So I see the ad campaign and playin Bud Spencer in a fantasy setting sounds good, but does anybody has any actual gameplay experience with this?
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I am insanely sorry I cannot help you but seeing Bud Spencer here fills me with joy.
At least, the developers knew what will be their selling point.
>when an opponent hits you with a melee attack, you can spend ki poin to make an unarmed strike using your reaction
I came
Haven't played it, but i like the setting and some of it's rules, but the campaign is so chockfull of star wars references it loses quite a lot of it's charm. Still, it has killer rabbits as a playable specie, like the ones from medieval paintings
Isn't that just in the one sourcebook, "The Empire Whacks Back"? Also, I'm annoyed they had cool stuff like the puss-in-boots analogues, ratfolk and the jackrabids and they gave us "hairy pagan humans" and "big greedy humans" as default setting races.
Yeah, that's just The Empire Whacks Back adventure. The rest is less Star Wars related and more Italian comedy fantasy related.
yeah, i know is just the empire whacks back campaign, but it still feels our of touch with the rest of the general gameline. i mean, a few references are ok, but when it's the entire thing, it can lose it charm,
It's literally called The Empire Whacks Back. It's clearly going in to be full of Star Wars references.
And to be fair it wasn't written by the main developers of the setting but by an Italian comedy group called Feudalismo e Liberta. They're schtick is acting like a political party that wants to bring back the middle ages.
So what prompt did you give to the bot? Or just liked the picture and added "RPG game"?
Saw the movie and it was the first thing came to my mind reading the setting's description.
Has Italy ever produced anything of value to the hobby?
It had the best Cyberpunk 2020 edition with the best art for 20 years.
The One Ring - The best Tolkien inspired RPG to date, particularly in its newest edition, as well as its 5e form Adventures in Middle Earth
Household - An RPG with a unique setting of playing small fae in an abandoned house who have formed nations based on different rooms and waged wars with each other. You have the Realm of the Dining Room ruled by the faery empress Arcadia as well as the Free Dominions of the Upper Floor ruled by the a symposium of Sprites, etc.
Broken Compass - A quick and easy, but still quite fun RPG inspired by pulp adventure stories. Inspired by Uncharted, Tomb Raider, Indiana Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean, and even has a sourcebook for the Victorian/Edwardian sci-fi adventures written by Jules Verne.
Lex Arcana - An RPG about being government agents that hunt the supernatural, with the twist that it takes place during the Roman Empire. You are secret agents of Caesar that hunt the monsters of Mediterrean Mythology.
Journey to Ragnarok - A 5e adventure and setting inspired by Viking mythology and has the aesthetic of heavy metal and power metal music, particularly the music of Manowar.
Fabula Ultima - An RPG set to emulate the experience of playing classic fantasy JRPGs like Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Bravely Default, and Ni No Kuni.
and recently Outgunned - An RPG for the 80s-90s action movie genre.
These are all RPGs made by Italians and meant for a general audience. I should also add that the makers of Brancalonia, Acheron Studios, also made an adventure module inspired by Dante's Inferno and are currently writing one inspired by the Apocalypse of Saint John. In both cases there is an accompanying copy of the original work using the artwork made for the module.
You forgot Sine Requie
I also apparently forgot Against the Dark master, DIE, and Fragments of the Past.
There is also lots of less known stuff like OSOK (one shot one kill), a john woo / quentin tarantino inspred cinematic action game. Has gone on long enough to reach a third edition, i never played but i remember that had some fun mechanics for being a 2005 game (like, for example, an escalation/momentum meter).
>fork embedded on the spider
I dunno many spiders that can survive that
And I don't want to know those that can
There's also giant centipedes in the setting as well as a scorpion in the basement. The picture is from the places between called The InBetweens, the setting's equivalent of the Underdark.
>Listing Broken Compass as "anything of value"
Which is further jarring given the rest of the games you've listed, so it wasn't intended as a bait post
>there is an accompanying copy of the original work using the artwork made for the module.
Amazing. What a great list.
