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Fallen London Tabletop RPG?
Would you be interested in something like this?
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Professor Arkham
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2/22/2016
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I've seen interest in such a thing pop up occasionally, along with one or two cryptic messages. Which leads me to having to ask the following question.
Taking into account the setting and lore provided by the game, would an official release of a Fallen-London tabletop RPG (something akin to Call of Cthulhu for example) not be something worth looking into/forward to?
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Parelle
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2/25/2016
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You sent me on a chase! But here is a bit on the project (from 2011!)
Http://story-games.com/forums/discussion/comment/352069/
And a whole lot more importantly:
Http://apocalypse-world.com/forums/index.php?board=13.0
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pages from a dusty bookshop: a badly updated FL changelog | Useful Guidance and Explanations
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Professor Arkham
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2/25/2016
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Parelle wrote:
You sent me on a chase! But here is a bit on the project (from 2011!)
Http://story-games.com/forums/discussion/comment/352069/
And a whole lot more importantly:
Http://apocalypse-world.com/forums/index.php?board=13.0
I did some research on the Knife and Candle game before making this thread (I like to do at least some of my homework before starting a discussion) and found the apocalypse world forum section. I did, however, manage to miss the story-games thread completely. You have my thanks for posting it here.
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Mahonagy
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3/16/2016
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I'd totally buy the player's guide just to read, not even to play. Count me as a "yes".
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Mahonagy, the Snide Socialite
Elegant and sharp-witted, but touchy about her name.
(It was a very late night when she was born, and her mother was very drunk [to help relieve the pain, you see, nothing improper!] and had the brilliant idea of naming her darling daughter after a table...
She misspelled it, to boot.)
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Wormwood
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2/25/2016
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Emain Ablach wrote:
I wonder why the official project got cancelled. I know of some tabletop rpg being crowfounded on kickstarter and working perfectly fine. I can't see where the problem lies.
The official project, Knife & Candle, wasn't just "let's release a RPG book with the Echo Bazaar setting." It was a co-production with Vincent Baker and Elizabeth Shoemaker Sampat, who're something of auteurs as RPG designers go -- they make storygames, which are unique, focused games of a very distinctive style, brief artworks with minimal mechanics around the service of a specific theme. Very late into the development of Knife & Candle, VB discovered some critical flaw in it, spent a long time "circling around and around the same dead hole in design", and ended up scrapping the project when he was unable to resolve it.
So Failbetter could start developing another Fallen London RPG, but back when K&C was announced, EB was HUGE in the storygame community, and they had one of the most critically-acclaimed creators in the genre attached. Nowadays things are a bit different.
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