#nerdburger games

[madfishmonger]

Running Games at Gencon!

Hey, I'm running some games at Gencon this year for Nerdburger Games! Here they are, if you're going to be there, come check out a game or two!

Capers: Tick Tock: Thursday, August 1/24, 10 am. Waking up from a rowdy party, you discover the boss' heirloom pocket watch has been stolen. Clean yourself up, ramp up your superpowers, and find that watch, or else! In CAPERS, you’re a super-powered gangster in the 1920s.

Staged Heroism: Cosmic Retirement Home for the Superpowered. Friday August 2, 10 am/Saturday August 3, 10 am

The number one rule at the Cosmic Retirement Home for the Superpowered is: "You're retired now. No more adventures!" However, something awfully suspicious is going on with a new experimental medical treatment. Use your lifetime of experience to expose the truth without compromising your future in this luxurious retirement home. Staged Heroism is a comedic game of supers, legacies, and kind of screwing up a lot.

I'll also be helping out at the Nerdburger booth, which will be here:

[haveyouplayedthisttrpg]

Have you played LOW STAKES ?

By Craig Campbell and NerdBurger Games

Heavily inspired by What We Do In The Shadows, Low Stakes is a rules lite TTRPG where players take on the roles of monster roommates living in a house together going about daily life. As monsters, you all have your own powers that could come in handy but also your own personal issues that could get you into trouble. Sessions play out like episodes in a TV show complete with a documentary crew , characters gain confidence in their decisions and clout to sway their fellow roommates. Complete with “offscreen confessionals” where players talk to the film crew recording their house party or roadtrip.

[ttrpgbrackets]

The featured games!

In the interest of being a thoughtful community member, below are links to all of the games featured in our bracket, submitted by followers!

Ascendancy can be found on Ruby Soleil-Raine's itch.io.

Patchwork World can be found on Aaron King's itch.io page. Patfinder can be found on Paizo's online store.

Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Monster of the Week, For the Queen, and Blades in the Dark can be found at Evil Hat's online store.

Pokemon Tabletop Adventures 3rd Edition can be found here.

Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist can be found here.

BXLLET and its expansion SHXLL CASXNGS can be found on Legendary Vermin and Rathayibacter's itch.io pages.

Justicar can be found on Nevyn Holmes' itch.io.

Troika can be found on its website.

Exalted Third Edition can be found on Onyx Path's website.

Glitch can be found on Drivethrurpg.

Lancer can be found on Massif Press's Itch.io.

Monsterhearts and The Quiet Year can be found on Buried Without Ceremony's website.

Wraith: the Oblivion and Mage: The Ascension can be found from White Wolf on drivethrurpg.

Fiasco can be found from Bully Pulpit Games.

Chuubo's Marvelous Wish Granting Engine can be found on drivethrurpg.

Beam Saber can be found on Austin Ramsay's itch.io.

Spire: The City Must Fall and Heart: The City Beneath can be found from Rowan, Rook, and Dekkard

Guardian Mecha Generations is by Chris Longhurst, though a direct link could not be found by this author. Submissions and asks with more information are welcome.

Public Access can be found from The Gauntlet.

Leverage is no longer in print, but was designed by Cam Banks and Rob Donaghue for Margaret Weis Productions

Disparateum can be found on Rathayibacter's itch.io.

World Wide Wrestling is found on Nathan Paoletta's website.

10 million HP Planet can be found on Sandy Pug Games' Itch.io.

Interstitial: Our Hearts Intertwined can be found on Riley Hopkins' itch.io.

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplaying can be found from Cubicle 7 Games

City of Mist can be found from Son of Oak Games

Final Bid can be found on liberigothica's itch.io.

Apocalypse World can be found on its own website, by D. Vincent Baker and Meguey Baker.

Lasers and Feelings by John Harper can be found on its own website.

We Are But Worms can be found on itch.io from Riverhouse Games

Kingdom can be found on Ben Robbins' website.

Kernel can be found on Ava Ayers' cohost.

