Tabletop RPG followers on the lookout for a singular sci-fi expertise to kick off their yr ought to give Austin Walker‘s Realis a glance. Due out January 23 on itch.io, Realis is a story-focused sport the place “a algorithm that shapes dialog into an engine for collaborative storytelling.” In different phrases, the sport shifts in scope and scale in keeping with the wants of the story or the whims of its tellers.
Realis is a setting for moon-hopping journey, stuffed with arcane discovery, deadly battle, and meditations on the ever-changing nature of the self, society, and historical past. Admittedly, it’s a heady idea. You’ll inform the story of a Band of protagonists who use malleable Class Sentences, helpful Ephemera, and the uncooked energy of their Goals to discover, love, combat, worship, and unfold their tales throughout the Thousand Moons. Realis is designed to discover how these characters change into more and more particular over the size of a narrative.
Whereas most gamers will take management of a single character, one participant might be devoted to taking part in because the Recreation Grasp–a mix of facilitator, narrative information and a dependable soundboard for concepts.
The model that arrives this Thursday is known as the “Ashcan Version”, which has 20 Playable Courses and 40 NPC Courses (each of that are lower than half of what is going to be out there within the last version), three Grand Factions, two Instance Moons, artwork by Sam Beck and Oddesque, and format by Tyler Crumrine of Attainable Worlds Video games. It has some further design and writing by Associates on the Desk’s Jack de Quidt and Janine Hawkins.
In the event you’re eager on listening to Realis in motion, you possibly can test it out this Thursday on the principle Associates on the Desk feed, that includes a particular intro episode the place Jack and Austin speak via the fundamentals of the sport and present issues off with a one-on-one session. This might be adopted up with the whole first Arc of the marketing campaign releasing over the next month (with Patrons getting eps per week early, as soon as it’s rolling).