When I GM in my settings, Italy is Brancalonia. It goes like this:
>Italy is Brancalonia
>Holy Roman Empire is Warhammer F Empire
>Nordic countries are Trudvang
>England is Birthright
ANYWAY, wasn't there talks about more books on the Brancalonia setting approaching other countries? I would probably buy the shit out of it.
Legit, by this it seems that the italian RPG scene is fricking awesome.
Wonder if it would be easy to pirate Household and Broken Compass.
>wasn't there talks about more books on the Brancalonia setting approaching other countries?
yeah one being the Brancalonia version of HRE
Any news on that?
not to my knowledge
Yes, it's the empire whacks back book. As far as i know, they're working on another book set on france.
Wait, so it was released already?
Yes and there is a kickstarter with a bestiary, a gazetter, and another campaign based on italian poem epic Orlando Furioso
You could pirate them. But the Household PDFs are also on sale right now: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/18374/Two-Little-Mice/subcategory/37365_45270/Household
>Household
I've never heard of it but wow, you make it sound amazing.
Both Against the Darkmaster and Four Against Darkness are made by italians.
>Against the Darkmaster
Wait, really? Then where the frick is the Italian localisation? On drivethrougrpg there's only the 'lite' version as far as i know.
Seems they only made the quickstarter rules in Italian, then completely abandoned it even before the kickstarter.
Well that sucks. I don't have personally any issues in playing/running an english rulesystem but, frick me, it's a drag to convince my players in trying something that doesn't have our native language localisation and the fact this could easily been made in italian without issues but they decided not to REALLY grinds my gears. I guess i will keep using my shit GIRSA (Italian localisation for MERP) core manual pdf and the rolemaster Spell Law if i ever want to run something alike.
>it's a drag to convince my players in trying something that doesn't have our native language localisation
As a fellow pasta, I completely understand that.
How many times I tried to make people play trpgs and being refused on the ground that "it's english, too much effort".
>and the fact this could easily been made in italian without issues but they decided not to REALLY grinds my gears.
I guess it was economic reasons.
Fantasy rpgs that are not D&D/PF are a tough sell in Italy.
>I guess it was economic reasons.
>Fantasy rpgs that are not D&D/PF are a tough sell in Italy.
Sure but they could just made the ita one pdf only. Again i don't think was that massive endeavour to make a version of the game, that you're writing to begin with, in your native language. Heck, they literally made the lite in italian and that's like 150 pages alone.
Even the 4aD author made an Italian version of his game, I guess they just didn't gave a frick.
Last time I checked everyone was on the D&D/PF bandwagon because of popularity and language barrier.
Like
said, in the past there was ironically more choice, now it's pretty rare to find people playing non-mainstream trpg.
>Fantasy rpgs that are not D&D/PF are a tough sell in Italy.
So ya all D&Drones, like the French?
Yes. Ever since the old days (i personally know some grog still running AD&D 1e/2e). We had some more variety in the 90s (in my lgs we had various BRP games, VtM, MERP and even GURPS) but thereafter is d&d all along the line with some localised white fly exceptions if you're lucky enough to know people passionate enough to try something else.
Btw, i was thinking, are you french? I ask because, en lieu of "the one ring" cited in this thread, i still have a pdf copy of "Tiers Âge", a french lotr ttrpg that was weirdly good in my opinion (i stole various tables from that game). Do you know it?
Here's the original site:
https://couroberon.com/site2/tiers-age/
...and localised in italian:
http://www.brigata.it/terza-era/
I'm Austrian and I picked latin over french for my college-equivalent education, so no.
It's in the works
*cough*
I wish AI shitters lose their jobs to their beloved machine
this isn't AI, its an actual old Italian movie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier_of_Fortune_(1976_film)
He obviously meant the OP, not the reference, you dumb dingus
seems like a fun altered version of 5e
Because that's literally what it is.
And the brawling rules aren't too great.
But they're bringing the genre back, that's what matters.
what genre?
