RPGs 2017: Cyberpunk to Steampunk to Westerns

As we hit the end of 2017, I'm preparing to catalog and write up the year’s releases in the genres I’ve covered in my RPG History lists. I’ve assembled basic lists. They don't include everything—with a few exceptions items have a physical release or if electronic only have 72 pages or more. Kickstarted projects need to have delivered a final pdf in to be counted.

This is a skeleton list. For supplements I've put the system name in parenthesis; otherwise it's a core or generic book. I’ll do full posts throughout the year. More than anything I want to get a sense of how many games and supplements we saw in each category. Across the board we had many more than I thought. This post just covers everything but Horror RPGs. I’ve posted those here.

CYBERPUNK

Augmented Reality

Book of the Lost (Shadowrun)

Dark Terrors (Shadowrun)

Denver Adventure 3: Ripping Reality (Shadowrun)

Im Bann der Karten (Shadowrun, German)

Incorporated Volume2 (Corporation)

Infinity the Role Playing Game

Interface Zero (Pathfinder)

Mirrorshades

NeuroSpasta (5E)

November Metric (The Sprawl)

Quantronic Heat (Infinity)

Seattle: Stadt der Schatten Quellenbox (Shadowrun, German)

State of the Art ADL (Shadowrun, German)

Synthicide

The Complete Trog (Shadowrun)

Vurt: TheTabletop Roleplaying Game (Catalyst)

POST-APOCALYPTIC

2099 Wasteland (Hypercorps)

Death is the New Pink (Into the Odd)

Degenesis: The Killing Game

Dusk

Godless (Shadow of the Demon Lord)

Greenscape (Savage Worlds, Spanish)

Hope Inhumanity (2nd Edition)

Implausible Deniability (Paranoia)

Into the Outside (Numenera)

Jade Colossus: Ruins of the Prior Worlds (Numenera)

Magic & Techno-Sorcery (Second Edition) (APOCalypse 2500)

Mutant Crawl Classics Role Playing Game

Ninth World Bestiary2 (Numenera)

Paranoia: Red Clearance Edition

Pathogen: Unclassified

Post Apocalypse

Postapocalyptica: Mundo Roto (Spanish)

Rockalypse Accelerated (Fate)

Scorched Earth (Pathfinder)

SINS

Strange Aeon

The Bridges We Burn (Numenera)

The Spire of the Hunting Sound (Numenera)

The Umerican Survival Guide (DCC)

The Zombie Plagues Expanded Edition (APOCalypse 2500)

STEAMPUNK & VICTORIANA

1879

Alas for the Awful Sea: Myth, Mystery & Crime in 1800s UK

Auge um Auge (Private Eye, German)

Bedlam Hall

Big Trouble in Little Soho (1879)

En Busca del Luna Esmeralda (Aventuras en la Marca del Este, Spanish)

Engines & Empires Core Rules

Firearms & Margarine (Castle Falkenstein)

Freiheit für Schwarzenbrück: Teil 1 (Finsterland, German)

Hudson and Brand, Inquiry Agents of the Obscure (Cthulhu by Gaslight)

London, or The Haunted City (1879)

Mists of Akuma (5E)

Through the Breach (2nd Ed.)

Traveler's Guide to Edara (Edara)

Wild Skies: Europa Tempest

World of Gaia (Engines & Empires)

SUPERS

Are You Mental?

Atlas of Earth-Prime (Mutants & Masterminds)

Encyclopedia of Golden Age Superheroes

Freedom City 3rd Edition (Mutants & Masterminds)

Golden Age Champions

Halcyon City Herald Collection (Masks: A New Generation)

Heroes Wear Masks: Powers (5E)

ICONS: Origins (ICONS)

ILLL- Intergalactic Lucha Libre League

Improbable Tales Volume 2 (Various)

Mighty Protectors

Rise of the Phalanx (ICONS)

Sentinel Comics: The Roleplaying Game – Starter Kit

Supergame Classic Reprint

Supergame Third Edition

Survivor's Guide, Vol. I (Rotted Capes)

Unmasked (Cypher)

Wearing the Cape: The Roleplaying Game

 

UNIVERSAL SYSTEMS

3Deep Core Rules (2nd Edition)

Follow

Forthright Open Roleplay Core Rulebook

Genesys Core Rulebook

High Stakes 

KARMA: A Roleplaying Game About Consequences

MONAD System (Italian)

OneDice Universal Revised

Pip System Corebook

WESTERNS

Down Darker Trails (Call of Cthulhu)

Far West La Leyenda (Spanish)

Frontier (5E)

Gli Ultimi Volume1 (Deadlands, Italian)

How The West Was Hacked: The Weird Wild West RPG

Our Lost Way (Praxis)

Print the Legend

The Hollow West (Fate)

Westbound Basic Rules

History of Cyberpunk RPGs

History of Universal RPGs

History of Post-Apocalyptic RPGs

History of Steampunk & Victoriana RPGs

History of Superhero RPGs

History of Horror RPGs

History of Wild West RPGs

Samurai RPGs

What did I miss? If you've spotted major omissions, give me a heads up in the comments. 

