Hey, I made a game and now I'm doing a KS to fund more artwork.
The supernatural creatures supplement and custom map already got funded, so the next stretch goals up are alternative settings.
The default setting is Rio de Janeiro in 1889 and you play gang members, cafe owners and stuff like that. Think Gangs of New York but with more capoeira.

This is a video showing you the book as it is at the moment:
https://youtu.be/w-OboHF2YEg


    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1690011586/malandros-tales-from-the-streets-of-old-rio


    Here's the blurb:

QuoteRio de Janeiro at the end of the 19th century: a city of slums and palaces, street gangs and tycoons, magic charms and outlawed martial arts. Cunning, bohemian and streetwise, the malandro walks its streets without fear - because there's always a way out.

    Malandros is a tabletop roleplaying game based on the award-winning DramaSystem rules engine. It's a game of personal struggles and interpersonal dramas.

    You play characters in a tight-knit community caught up in tumultuous times: gang leaders, captains of industry, fishermen, martial artists, swindlers and more. You all know each other - you're family, friends, rivals or enemies, all living in the same part of town. You all want something from each other. Maybe it's respect, maybe it's love. Maybe it's fear, or something else.

    Will you get what you want? That's what we're here to find out.

And here are some images from the book:







The KS has passed its first two stretch goals.
So that means these are funded in addition to the main book --

Quote£200: EPUB and MOBI versions + Supernatural Creatures
More ebook formats and a PDF mini-supplement based on Brazilian myths and legends, in case you want to add a soupcon of the strange to your game. The creatures will be illustrated by Claytonian, OSR artist and creator of The Wizardarium of Calibraxis.
This is the point where I can start to license photos from the Pierre Verger Foundation.

£500: São Roque + Rio map
Adds a bonus PDF setting pack including pre-generated player characters and a write-up of the (fictional) São Roque district, its denizens, and related story seeds. The rulebook gets a custom-made map of 1889 Rio by Josephe Vandel.

Here's one of Claytonian's sketches for the supernatural book. It's the mula sem cabeca or Headless Mule:


Yes, that is fire coming out of its neck.


And these are the next stretch goals in line:

Quote£750: The Sydney Razor Gang Wars
An alternate setting PDF for the game - Australia's biggest city in the 1920s & 30s, when the rivalry between two crime queens led to blood in the streets. Art upgrades to the rulebook start here.

£1000: Aluminium Wars, an alternate setting PDF by Mark Galeotti
In 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed, and everything was up for grabs. In the industrial city of Krasnoyarsk, while the big beasts of the new gangster-businessman world fight it out for control of the local aluminium industry, corrupt cops, ambitious politicians, hustlers, thugs, and even a few idealists struggle to thrive and survive in a new Russia without rules, rhyme or reason.

Mark Galeotti is the author of the Mythic Russia RPG, Eurosource for Cyberpunk 2020 and contributor to numerous other RPG books, particularly about the world of Glorantha. He is an expert on Russian security affairs and organised crime, and teaches at New York University, where he is Clinical Professor of Global Affairs at the Center for Global Affairs. He blogs at In Moscow's Shadows.

Huh.

Is this getting promoted over Portuguese-language sites? I'm Brazilian (carioca, actually) and didn't know about it.

Not a fan of Drama (System or otherwise ) but I might pick it up for the setting material. Your bibliography looks spot on.

PS. Link not working. Had to look it up on KS search.

Thanks, fixed the link.

It's under discussion a bit on lusophone Facebook but I don't know that this is a game Brazilian RPGers particularly need.
If I ever made a Portuguese edition I'd need to revamp the setting material completely.

Quote from: Caudex;862482Thanks, fixed the link.

It's under discussion a bit on lusophone Facebook but I don't know that this is a game Brazilian RPGers particularly need.

No one "needs" any given roleplaying game, ever. It's about wanting a game. And who knows what people want? Posted the link in a Portuguese-speaking Facebook group, hope you don't mind.

Quote from: Caudex;862482If I ever made a Portuguese edition I'd need to revamp the setting material completely.

Why's that?

Quote from: The Butcher;862525No one "needs" any given roleplaying game, ever. It's about wanting a game. And who knows what people want? Posted the link in a Portuguese-speaking Facebook group, hope you don't mind.

Yeah, as soon as I posted that I thought "does anyone need any game?" But hey, quod scripsi scripsi.
Thanks for posting the link; I don't mind at all!

QuoteWhy's that?

A lot of it is stuff that Brazilians already know. Like, really basic stuff, defining terms, etc. They don't need me explaining the Golden Law to them, for example.
So while I'd likely keep the same format in terms of what each section's subject would be, the content could be a lot more tightly focused on the game's place and time.

And "capoeira/capoeirista" would definitely become "capoeiragem/capoeira".

Backed. I hope it gets up to the next pledge level soon, I quite fancy some between-the-wars Australian shenanigans.

Good news! That Sydney Razor Gang Wars supplement you wanted has funded.

Next up is 1990s Russia by Mark Galeotti, then Paula Dempsey's Victorian London setting.

The Malandros Kickstarter just entered its final week.

Here's an interview about the game with some background on the game's development: http://rpgknights.com/malandros-kickstarter/

And this is how the stretch goals stand right now.

Already funded:
- EPUB and MOBI versions + Supernatural Creatures supplement
- São Roque setting pack + Rio map art upgrade
- The Sydney Razor Gang Wars - alternate setting PDF

Less than forty quid away:
- Aluminium Wars, a 1990s Russia setting by Mark Galeotti

After that:
- Victorian London setting by Paula Dempsey
- Other Borders, modern-day sorcery setting by Tod Foley
- Gangs of Titan, science fiction setting by Stras Acimovic
- Kingsport Shore, Lovecraft/Twin Peaks style weirdness by Steve Dempsey


https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1690011586/malandros-tales-from-the-streets-of-old-rio

Two days remain. Stretch goal update!


Funded:
£200: EPUB and MOBI versions + Supernatural Creatures
£500: São Roque + Rio map
£750: The Sydney Razor Gang Wars
£1000: Aluminium Wars, an alternate setting PDF by Mark Galeotti
£1200: Victorian London setting by Paula Dempsey
£1400 (approx. US$2130): Other Borders by Tod Foley


NEXT STRETCH GOAL
£1600 (∼US$2435): Gangs of Titan by Stras Acimovic
Alt-setting PDF. "A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies!" It's a new life, all right, and perfect for your old skills. Titan Station is the gateway to the galaxy - the last, best hope for peace. Home to alien ambassadors, human soldiers, spacefarers, spies... and you.


£1889 (∼US$2875): Kingsport Shore by Steve Dempsey
Kingsport, "the city in the mists", is a fishing town and an artists' retreat, a place where the realm of dreams brushes against our world and a terrible secret lurks in the earth below. Play the people of Lovecraft's seaside town - dock workers, fishermen, poets and painters - whose lives are touched by the strangeness and corruption of ancient powers.