Modiphius Entertainment - Newsletter

Some new releases from Modiphius and more Fallout: Wasteland Warfare news...
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SHOP IN OUR STORE REMEMBER: Deadline for pre-orders for guaranteed shipping at launch is March 1st. Orders received after that will be prioritised in date order. Check out Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics a turn based style video game for our WW2 Mythos horror universe below! Development Blog Update - Settlements! Hello, We've all been waiting on more information on the narrative systems and I asked designer James Sheehan to give us the first of several overviews before we go in to more detail about it. You can read the next development blog about the Settlement system now! READ THE SETTLEMENT UPDATE! We had some 3d prints of the Super Mutant Behemoth in to check - there's more pictures in the update! We use in game images as well as Bethesda's actual model to sculpt the miniatures - read more about it in the update PRE-ORDER FALLOUT: WASTELAND WARFARE John Carter of Mars Tabletop RPG Kickstarter Over the last month we have been funding the John Carter of Mars roleplaying game and miniatures range over on Kickstarter. Based on the writings of Edgar Rice Burroughs, this uses a stripped down more narrative version of our 2d20 RPG system. JOIN THE KICKSTARTER We have £300/ $400 worth of beautiful highly detailed resin miniatures covering the heroes of Helium, villain of Zodanga, Thark Warband and Beasts of Barsoom. The miniatures rules will let you play fun battles using battlefield terrain, or our planned tile sets.These are the same high quality and scale as the Fallout: Wasteland Warfare minis. We've also unlocked 5 books include the core rulebook, Swords of Mars campaign (including miniatures rules), and three era based supplements packed with setting info, locations, NPC's, the plots of the books, custom dice, a beautiful hand crafted leather bound Barsoom Edition of the core book, Leather notebook and dice bag, Prince of Helium notebook journal and there's much more to come. The Swords of Mars miniatures collection is now worth almost £300 with several more creatures and characters unlocked since this graphic was made! It includes all the unlocked books in PDF. Achtung! Cthulhu comes to PC! The allied powers of tabletop star Modiphius, indie publisher extraordinaire Ripstone and veteran strategy game developer Auroch Digital have announced they are marshalling their collective forces to will bring the award-winningAchtung! Cthulhu tabletop series to PC, in their new video game: Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics - The Forest of Fear. The PC game is out later this year but you can help the developer unlock new content onKickstarter and grab some cool minis, books or PDF's at the same time! Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics - The Forest of Fear is a World War II themed strategic role-playing game in which the Nazis have turned to other-worldly beings to bolster their war effort. In this universe, the Nazi’s well-known obsession with the occult has yielded results, with their discovery that the creatures of the Cthulhu Mythos are real. Thus begins ‘The Secret War’ where covert allied operators fight desperate battles against an unholy alliance of Nazi science and Mythos sorcery. Featuring Shoggoth-powered Panzers, HMG-armed investigators, mutated Nazi super soldiers, secret bunkers filled with mysterious research and alien artefact-powered wonder weapons - Achtung! Cthulhu Tactics - The Forest of Fear has it all! JOIN THE KICKSTARTER NOW! GAMES • SHOP • FORUM • CONTACT • ABOUT Contact Us +44 207 736 7020 (Mon-Fri 10am-6pm) 39 Harwood Road, London. SW6 4QP

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Modiphius Entertainment - Newsletter

