosities, flesh-warping radiation, creatures transplanted from distant stars, and clouds of out-of-control nanobots, just to name a few. This setting, called the Ninth World, provides all manner of opportunities and challenges to those that call it home.

Warum ich das Projekt so interessant finde? 

Ganz einfach: Es liegt zum einen sehr in meiner Geschmacksrichtung von Settings, die nicht unbedingt einem strickten Genre folgen, sondern mehre Genres miteinander vermischen. Zudem erinnert mich das Setting auch sehr z.B. an "Dying Earth" von Jack Vance.

Ich glaube, da steckt ein gewaltiges Potential in dem Projekt, weswegen ich mir zumindest das Grundbuch mal holen werde - ob nun englisch oder nicht!

Weitere Infos: Numenéra - Kickstarter

Thunderscape: The World of Aden

"Thunderscape: The World of Aden" ist ein Steam-Horror-Fantasy-Setting für Pathfinder - und somit auch für andere D20-Produkte verwertbar:

Thunderscape: the World of Aden introduces readers to the battered but unbroken world of Aden, a world where knights and sorcerers fight shoulder to shoulder with mechamagical golems against the nightmarish hordes spawned by the Darkfall, a supernatural cataclysm of unknown origin. Ten years ago, the sun was suddenly and unexpectedly eclipsed by an unknown force. Although the darkness lasted only a short time, in those long moments of false night, horrors beyond imagining sprang from every shadow. Beasts long destroyed, terrors that had only ever been imagined, and things that no sane mind had ever contemplated all became suddenly, violently real, and Aden burned. The nocturnals, as these beasts became known, slaughtered countless thousands and put an untold number of villages and cities to the torch. In one instant, the world of Aden was plunged into chaos and anarchy. Having known only peace for more than a thousand years, the nations of Aden were ill-prepared for this ruthless onslaught, and it seemed that the world of the mortal races would perish without ever knowing the cause. But the people of Aden are hardier than that. The world was in the throes of an industrial revolution, with magic and technology being tied together into a strange arcane art known as mechamagic. With this, and with the many other strengths brought to bear by the nations of Aden, the world fights back against the Darkfall and the nocturnals.

Warum ich das Projekt so interessant finde? 

Auch ganz einfach: Ähnlich wie auch bei "Numenéra" wird hier auf ein strikte Genre gepfiffen und wieder munter die Genrekiste gemischt. Zudem erinnert es mich sehr an so coole Settings wie die "Iron Kingdoms" oder "Eberron" und daher bekomme ich da schon so ein kribbeln, wenn ich die Inhaltsangabe lese.

Weitere Infos: Thunderscape: The World of Eden - Kickstarter