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Ninefox Gambit RPG cover reveal + pre/orders! PLUS A BONUS IMAGE
Ninefox Gambit RPG cover reveal (Locus Magazine) - art by MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
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yhlee (see below for bonus image):
Due out in October 2023.
- Preorder the ebook (Android Press, epub). (Note fromyhlee: the page says "Buy now," but I am informed this is in fact a preorder.)
- Preorder the print version (Android Press).
OK now for the BONUS IMAGE. Go look at the version on the Locus website first, please.
Story here: my first concept, since the game was less an action-adventure thing and more a cerebral RPG, and because I felt the six* playable factions ought to each be represented on the cover, was to have the characters sitting around a table debating The Plan (whatever The Plan was for that particular scenario). That really didn't work out, although it was fun working out the poses and expressions for each of the faction members, and whenyhlee and I decided to go for a different approach for the full illustration, as a surprise for yhlee I added a few appropriate props to the table...
* Liozh erasure, yes, but they're included in the index if you really want to play one.
This is a base render with all the props added, and no fixing or overpainting or anything like that. :)
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yhlee (see below for bonus image):NINEFOX GAMBIT RPG is a tabletop roleplaying game of heresy and hard choices set in the tyrannical interstellar empire known as the Hexarchate.
YOU belong to one of the Hexarchate’s six factions. YOU are entangled with a regime that can change the very laws of physics—at the cost of human sacrifice.
Will you…
- CONFRONT your leaders, at the risk of being labeled a heretic and hunted down?
- CHANGE the system from within, despite the chance that you’ll be crushed by it instead?
- COLLABORATE to preserve what you can, at the cost of your principles?
Assimilation is a fate worse than death.
Designed by Yoon Ha Lee and based on his Hugo-nominated Machineries of Empire space opera series. Included are three starter scenarios by Marie Brennan, author of The Memoirs of Lady Trent and, with Alyc C. Helms as M. A. Carrick, the Rook and Rose epic fantasy trilogy.
Due out in October 2023.
- Preorder the ebook (Android Press, epub). (Note from
yhlee: the page says "Buy now," but I am informed this is in fact a preorder.)- Preorder the print version (Android Press).
OK now for the BONUS IMAGE. Go look at the version on the Locus website first, please.
Story here: my first concept, since the game was less an action-adventure thing and more a cerebral RPG, and because I felt the six* playable factions ought to each be represented on the cover, was to have the characters sitting around a table debating The Plan (whatever The Plan was for that particular scenario). That really didn't work out, although it was fun working out the poses and expressions for each of the faction members, and when
yhlee and I decided to go for a different approach for the full illustration, as a surprise for yhlee I added a few appropriate props to the table...* Liozh erasure, yes, but they're included in the index if you really want to play one.
This is a base render with all the props added, and no fixing or overpainting or anything like that. :)