Ironsworn: Starforged can be found on the Ironsworn website.

Capers can be found on NerdBurger's website.

Fellowship 2nd Edition can be found on liberigothica's itch.io.

Eidolon: Become Your Best Self can be found on the Eidolon Playtest patreon.

Yazeba's Bed and Breakfast can be found on Possum Creek Games

Sentinel Comics: The Roleplaying Game can be found from Greater Than Games

Fathom can be found on Brandon McLeod's itch.io.

Apocalypse Frame can be found from Binary Star Games.

We Used to be Friends can be found on Jonathan Lavalee's website.

I was unable to locate a link to purchase or read Perennial Ultimatum: Bloomward. If you have any information on this game, please feel free to submit a post.

[rpgsandbox]

It’s the 1920s Prohibition Era in the United States. Alcohol is illegal. Organized crime grows at an unprecedented rate as gangsters get rich selling hooch to a thirsty populace. You are one of those gangsters…and you have superpowers!

In the CAPERS tabletop roleplaying game, you portray a character with extraordinary abilities in the Roaring Twenties. As a gangster, you seek to exploit the law and get rich off of alcohol, gambling, prostitution, and racketeering. You join up with other players to collectively seek your fortunes in the vice-riddled, booze-soaked casinos and speakeasies of the Jazz Age.

Alternatively, you and the other players can portray members of law enforcement seeking to bring these criminals to justice.

The setting features some prominent, historical Prohibition Era characters but also a variety of gender-swaps and race-flips to make the game about more than mostly Italian and Irish guys. A slew of unique, fictional NPCs of all types have been created to give every player something to latch onto when perusing the game world.

CAPERS is a game of action, adventure, virtue, and vice in a world coming into its own. It’s a world of theft, fraud, subterfuge, and espionage. Your character will risk their life to find their place in this world, regardless of which side of the law they fall on.

When playing CAPERS, each player (and the GM) uses their own deck of standard, poker-style playing cards (52 suit cards plus 2 jokers) to determine if a character succeeds at difficult tasks.

The pip value of the card you flip (2, 3, and so on, up to ace high) determines success versus failure. The card’s suit determines the DEGREE of success or failure, starting at clubs (the worst) and going alphabetically upward to spades (the best). You’ll be able to flip multiple cards based on your character’s capability. You might flip the king of clubs, certainly a success with a king, but just barely a success with clubs.

Do you settle for barely successful or flip another card, hoping for a better result? Each flip is a gamble, risking failure.

Every backer at the Bootlegger level and higher gets the following. (Refer to individual backer levels for other rewards specific to that level.)

A PDF of the CAPERS game, approximately 150-160 pages in color, including all unlocked stretch goals. Projected book length is dependent upon hitting all stretch goals.

A variety of PDF support materials. See “Support Materials” for more information.

A link to purchase a soft or hardcover book at cost from DriveThruRPG.com later. See “Ordering Physical Books” for more information.

A link to purchase a deck of CAPERS-themed playing cards from DriveThruCards.com later. See “Ordering Cards” for more information.

A PDF of the CAPERS Preview Edition, made available to all backers shortly after the Kickstarter funds. (EDIT: The preview edition is available to backers NOW. Check out Update 7.) This preview edition is bare bones, with just enough information to run the game and is in black and white. It may read a bit differently from the final book. It contains some setting info, the rules, a handful of powers, some pre-generated characters, and an introductory adventure.

A thank-you in the book's credits.

These PDFs are free to all backers at the Bootlegger level and higher. They aren't necessary to play the game, but they can help.

Form-Fillable PDF Character Sheet: Print it and fill it out or type into it on your computer or tablet.

Rules One-Sheet: A handy one-page summary of the rules that you can reference on your tablet or print and make available to everyone at the table.  

GM Screen Sheets: Print them off for reference or slip them into the sleeves of generic GM screens. Portrait and landscape orientations available.  

Pre-Generated Characters: A series of starting characters ready to play. Half are gangsters. Half are members of law enforcement.

