Sins of the Adventurers aka Cripple Fetish Game No. 1384 appears to be vaporware
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Don't be fooled by the Street Shark.
Could be a scam. Could be sheer incompetence or laziness. Though judging by how he apparently needed less than $2k (which sounds a bit low considering all the art, book printing & shipping), I suspect he might've tried and failed at gaming the Kickstarter system.
You see, many Kickstarter projects use a funding goal that actually below what they actually need. There are multiple reason for this which ideally all result in getting more cash from idiots:
- Your lower (fake) goal is obviously easier to achieve
- Kickstarter actively promotes projects that have achieved their goal (since successful projects is where they get their money from)
- You get to brag about how fast your project was funded, and/or how much your over your initial goal. Many projects (not this one, strangely enough) even slap badges onto their main project image to commemorate these achievements.
- Many potential backers don't like wasting time backing shit that might not reach its goal, so instead they focus on shit that has already funded and ideally has reached its first couple milestones
So with that shit out of the way, what is the actual game - or at least its premise - like?
>community copies
Hey look, the only good feature on itch.io. The general idea is to offer a certain amount of free copies on a first-come-first-serve basis. This is generally done so you can brag about how your offering free copies of your lesbian troon wheelchair RPG for marginalized and/or poor people.
Unfortunately this system is based entirely on the honor system, so instead you get assholes like me who snatch this shit up for the lulz.
>A level-less tabletop RPG
Oh boy. You know the writer has never really touched anything outside of D&D if he thinks "level-less" is the first innovative thing about your product.
>A level-less tabletop RPG about accomplishing dreams, accepting responsibility, and earning redemption.
That's oddly high concept for a Cripple Fetish RPG.
Basically this is set in some kind of high fantasy utopia after what one might call "The Era of Dungeon-Crawls". Adventurers (aka the PCs) are know considered "problematic" because magic is dangerous af and monsters have been the real victims all along.
I guess the idea is to still be discrimminated and marginalized, but not for the triggering reasons like gender and race? Very odd.
I think you're projectingThe safe spaces we created became havens but soon became fortresses, and later, cages. With nowhere else to go, we decorate the bars.
Let's ditch this lore nonsense and get to the real heart of the game: cripplepunk!
Aka all the art will show a cripple and/or some non-white (monstrous) humanoid freak. Great.Active representation means showcasing the wide range of possibilities that put marginalized groups at the forefront.
Of course you're not required to be a cripple, but I have a feeling at least 80% of your character customization options are cripple-related.
>showcase iterations of relatable experiences in the gameSOTA is ensuring that people with conditions or disabilities can immediately showcase iterations of relatable experiences in the game without having to settle or do extra work by homebrewing.
Dafuq does that even mean?
And why would I worry about having to homebrew crippleshit in a RPG designed to be all about crippleshit?
Isn't going "... and this god is sitting in a wheelchair" very prop-y?Purposeful inclusion means that characters with underlying conditions or disabilities are NOT used as props. You will encounter deities with disabilities
And you think cripple gods is breaking new ground? Just off the top of my hat I can think of...
- Odin (visually impaired due to having lost an eye)
- Hephaistos and many other gods of smithing (traditionally described/portrayed as being at least somewhat mangled/deformed, to honor the fact that playing around with molten metal is not the safest of occupations)
- Osiris (a literal eunuch after that one time he got chopped up into pieces, though I bet the people of Current Year would interpret him as the first post-op troon)
- A shitload of Hindu gods (their various, often conflicting aspects are basically "headmates", as the young kids would say)
And here's where we hit the peak cringe: Using convoluted magic solutions to make disabilities irrelevant without just straight-up fixing the disability with fucking magic.There are no penalties for playing characters with disabilities. A magical world has even more resources than our real world so there is no reason not to showcase a wide array of people living life as they normally would or want to.
That's... pretty weaksauce in terms of cripple privilege. The only time smell ever comes up in a fantasy RPG is when the GM is describing how much the dungeon/sewer reeks.Anosmia - When a person cannot detect odor at all.
So, what's the "solution" here?
Or you could just hope that at least one yokel in the rest of your party can actually smell shit. Whatever floats your boat.Model 1 Canary Callers- Earrings that are fashioned to look like miniature birdcages with bird-like drones inside. These earrings have certain smells preprogrammed and will notify the user with a chime once those smells have been detected.
Oh boy, I wonder how they're gonna pull off the "no penalties for being a cripple" gimmick here.Blindness - The property of being unable to see anything, sometimes including light.
I guess a pair of magical glasses that just let you see through fucking magic would be too "unrealistic".Model 1 White Cane - A white cane with a horizontal slot near the handle that interprets what the tip of the cane is touching and creates a self-moving Braille description across the handle. This item is imbued with permanent Divination magic and can catalog past substances it has identified. Many users carry their white cane to auctions or other places of fast-paced business to discern whether something being sold is a fake.
You might be wondering why they didn't go for a general "Limb Loss" condition here. You see, these cripple fetish need the "But what if I was born without an armCongenital Limb Loss - A condition at birth where the upper or lower limb does not form.
?" card as a gotcha to people asking "Why don't you get a new arm from the nearest Cleric?".The solution is of course a prosthetic. A solar-powered one no less. Or you just pick up a hook hand, except instead of a hook it can have just about any weapon you want.
Woe is me, for I am... lactose intolerant?Gastrointestinal Diseases - Any condition that affects the digestive system. Symptoms include but are not limited to nausea, vomiting, and pain in the abdomen.
I don't think fantasy food is industrialized enough to have traces of all sorts of shit.Model 1 Inflammation Helper - An Inflammation helper is a mechanical device with the ability to locate specific roots, spices, antivenoms, and other important potion ingredients once they have been loaded into its magical database. This model is shaped like a miniature truffle pig that can be comfortably tucked into a small pocket or worn as a necklace.
Ah, the golden goose of cripple fetish RPGs. You want a combat wheelchair?! We have all sorts of them! Whether it's moving through wheels, tracks or a fucking Gelatinous Cube, we've got you covered!Paraplegia - Paralysis of the legs and lower body. People with paraplegia may not be able to voluntarily move their legs or abdomen, and in some cases, incomplete paraplegia affects only one leg.
Don't penalize meeeeeeeeeee~The only downside to this model [the slimechair] is that they are not particularly fast
