Who is going to be at PAX Unplugged? Hamish Cameron will be offering The Sprawl: Touched Prime at Games on Demand and I will be offering a cyberpunk version of Dinosaur Princesses! Come stop by and say “Hi!”!
Dinosaur Princesses 3030: Dino and Chrome—”You and your team are cyberpunk dinosaurs who are freelance princesses doing dangerous gigs for the megacorps. When trouble complicates your mission, how will you fight your way out? Through teamwork, that’s for sure!”
And some shameless self-promotion: Dinosaur Princesses only has a couple hours left on Kickstarter. Dino and Chrome won’t be released as part of the main game cuz we didn’t get to that stretch goal, but it will be coming eventually!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ardensludere/dinosaur-princesses-a-story-game-for-all-ages
Dana Cameron Maybe the explanation for newer players should be included as a matter of course, not a stretch goal. And if it is to attract younger players, a pronunciation guide for dinosaur names is needed. Buuuut, I’ve not pledged for it so I have no valid opinion!
Pierre Savoie The advice for running games for younger players will be in the main book, no worries there. We also have a developmental editor who is experienced with games for and by kids who will be making sure the rulebook is accessible for all audiences (who are able to read).
How did the Touched Prime and Dinosaur Princesses 3030 sessions go at PAX Unplugged?
Eric Ullman Dinosaur Princesses went really well! I wasn’t really expecting anyone to choose the 3030 DINO AND CHROME version, but I ended up running it twice (and one game of the regular version). My players seemed to have a good time. I’m still a rreeaalllllyyy new GM—the only game I have ever run is normal Dinosaur Princesses—so I just tried to channel my best Hamish Cameron to cover everything in chrome and bathe everything in neon, whilst still trying to hold on to the Saturday-morning-cartoon feel.
In my first game, the characters lived in a huge compartmentalized city owned entirely by DinAmazon. They were part of an underground resistance, but they got word that a spy had given the corp data about their group. The resistance Woolley Mammoth Fixer sent them to go find and retrieve/destroy the data. They went with a shock-and-awe approach and smashed into the data facility, murdered all the guards (and innocent office workers), and grabbed the data…and the AI-in-a-TRex-fleshbody Hacker Dinosaur Princess snagged an extra data packet. After delivering the info to the resistance fixer, the hacker decrypted the extra file they had found…to discover that the spy had been the resistance leader…DUN DUN DUN!!!
The second 3030 game took place in a more Metropolis-like setting, all underground and in tunnels and such. One of the Dinosaur Princesses was a Hover-Train Driver (yes, they were actually the train), which was thoroughly delightful. I ran a sort-of-kind-of Kurasawa Extraction mission from The Sprawl (unplanned and unprepped), and it went generally well. The characters had a choice to either deliver the target to the corp they wanted to defect to or to return them to corp they were fleeing…the characters chose to return the target and get paid Big Corp Creds.
I’m looking forward to more cyberpunk dinosaur princesses!!!
Dana Cameron Those both sound so great (though I don’t seem to remember much murdering in my Saturday morning cartoons—LOL)! Congrats on rapidly increasing your DM cred. 👍 Were Hamish Cameron’s games a success? Did players line up for The Sprawl Touched?
Happy holidays to you both!
Two runs, both of which went very well!