They call it zappa e spada (wordplay on cappa e spada, I'd translate it as sword and plow, because sword and hoe sounds like a... different kind of medieval rpg), it's similar to picaresque but more fantastic, and in short what
said, a comedic style of low fantasy, low class adventure.
BTW Picari is also a movie ALMOST in the genre, you can get some inspiration from it.
BRANCA BRANCA BRANCA
LEON LEON LEON
[whistle sound followed by a boom]
what a wild fantasy map
Looks unrealistic, srly a boot?
Better than a witch riding a pig, I say.
Since this is now an Italian rpg thread, do any of you know where I can download a copy of Barbarian?
Frick that's my post. I have a copy of on my pc, but it's basically a series of .doc files. If you can wait a moment i will make an upload ad share it here
here you go anon:
https://mega.nz/file/KUNDUJxS#OA9eip0tAjOVVIXEm510BQ911ug8BvbopcTPxR0WzUw
Thank you! That's actually more material than I expected it to have. Looking at the GUS page on the wayback machine, it's got a lot too. Did this guy do other stuff or just fade out?
>or just fade out?
As far as i personally know sadly yes. I remember he was very active on ilnucleo and gdritalia.
I found a Cyberpunk 2020 adaptation of Death Valley Free Prison (normally for Spacemaster) on the jargon big of that games store just off the Plaza of the Duomo in Florence.
Don’t read Italian but it’s cool.
is this the Italian Aquelarre
Much more comedic. Italian film had a whole genre of fantasy-comedies that the setting references.
Sounds fake honestly
i thought the name was a reference to Brancaleone, a funny movie from italy, I recommend it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27armata_Brancaleone
It is a very intentional reference to that.
the game setting itself is mostly just a bunch of references to Italian cinema and literature, the book even contains a list of films that inspired it
References and Inspiration
An exhaustive list of all the movies, books, and comics that have been inspiring to Brancalonia's authors and contributors would require many pages. Here you can find a short selection and a good start. Enjoy the Italian style!
Comics
Magnus & Romanini – The Company of the Gallows
Magnus & Bunker / Cimpellin & Bunker – Maxmagnus
Pratt – Corto Maltese series
Rastrelli & Nuti – Giovanni delle Bande Nere
Battaglia – Gargantua and Pantagruel, Il Corsaro del Mediterraneo,
San Francesco, and others
Magnus – Ten Knights and a Wizard
Marini & Desberg – Lo Scorpione
Toppi – Cavaliere di Ventura, Europee, Mediterranee, Bestiario,
and others
Wood & Salinas / Gomez – Dago
Literature and folktales
Basile – The Tale of Tales
Calvino – The Baron in the Trees, The Cloven Viscount, The
Nonexistent Knight, Italian Folktales, Orlando Furioso, The
Castle of Crossed Destinies, Invisibles Cities
Collodi – Pinocchio
Pederiali – Il Tesoro del Bigatto
Buzzati – The Secret of the Old Woods, The Tartare Steppe, The
Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily, and others
Eco – Baudolino
Pitrè – Sicilian Fairy Tales, Stories, and Folktales
Rodari – The Road to Nowhere, and other stories
Essays
* Cattabiani – Calendario, Lunario, Santi d'Italia, and others
Movies
Tale of Tales
The Rogues
For Love and Gold and Brancaleone at the Crusades
Attila Flagello di Dio
Bertoldo, Bertoldino and Cacasenno
Cinderella Italian Style
Fantaghirò
The Profession of Arms
Captain Fracassa's Journey
The Devil in Love
Ladyhawke
Flesh + Blood
The Princess Bride
* indicates the "highly recommended" titles
>Magnus
>Magnus
>Magnus
And yet all that has ever been translated outside of the Adriatic region are some of his tamest non-guro porn works and some incomplete stuff he drew for Metal Hurlante.
And the fricking Germans even paid for more of Gli Aristocrati to be made instead of picking up any of the good series.
will need to check out some of these (especially the comics/fumetti).
They worth a check and provide better adventure ideas than most module.
Gameplay is 5e,so it's just a very fun setting patching up a very poor system