Rivals Adventure: An introductory adventure for gangster characters.

One Busy Night Adventure: An adventure for more advanced gangster characters.

Gloves Off Adventure: Yet another adventure for even more advanced gangster characters.

Are there more? Wait and see...

You can learn more about what went into making CAPERS as well as listen to some actual play by clicking the links below.

The One Shot Podcast folks are playing CAPERS this month.

CAPERS interview on Gaming Ballistic.

Brie Sheldon's Thoughty Blog.

I talk to Misdirected Mark about games that don't use dice.

I ran a game for some fine folks at DSPN Presents.

I talked about using real world history in a game with Table Top Babble.

I popped into Nerdarchy three hours into the Kickstarter.

Kickstarter campaign ends: Fri, April 6 2018 2:00 AM BST

Website: NerdBurger Games

[shaneplays]

Good Strong Hands RPG (“A darkly whimsical game about saving your fantastical world”) with indie developer Craig Campbell of NerdBurger Games. RPGs gone virtual. The importance of cons to the RPG industry. How is RPG design like architecture? Sad scenes in geek movies. The butter burger.

[midgardia]

Garmbreak1 did an interview with Craig Campbell from NerdBurger Games, producers of Capers, whose expansion Capers Noir is on Kickstarter right now!

[legendlarkpod]

TUNE IN NOW!!!!!

Hey ya’ll tun into DSPN’s twitch channel NOW to catch our very own beautiful talented and incredible Noel playing Murders & Acquisitions!!

Murders & Acquisitions is an RPG created by game designer Craig Campbell of NerdBurger Games.  It puts you smack dab in the middle of a cut-throat corporation in an absurd, alternate version of our world where literally anything goes in terms of corporate advancement! 

Tune in NOW to catch Noel playing some kind of horrible decrepit secretary who wears the human faces of interns who wrong her on her own human face!

[letechnologeek]

NerdBurger Games a lancé un nouveau Kickstarter pour une copie à couverture rigide de luxe de CAPERS RPG – Newstrotteur

[madfishmonger]

Be Nice to Your Gaming Friends Day

Today is my buddy Craig's birthday so if you've bought one of his games in the past, please go leave a nice review on his page or say something nice about his games. If you haven't bought a game, go have a look and/or go tell your favourite creator, game master, or player something nice in his honour.

[swipestream]

Gnomecast #46 – Gen Con 2018

Join Head Gnome John for a series of short interviews with attendees at Gen Con 2018 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Settle in for a bonus-sized episode!

Download: Gen Con 2018

The interviews in this episode include:

A quick chat with long-time Gen Con attendee Lorraine and also local bartender Jameson, both at the nearby Loughmiller’s Pub.

Another quick chat with game industry veteran Tony Law.

Caleb Stokes of Hebanon Games talks about his ENnie-nominated game, Red Markets.

Dave Chalker of Critical Hits discusses the upcoming Sentinel Comics: the Roleplaying Game. As of the publication of this episode, the full game is not yet released, but the starter kit is available now!

Brennan Taylor of Galileo Games talks about his game Bulldogs!, the recently released supplement for it, People of the Zone, and his upcoming historical samurai game Thousand Arrows.

Rich Howard speaks with John about the upcoming Descent Into Midnight, the underwater adventure RPG that Rich is helping develop.

Brian Engard and Anna Meade of Blue Gables Publishing & Consulting chat with John about the new edition of the game Becoming (coming soon!) as well as the recently released (to Kickstarter backers) dark future Uprising RPG from Evil Hat Productions. Uprising is set to be available to the public next month.

Eloy Lasanta of Third Eye Games catches up with John about what it’s like to be a convention GM for Third Eye and also about his upcoming release of Part-Time Gods Second Edition. Check out the preview available now!

Craig Campbell of Nerdburger Games discusses his Prohibition-era superhero RPG CAPERS, available soon.

James Introcaso of World Builder Blog and the Don’t Split the Podcast Network talks about the new announcement about Burn Bryte, a game he’s helping develop exclusively for Roll20.

