http://thewitcher.com/news/view/1086

Very cool. I love the Interlock System, curious if they will be porting it into the tabletop RPG as well...

Oh please please please, if you have to use this old and dusty rulesset at all, use the Hero version of Fuzion (3d6) instead of the Interlock version (1d10).

I very much want a Witcher RPG, but why do all the interesting licenses always go to such ... weird publishers?! :-/

Quote from: Anglachel;845134Oh please please please, if you have to use this old and dusty rulesset at all, use the Hero version of Fuzion (3d6) instead of the Interlock version (1d10).

I very much want a Witcher RPG, but why do all the interesting licenses always go to such ... weird publishers?! :-/

The publisher choice isn't that strange or unexpected.

I am assuming R. Talsorian are using their connections with the Witcher video game developer, CD Project Red, which also is developing the Cyberpunk video game.

I am more shocked by R. Talsorian's attempt to rise from the ashes with a new product.

The post I read said it was to be the Fuzion system.

Fuck it, is RTG still even a thing?

And if so, where the fuck is Castle Falkenstein? :mad:

Quote from: The Butcher;845147Fuck it, is RTG still even a thing?

And if so, where the fuck is Castle Falkenstein? :mad:

Dude, where the fuck is <$_ROLE_PLAYING_GAME> from them?  No new Cyberpunk game in god knows how long, no new Mekton, no ... grr!  

DAMMIT MIKE PONDSMITH LET US LOVE YOU!

Quote from: The Butcher;845147Fuck it, is RTG still even a thing?

And if so, where the fuck is Castle Falkenstein? :mad:

Available in PDF and POD from DriveThruRPG.

The thing I keep wondering is that there are all these spin-offs like the Witcher Comics being licensed from CDPR to Dark Horse Comics, and now this RPG...

But The Witcher series is based and licensed from the books written by Andrzej Sapkowski, and there was an RPG released in the past directly from the books--so why are these new projects licensed from CDPR instead of directly from the author?  Usually you don't sub-license a license like that.  Or am I missing something?

It's kind of funny though, because at least the short stories are pretty clearly based on D&D

I will say this - there is more than just the Witcher III RPG in the works. (but don't expect them anytime too soon)

Meanwhile Mekton Zero is in editing hell....

It's going to be Fuzion. That should tell you all you need to know as to how well this will do. There will be a hype-and-dumb based spike of sales on release, and then it's going to rot on shelves and lie unused on hard drives because the audience will realize that they can just use fucking D&D.

Quote from: JeremyR;845169It's kind of funny though, because at least the short stories are pretty clearly based on D&D

Yeah.  There's some stuff that's clearly from D&D.  Doppler is just short for Doppleganger, but even more blatant is Dracolisk which I think didn't exist until Gygax coined the term, and the Dragon Villentretenmerth is sort of a Gold Dragon / Bahamut combination.  Supposedly Sapkowski actually released a Tabletop RPG in Poland (The Eye of Yrrhedes) if Wikipedia is correct.  So I'm sure at some point he played D&D.   It's also reported that Moorcock got a little annoyed when he first heard about Geralt being called "The White Wolf" (http://www.multiverse.org/fora/showthread.php?t=10894#4)

I've heard that the books are good takes on Slavic myth and have some good puns and inside jokes as well as the character being sort of a Raymond Chandler type protagonist in a fantasy world--but that doesn't appear to translate well from Polish to English.  

While I've enjoyed both the short stories and the games, there's a lot of the fans of the games who tend to think this is the most original setting ever, and that's a little annoying--if anything, his work is a bit more derivative while I think Elder Scrolls and Dragon Age have done more to differentiate themselves from standard D&D trappings that the Witcher Games.

This is great and all, but now that Witcher 3 is out, Projekt Red can work on the REAL project. Best videogame trailer ever!

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D'oh! Thanks for the heads-up!

Quote from: Bradford C. Walker;845176It's going to be Fuzion. That should tell you all you need to know as to how well this will do. There will be a hype-and-dumb based spike of sales on release, and then it's going to rot on shelves and lie unused on hard drives because the audience will realize that they can just use fucking D&D.

My feelings, sort of.

If there's good setting info it might sell as an unofficial setting bible. But system-wise? Meh. I'd use a dozen systems before Fuzion (personally I'd go with D&D 5e or Savage Worlds. Maybe RQ6) but that's me.