More on Fallout: Wasteland Warfare and the John Carter of Mars Kickstarter...
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BACK OF THE BOX & RELEASE UPDATE  PLUS JOHN CARTER OF MARS MINIATURES I can almost feel the heat of the irradiated wasteland! We've had approval from Bethesda to show off the back of the Two Player PVC starter box for Fallout Wasteland Warfare which should give you an idea of what's coming your way! As you can see we can also reveal that in the PVC set the figures are pre-assembled in a coloured plastic ready to play out of the box (the resin version is unassembled). Since we're giving you a complete rulebook, there's now a simple 8 page 'Getting Acclimated' tutorial booklet to get you up to speed without having to absorb everything. Remember we're taking pre-orders online, or head in to your local gaming store. Next week we aim to have a retail locator set up to help you find local stores who are participating in the pre-order. We'll be sharing images of the PVC test production once it's approved.  PRODUCTION & LAUNCH UPDATE The core book and all the base game cards are all in approvals with Bethesda (they've signed off all the design and imagery already). Meanwhile we're getting them the campaign book and tutorial this week for sign off and then have the final cards for the rest of wave 1 to complete and approve. We're also well in to production of the three main core sets in resin as we know there's huge demand for those.  We've had to allow more time for Bethesda to approve the extensive content and with Chinese New Year fast approaching (the factory shuts down for the whole of February) we decided to move the release to May. This does mean you have longer to place your online pre-order with us to guarantee shipment at launch - till the end of Feb. Orders after that may will ship a little later depending on demand.  As soon as the rules are approved we'll be sharing them in PDF along with the unit cards and weapons needed to play the basic battles. I know many of you are waiting on info about the narrative side of the game - both settlements and campaign mode, as well as the solo/co-op mode. As soon as the team have completed the submissions we'll be back on doing videos and play throughs and solo and settlement is first on the list. Expect those to start up in another week along with more painted previews. If you haven't got your order in head over to our online pre-order JOHN CARTER OF MARS MINIATURES In the meantime we've launched a project on Kickstarter which also involves 32mm scale miniatures - John Carter of Mars! We've been working on this for a couple of years now and has been a labour of love to recreate those awesome characters.  As well as a beautiful landscape roleplaying game book we've been funding a line of 32mm scale miniatures with resin bases (something we like as standard with all our lines). Starting with the obvious heroes John Carter, Dejah Thoris, Tars Tarkas the giant Thark warrior and faithful Woola we've since expanded it to include Sab Than and his Zodangan navy crew, more Heroes of Helium, a mighty Thark Warband and we'll soon unlock a simple miniatures rules set for playing battles on the skyships or across the ruins of Barsoom. You'll even be able to play ship to ship battles with our deck plans which double as the ships themselves so you can circle each other on the tabletop, engaging with batteries before jumping aboard for a desperate boarding action! Here's a quick scale guide and some examples of the sets below - as you can see the mighty green Tharks tower over the humans at around 70mm! Check out individual sculpts here.  If you like the look of these you can grab the Heroes of Barsoom set for just £25 which includes the PDF of the RPG core book then add on the sets you like. Alternatively there's the whole Swords of Mars Miniatures Collection which includes every miniature set unlocked in the Kickstarter for £150 - with more sets like the Helium Fighting Crew and Beasts of Barsoom still to come.  If you know someone who might be a John Carter fan please share with this them, the Kickstarter page is at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/modiphius/john-carter-of-mars-the-roleplaying-game/description Thanks for listening and we'll be back in touch soon with solo and settlement updates, plus new pictures of pro-paints to show off Chris, Modiphius   Modiphius Entertainment Modiphius Entertainment is a UK-based publisher of games, novels and adventure from classic titles like Achtung! Cthulhu and Mutant Chronicles, to new roleplaying games like Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of and Star Trek Adventure. For more information please visit Modiphius.com and you can catch the very latest news on Modiphius' Facebook page and Twitter feed.