Chris Spivey of Darker Hue Studios talks about his multiple ENnie Awards wins for Harlem Unbound as well as the new sci-fi line he’s developing for Chaosium.

Derek Knutsen-Frey and Daniel Knutsen-Frey discuss Palegain Press‘ Universal Storytelling System and its upcoming module, Flower of Heaven: Shrine of the Fallen Heroes. There’s still time to back the Flower of Heaven Kickstarter!

Jacob McEntire of Flying Nightbear Games talks about his upcoming game Beyonder. Kickstarter coming soon; keep an eye on the Beyonder website for news!

Nicole Liberty catches John up on the happenings at the Indie Game Developer Network booth at Gen Con.

Tristan Zimmerman talks about Molten Sulfer Blog, a source of gameable inspiration from real history!

Jacqueline Bryk talks about the importance of safety tools and mechanics and her work on them in Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition.

Keep up with all the gnomes by visiting gnomestew.com, following @gnomestew on Twitter, or visiting the Gnome Stew Facebook Page. Check out Gnome Stew Merch, and support Gnome Stew on Patreon!

Check out John at johnarcadian.com.

Follow Ang at @orikes13 on Twitter or find her in the Misdirected Mark Google+ Community.

Want some bonus bonus content?

Gnome Stew frequent guest author Keith Garrett was at Gencon with his camera and took a bunch of pictures!  Here’s a photo album of some of the sites of Gencon 2018!

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Gnomecast #46 – Gen Con 2018 published first on https://medium.com/@ReloadedPCGames

[madfishmonger]

Heading to Gencon! I'll be running games for Nerdburger and Magpie Game Studios! If you're also there, come say hi and I'll give you a fish sticker 🐠

I will be at the Nerdburger booth occasionally (booth 162) so ask for me there!

[madfishmonger]

Lackadaisy fan? Want to play a TTRPG in the Lackadaisy world? Use Capers!

CAPERS is an award-winning super-powered game of gangsters in the Roaring Twenties. 

In CAPERS, players portray exceptional people – called "capers" by the general populace – who have been gifted with superhuman powers that defy the laws of science. You can play a gangster working to make his fortune in the vice-riddled 1920s. Alternatively, you can portray a member of law enforcement working to bring these criminals to justice.

The game has rules for normal people and Exceptionals, people without superpowers but just a little better than usual. These rules would be perfect for the Lackadaisy world. There's already everything you need for the weapons and vehicles. All you need is the basic book for a game, and if you play online, the Roll20 kit is a fantastic deal and gets you everything you need for a great price and only one person needs the game to play.

[madfishmonger]

The first expansion to an already fantastic game. Pick up the Capers core book at the link below, and support the kickstarter for more RPG greatness. I will be running games of this at Gencon 2019 as well, sign up and join me!

http://www.nerdburgergames.com/capers/

[madfishmonger]

All of my projects

Here’s a list of a bunch of things I’ve written:

https://t.co/zUbglHh8h8?amp=1  My setting-neutral haunted house one-shot you can drop into any game. It’s designed for D&D but you could easily convert it to another system.

https://t.co/Wf5En3YWOw?amp=1 Wisdom Under Fire charity adventure pack full of everything you need to play a wombat what’s not to love?

https://t.co/TUWOqXyezM?amp=1 The Princess Project  - a series of adventures, I wrote a fun scavenger hunt adventure for low-level characters (bonus stuff here)

https://t.co/VzfGD29bV7?amp=1 Vast Kaviya - an entire planet with different types of biomes, adventures, monsters, politics, and even a new class and subclasses! (I wrote the Endless Plains)

https://t.co/5tcWBzzqlY?amp=1 Nerdburger Games - I wrote for all the expansions for Capers (but not the core book), it’s such a fantastic game. There’s also several more great games on the site. Go check it out! (Die Laughing is an excellent party game)

[madfishmonger]

Gen Con Review

So I meant to write this when I got back but between being totally overwhelmed and being incredibly sick I haven’t had a chance. So... traveling to the States wasn’t as nerve-wracking as I thought until I was on my way home but I will get to that. I brought the wrong kind of bag, that was a huge mistake and the bruises on my arms reassured me if I go again I will need a better one.

