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What's the deal with Incense and Iron Roleplaying?

Started by ForgottenF, September 10, 2024, 10:58:14 PM

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ForgottenF

September 10, 2024, 10:58:14 PM
(Feel free to read that subject in Jerry Seinfeld's voice)

Ok, so a while back someone here recommended me a game called Syma, a game which bills itself as "Incense & Iron Dungeoncrawling", inspired by the style of fantasy you get in Berserk, Dark Souls, etc. It looked interesting, but I never got around to buying it because it uses a system from the "Breathless" RPG, which just didn't sound good to me.

Today I was in a Half-Priced Books, and saw what I thought was that. It was only $7, so I thought "what the hell, I'll pick it up and have a look." Imagine my surprise then, when I read it and found out it was a different game. I bought a copy of "Sacrifice: Incense and Iron Roleplaying". I'd forgotten the name and just remembered the tagline. I'm not annoyed by my purchase. Sacrifice actually looks like being quite a good game. I'll post a review here once I finish reading it.

But I am confused. Related games? Different editions of the same game? Apparently not. Different authors, different publishers; even different underlying systems (Sacrifice is OSR). Just wondering if there's a story here I don't know about. Is someone copying someone else's homework? Was there a copyright dispute? Is "incense and iron" some kind of weird niche genre label I was unaware of? Very curious.

yosemitemike

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September 10, 2024, 11:19:19 PM
There's this.  I have no idea if it has anything to do with anything beyond the phrase incense and iron.
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Thornhammer

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September 14, 2024, 10:25:30 AM
This version of Sacrifice is also supposed to be inspired by Berserk.

Haven't looked at Sacrifice but I have played a couple of other games the same guy wrote - Ker Nethalas is pretty good and Across a Thousand Dead Worlds is really cool.

Under Ashen Skies has my interest too - survival horror solo RPG inspired by Hellraiser and Silent Hill and Junji Ito.
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