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CONAN 2d20 CONVERSION FOR JOHN CARTER OF MARS   Hi there as you know we loved working with the Robert E Howard estate to create a truly authentic roleplaying game experience based on his Conan stories. We've followed that by working with the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate on an officially licensed roleplaying game based on the John Carter of Mars novels. The John Carter of Mars roleplaying game has been another passion of mine and a long time coming. I delayed the launch so that the core book was completely written and approved by the estate so we could turn it around much quicker. We've finally launched on Kickstarter and already surpassed £100,000 in just 5 days.  To celebrate this we've decided to create a conversion guide for Conan 2d20! The roleplaying game for John Carter of Mars was designed in 2016 as a streamlined version of 2d20 but following on with the success of Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of, many people requested that the two systems be made as interconnected as possible. Some wanted their Conan characters to seek out adventure on Barsoom with the more narrative mechanics, others wanted a more traditional array of attributes, skills and talents for heroes on Barsoom, and still others wanted a crunchier game system where characters felt more at risk than they do using the combat rules from John Carter. The plan is to create a downloadable conversion guide free to anyone who has pledged for the £15 John Carter of Mars Core Book PDF Pledge or higher. If you like the idea of adventuring on Barsoom using your Conan 2d20 system then head over to the Kickstarter page and select at least the £15 pledge or higher (which gets you the core book in PDF). There's also plenty of other great Pledges such as the Starter Set, PDF Collection, or John Carter Dotar Sojat! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/modiphius/john-carter-of-mars-the-roleplaying-game/ The Conversion guide will feature full rules for converting characters and creatures from Barsoom to the Conan version of 2d20. All the Martian races will be fully convertable to Conan rules. The Bestiary and Arsenal of Barsoom will be fully converted to Conan standards, along with common weapons of the 1890's and there will be rules for humans visiting Barsoom from the Hyborian age. Here is an example of how Martian firearms would work using the Conan version of 2d20: Martian Firearms are the product of millennia of development and refinement that predates the evolution of many Martian races. Minimal training is needed to become proficient in their use and after having seen one fired, any character with the Ranged Weapons skill can use one. Working out how to use a Martian Firearm through trial and error requires either a Daunting (D3) Lore, Challenging (D2) Alchemy or Sorcery test. Pistol: Range (Medium), 5[cd], Size 1H, Radium bullets  Rifle: Range (Long), 5[cd], Size 1H, Radium bullets  Radium bullets special rule. Radium bullets gain the Intense and Vicious 2 special rules during daylight whereas at night the bullets are simply Vicious 1. A character firing Radium bullets in daylight can spend 2 Doom to trade the Intense quality for the Area quality. We have already unlocked a lot of beautiful 32mm scale multi-part resin miniatures of the heroes and villains of Barsoom. Later we plan to add sets of geomorphic tiles that will match the same design as the Conan tile sets. These will cover the sprawling ruins, ancient palaces and airships of Barsoom. There will even be a set of rules for fighting games between the Helium and Zodangan airships (represented by different size tiles) with crews leaping across in boarding actions or fighting amongst the ruins below. Check out the Stretch Goals, and the various PDF, dice and miniatures we've unlocked below:   You can download a sample chapter here, along with the character sheet.  Please share this with friends and come and join us on Kickstarter. Remember you can just pledge £1 to get the Updates and decide later.  Chris, Modiphius   Trademarks John Carter of Mars®, Dejah Thoris®, Tars Tarkas®, Woola™, Barsoom®, Warlord of Mars®, Gods of Mars®, A Princess of Mars™, and Edgar Rice Burroughs® Owned by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. And Used by Permission. All characters and creatures trademarked and owned by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. Copyright © 2018 Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. All Rights Reserved. ABOUT EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS, INC. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. was founded in 1923 by the author Edgar Rice Burroughs to manage the rights to his literary works. He is renowned for his many novels of fantastic adventure. His best-known creations are the jungle hero, Tarzan of the Apes and Sci-Fi hero John Carter of Mars, both first published in 1912. The company has overseen every adaptation of his literary works in publishing, film, television, theatrical stage productions, licensing and merchandising. The company continues to be owned by the Burroughs' family and remains based in Tarzana, California, the city named in honor of Burroughs and his famous storybook character. ABOUT MODIPHIUS ENTERTAINMENT Modiphius Entertainment is a UK-based publisher of games, novels and adventure from classic titles like Achtung! Cthulhu and Mutant Chronicles, to new roleplaying games like Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of and Star Trek Adventure. For more information please visit Modiphius.com and you can catch the very latest news on Modiphius' Facebook page and Twitter feed.

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