Russ “Morrus” Morrissey

I think it's probably one of the first 5e sci-fi games, I think. It's been around a while now.

That's fair. So Esper Genesis is a standalone game, isn't it?

You don't need the core D&D. Do you need the Esper Genesis books to play Phantasy Star, or is that also standalone?

Yeah, there's some things that I think, like, you know, people say they're using 5e, and I think that's not the best fit. But I think for, like, for really sort of heroic science fantasy, I think 5e is a really, it's a solid choice, solid choice of a system to use for that.

Yeah, some IP holders don't like using that. I think Disney won't let anyone use Kickstarter with any of their Star Wars stuff or Marvel stuff or anything like that.

I think it's possibly an element that some of these large companies don't necessarily understand Kickstarter as well.

For people I've spoken to, it's kind of like there's too much of an overlap between crowdfunding and investing in the mind of somebody that hasn't encountered Kickstarter before.

yeah yeah so so you know i think there's like a slight concern they don't really understand what what the what the actual relationship is between a kickstarter packer and a you know because because there's some talk on kickstarter that you're investing in a product as opposed to you know and i think i think some of that terminology can possibly put you know maybe some larger companies i don't know i can't speak for them

So traditional release next year. When next year? Is there a date planned?

What product should we be expecting? Like a hardcover book? Is there adventures coming?

So it's going to be part of a coffee table reference book as well. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So we've got a hardcover core rule book. What else have we got in the plans? What's in the oven?

Right, because you're him.

Yeah, like low-res pixelated stuff. Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

The listeners will just have to listen to us going, ooh, an artist.

That's probably a setting here. I can see there's some art on the website already.

So we talk about who you play in a fantasy dialogue in terms of classes and things like that. What are the player options we're talking about here?

Well, this sounds really exciting. I mean, just like more sci-fi options for 5e is exciting in itself, just because I feel like my first love has always been sci-fi before fantasy. I've always loved it. It's always been calling to me that fantasy is so much more popular in tabletop RPGs than fantasy is. Yeah. So, you know, every time there's a new sci-fi game, I'm just like, I'm there.

I'm looking at it. I'm checking it out. So I can't wait. I'm going to be checking this out for certain next year. So what would you admit next year? Summer-ish? Probably late summer. Late summer. Okay.