Two new releases for Chaosium’s award-winning Rivers of London Roleplaying Game, based on the popular urban fantasy series by Ben Aaronovich, are out now.
In Rivers of London: the Roleplaying Game game, players take on the roles of newly recruited members of the London Metropolitan Police Service’s special magic branch, aka “the Folly.” You will solve mysteries, catch criminals, and come to grips with the “demi-monde”, those who have been irreversibly changed by magic.
Build your group of freshly-recruited officers of the Folly with character creation, expand and grow those characters with the complete rules for character advancement, and enjoy playing in the magical alternate world created by Ben Aaronovitch…
Rivers of London: the Roleplaying Game (available here in print from AmazonUK, Affiliate Link), is based off the award-winning Basic Roleplaying System used in Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest and many other games.
The game is the work of Paul Fricker, a freelance writer and games designer, who designed and wrote the core rules system for the Rivers of London Roleplaying Game; writer Adam Gauntlett, “a nut for crime novels and magic” who has written for The Escapist, Atlas Games, Pelgrane, and of course, Chaosium; Lloyd Gyan, who has also worked with Modiphius Entertainment, and as cultural liaison on RPGs such as Bastion and Liminal; game Line Editor Lynne Hardy, who has been working on and off in the roleplaying industry for almost 30 years, including as writer and Associate Editor for Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu RPG; Gavin Inglis, a writer and teacher based in Edinburgh, with a background in tech and music, who also writes adventures for Call of Cthulhu, including the introductory solo, Alone Against the Flames; supernatural fiction writer Keris McDonald, who discovered Dungeons & Dragons before it was even considered a threat to one’s immortal soul; Helena Nash, who has written adventures for Call of Cthulhu, and is one of the original developers of the cult film and television game 7TV, and created the official roleplaying game of Robert Rankin’s Brentford books; and London-based writer Lucya Szachnowski, who, in addition to her game writing, writes a London-based A Bad Witch’s Blog.
If you are familiar with the core mechanics from Call of Cthulhu like rolling D100s, using Luck, and getting Hard Successes, then you’ll pick up Rivers of London: the Roleplaying Game in no time!
No Place Like Home
Rivers of London: No Place Like Home – A Case File Collection, featuring cover art by Nigel Potter, whose work has already appeared in other Rivers of London RPG books, contains three ready-to-play mysteries for Rivers of London: the Roleplaying Game, two set in London and one in the Home Counties…
“Murder at the Museum of Memories”: Someone known to the Folly was found dead in a museum in London’s East End this morning. But what was he doing there and how did he get in?
“Crossing the Line”: A mysterious young woman went on a high-speed bag snatching spree across Woolwich and Plumstead last night. The problem is, there’s no earthly way that she could have commited the crimes in the time it took…
“Dead Lock”: The genius loci of the Rive Lea has a private commission for the investigators – one which, if they fail to resolve it, could have far reaching consequences for everyone involved.
Dead Letter
Rivers of London: Dead Letter is an interactive solo adventure, designed to introduce new players to the hobby while also showcasing Rivers of London: the Roleplaying Game to those who’ve done this sort of thing before!
Basic game rules that introduce you to Rivers of London: the Roleplaying Game – ideal for beginners – enabling you to create your own Rivers of London investigator and solve a unique mystery.
Requires only a pencil and some dice!
You are about to take on your first case in Ben Aaronovitch’s magical world of urban fantasy.
Rivers of London: No Place Like Home and Dead Letter are available now in PDF! Purchase the PDF direct from Chaosium.com and you get the price of the PDF off the physical book when it is released later this year.
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