I ran games in the Indie Games Developer Network room, four games over three days, all by Nerdburger.

My first impression was how huge and crowded it was and that never went away. I can’t even describe to you how big the con is. You literally can’t see everything, there’s too much. I’m glad I didn’t try to plan anything, it would have been thrown off by how huge the place was. My first game was Murders & Acquisitions. If you’re not familiar with the game, the premise is that you “shakers”, not quite peons and not quite upper management, are trying to get ahead in your business. The adventure hook was that the project they had to present at the end of the day had been stolen by a rival team and they had several options to deal with it. There were five people on the other team. They locked two in a bathroom and then set off a gas leak, killing them both. Another they defenestrated, recruited the fourth, and used her to frame the fifth guy for everything, forcing him to retire. In the end, they were able to present their project. As the adventure didn’t require a specific setting to work I let the players make up a company and project. The company was Entertaining Acquisitions (which shortened to EA totally coincidentally swears the player), and their project was a VR casino game for kids. Players: It’s educational! It teaches them about math! Me: Yeah, subtraction.

The pregen characters I had were all based on office characters from media (Lana and Cyril from Archer, etc), one player chose Dwayne from office space and attacked people with a stapler, it was vicious.

Next game was Capers, which is 1920s prohibition with superpowers. I won’t go into detail on the adventure because I’m writing it up, but the players were amazing and got so in to character. I only ended up with 3/5 but I didn’t care, they were so great. I made pregen characters with various powers. Capers powers aren’t given in great detail, giving you the chance to flavour them as you like, and the players had a great time bringing the characters to life far more deeply than I expected. They encouraged me to write up the adventure, so thanks to them I will be doing that.

My second Capers game came had some of the same pregen characters, but they were played very differently. Only two people showed up, so I told the organizers at the front to direct any curious folk my way, and ended up with two amazing players. They pulled off a brilliant heist of a magical Fabergé Egg (and a few non-magical ones), and thanks to the Puppeteer’s ability to speak to objects, made the egg the leader of their gang. The egg was very conceited, but wouldn’t you be if you were that gorgeous?

My Die Laughing game came with a lot of mistakes on the rules on my part, I feel really bad for that, and I plan to do a lot better. I was exhausted and my brain was just mush. Still, the players should have had a better explanation. Anyway it was brilliant what they came up with. Die Laughing is a game where you all play characters in a horror comedy movie. Your character eventually dies and you become a producer able to influence the movie. Tables help you find the theme and scenes and enemies. We ended up with “cute creepy possessed girl” in a grade school as our movie. One of the players picked “paranormal investigator” as his character, so we decided it was a ghost reality show: Spooky Jim’s Paranormal House (”IT’S DOCTOR JAMES, THANK YOU”). All the players were genius and all had their own individual and collective genius ideas. The best part of the game is the weird stories that build up on top of each other, so by the end the fact that the ghosts formed a basketball team and in the post-credits scene were taking on the Toronto Raptors made narrative sense. It went from paranormal reality to a heartwarming sports flick.

[kayawagner]

CAPERS Quick Start Guide

Publisher: NerdBurger Games

CAPERS RPG

A Super-Powered Game of 1920s Gangsters

Quick Start Guide

CAPERS is a superpowered RPG of gangsters in the Roaring Twenties. Players portray gangsters and bootleggers looking to make thieir fortunes in a wolrd of illegal alchohol, gambling, prostitution, and racketeering.

And you have superpowers. But so do the cops and feds.

This quick start of the CAPERS game gives you everything you need to give the game a whirl. Full rules, some setting info, a smattering of powers, an introductory adventure, and some pre-generated characters.

Price: $0.00 CAPERS Quick Start Guide published first on https://supergalaxyrom.tumblr.com