Rogue Games releases Colonial Gothic revised!
Posted by Kim | Filed under Tabletop RPG
Last week, Rogue Games released Colonial Gothic Revised, a long-awaited follow-up to, er, Colonial Gothic (I know, you couldn’t guess that on your own, right?). This is such a cool game. As you’d presume, it takes place around the time of the USA’s colonization, and the years leading up to the American Revolution.
Oh, you think history is boring, do you? How about we throw in some magic, and supernatural enemies? Yeah, that got you thinking, didn’t it?
This game was a very early release from Rogue, and the play was a bit buggy – some inconsistencies, things left out of the rulebook, etc. However, with the Revised edition, just about all of that has been fixed. There’s so much more information, and a lot of the inconsistencies have been cleaned up with regards to the rules, etc.
There’s a free 7-page preview downloadable from the e23 link at the beginning of this post. It consists of some background info in the form of letters, and some chapter excerpts.
The players take on the characters of more-or-less everyday people, dragged out of their normal lives to fight the supernatural forces guiding events in the 13 Colonies.
For long-term GURPS or D&D players, the rule system may seem uncomfortably different at first. Each character has five stats – Might (strength), Nimble (agility), Reason (intelligence), Resolution (willpower), and Vigor (health). You also have stats which can change throughout the game, and they’re pretty self-explanatory – Vitality (your health, lose it and you die), Sanity, and Faith. Most decisions are made with two 12-sided dice.
The biggest complaint I’ve heard about the original Colonial Gothic is that it just wasn’t quite enough, in any respect. The Revised edition has really fleshed the game out, hopefully making it much, much more playable. I, for one, can’t wait to sink my teeth into this game.
Check out the main Colonial Gothic site here.
2 Responses to “Rogue Games releases Colonial Gothic revised!”
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