Berlin '61 Submission

[PK Games]

I ask this honestly of all here who have seen or read through the Berlin '61 material I have published. DO you think it is worthwhile to submit Berlin '61 to Chaosium as a setting for CoC or BRP in general?

[Jason Durall]

I haven't read the material and likely won't*, so take this with a grain of salt.

It's always worthwhile to see if you can get paid (again) for your work if it's a BRP or CoC sourcebook or monograph.

If Chaosium doesn't offer to publish it themselves, you might be able to get a BRP license and retain original copyright over the material.

In either case, I encourage you to send Dustin an email at dustin@[name of BRP publisher].com.



* No offense intended here - I just don't have the spare cash for new games I'm not going to play - and I don't have any interest in MRQ-derived materials.

[Trifletraxor]

As it is, it would fit very well as a Cthulhu monograph. I'm not sure I would recommend it though, as its then likely to stop there. (Cthulhu Rising f.ex. have tons of stuff on their website, but only one little monograph published). You're probably better off with GORE.

I would very much like to see it for BRP, but I think the horror part might be too might similar to Cthulhu for them to pick up on it. It's worth a try though. If the cthulhu-like mythos would be switched with "real-world based" mythos, as you suggested earlier, the setting would be a real kicker and perfect for BRP. Then they'd be crazy not to pick it up!

Good luck!

SGL.

[PK Games]

I think I will replace all the Kotothian Mythos-Cthulhu Lite stuff with Emo-Vampires, that should work.

LOL

No seriously, I just love the 1960s eastern bloc setting.

[jarulf]

Emo-vampires -- noooo


Seriously, perhaps if you ripped out the mythos stuff and presented it as a straight spy game a la Le Caré and added some notes about incorporating the CoC Mythos? Maybe superheroes too for those that like 'em.

[PK Games]

Originally Posted by Jason Durall

I haven't read the material and likely won't*, so take this with a grain of salt.

It's always worthwhile to see if you can get paid (again) for your work if it's a BRP or CoC sourcebook or monograph.

If Chaosium doesn't offer to publish it themselves, you might be able to get a BRP license and retain original copyright over the material.

In either case, I encourage you to send Dustin an email at dustin@[name of BRP publisher].com.



* No offense intended here - I just don't have the spare cash for new games I'm not going to play - and I don't have any interest in MRQ-derived materials.

No offense taken, even though the game is liek what, $1 now LOL.

Not interested really in getting paid again or anything, but just would like to try to get it real published as opposed to lulu published.

Thanks for the info.

[Dredj]

I bought the download from Lulu.com. I think I made a post on Friday about what I thought of the product description, or something. It's no longer posted (I swore I hit the submit button) and I'm very thankful for that--as I wrote it under the influence of alcohol.

Anyway, I think it's worth a shot for you to propose it to Chaosium. You obviously did a ton of research for the game and made a high quality product (in my opinion--whatever it's worth). You have a lot of interesting ideas for the game and I thinks it's a neat idea that all the characters live, work, etc. behind the Iron Curtain.

My only concern would be how Chaosium would react to the game system. You're essentially reinventing the wheel using creatures and a system that's extremely reminiscent of CoC. The only thing they would probably be interested in is the setting.

[Jason Durall]

Originally Posted by PK Games

No offense taken, even though the game is liek what, $1 now LOL.

I thought it was much more when you first announced it.

[Triff]

Originally Posted by Dredj

I think I made a post on Friday about what I thought of the product description, or something. It's no longer posted (I swore I hit the submit button) and I'm very thankful for that--as I wrote it under the influence of alcohol.

Nothing's been moderated, so you probably failed your "Click the button" skill.

SGL.

[Newt]

Originally Posted by Trifletraxor

As it is, it would fit very well as a Cthulhu monograph. I'm not sure I would recommend it though, as its then likely to stop there. (Cthulhu Rising f.ex. have tons of stuff on their website, but only one little monograph published).

SGL.

From the Cthulhu Rising website

I am very happy to report that Chaosium are to publish Jovian Nightmares as a MULA Monograph - hopefully later this year. This is marvellous news, and obviously gives added impetus to getting the project completed. Getting it ready to submit to Chaosium has to be my primary focus at the moment. I will be firming up the final content over the coming weeks, but if you want to help discuss ideas, throw cool stuff into the mix, or just want to have a read of what I have so far, the Jovian Nightmares forum is still open.

I intend playtesting several Jovian Nightmares themed adventures at UK conventions this year, and will be including at least one of them in the Monograph.