Horror RPGs 2017 (Cthulhu and Not Cthulhu)

As we hit the end of 2017, I'm preparing to catalog and write up the year’s releases in the genres I’ve covered in my RPG History lists. I’ve assembled basic lists. They don't include everything—with a few exceptions items have a physical release or if electronic only have 72 pages or more. Kickstarted projects need to have delivered a final pdf in to be counted.

This is a skeleton list. For supplements I've put the system name in parenthesis; otherwise it's a core or generic book. I’ll do full posts throughout the year. More than anything I want to get a sense of how many games and supplements we saw in each category. Across the board we had many more than I thought. This post just covers the Horror RPGs. You'll find everything else here. 

HORROR (CTHULHU/LOVECRAFTIAN)

A Clockwork of Orange 1: The Heydelburg Horror (Clockwork & Chivalry)

A1: Dungeons & Cthulhu: El Templo Perdido de Hastur el Innombrable (DCC, Spanish)

Alone Against the Dark (2nd edition) (Call of Cthulhu)

Ars Mathematica (Call of Cthulhu, German)

Cards from the Smoke (Call of Cthulhu)

Cold Warning (Call of Cthulhu)

Covert Actions (World War Cthulhu)

Cthulhu City (Trail of Cthulhu)

Cthulhu Dark

Delta Green: Handler's Guide (Delta Green)

Down Darker Trails (Call of Cthulhu)

Extremophilia (Delta Green)

Frisches Blut (Call of Cthulhu, German)

Fundido en Blanco (Cultos Innombrables, Spanish)

Hackergeist: Electronic Grimoire of Cybersigils of the Cthulhu Mythos

Harlem Unbound

Herald: Lovecraft & Tesla (Savage Worlds)

Hudson and Brand, Inquiry Agents of the Obscure (Cthulhu by Gaslight)

Le Terre del Sogno (Alba di Cthulhu, Italian)

Leagues of Cthulhu (Leagues of Adventure)

Lost in the Lights (Call of Cthulhu)

Mystiker & Magier (Call of Cthulhu, German)

Mythos Horror Creation System

Our American Cousins (World War Cthulhu)

Out of the Woods (Trail of Cthulhu)

Pathfinder #114: BlackStars Beckon (Pathfinder)

Pax Cthuliana (Call of Cthulhu)

Petersen's Abominations (Call of Cthulhu)

Reign of Terror (Call of Cthulhu)

Secret Soldiers (d20 Modern)

Sju Porträttav Elvira Wallin (Svenska kulter – rollspelet, Swedish)

Strange Aeon

Sun Spots (Call of Cthulhu)

Sunken Temple (Pathfinder)  

Terra Cthulhiana: Alte und Neue Welt (Call of Cthulhu, German)

Terra Cthulhiana: Bis ans Ende der Welt (Call of Cthulhu, German)

The Grand Grimoire of Cthulhu Mythos Magic (Call of Cthulhu)

The Oldskull Necronomicon (AD&D 1e)

The Pegana Mythos

The Star on the Shore (Call of Cthulhu)

The Two-Headed Serpent (Call of Cthulhu)

Three Faces of the Wendigo (The Cthulhu Hack)

Was Ewig Liegt Band 1 (Pathfinder, German)

HORROR (EVERYTHING ELSE)

All of Their Strengths

Bedlam Hall

Beyond the World's Edge (Shadow of the Demon Lord)

Bluebeard's Bride

Changing Ways (Werewolf 20)

Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras Companion (Various)

Classified Materials (I Love the Corps)

Colonial Gothic Rulebook: Third Edition

Colonial Gothic: Settings

Cursed Necropolis: Rio (Mummy: The Curse)

Dark Ages Companion (Vampire 20)

Dark Designs (Nightbane)

El Hombre Abstracto (Fate Core/Savage Worlds, Spanish)

Elizabethan Adventures

Flames of Freedom: Beginnings (Colonial Gothic)

Fragged Aeternum (Fragged Empire)

Freeport Companion (Shadow of the Demon Lord)

Game Master's Guide to Kaidan (Pathfinder)

Ghastly Affair  

Glimpset he Beyond Second Edition

Godless (Shadow of the Demon Lord)

Guide to Shapeshifters (Leagues of Gothic Horror)

Half-Damned (Vampire: The Requiem)

Horrors: The Scary Story RPG

Hostile

Innocents

Leagues of Gothic Horror Expansion

Legacy of Lies (Vampire: The Dark Ages)

Lethal Inheritance (Shadows Over Sol)

Libreté (French)

Lights Out The Roleplaying Game

Lore of the Bloodlines (Vampire 20)

Marine Training Manual (I Love the Corps)

Mission Dossier (I Love the Corps)

Monsters (Chill)

Nighmares of the Dead Dreamers

Night Horrors: Conquering Heroes (Beast the Primordial)

Nostalgia: La Flotta Nomade (MONAD, Italian)

OneDice Hauntaway

Oubliette Second Edition

Qritter Qatalog (Qalidar: Resistance)

Return to Titan (Shadows Over Sol)

Send in the Clowns (vs Stranger Stuff)

Slasher (Fate Core)

The Blood Hack

The Journey to Norumbega (Colonial Gothic)

The Nameless Grimoire (The Nightmares Underneath)

Thousand Years of Night (Vampire the Requiem)

Town of Dover (Beyond the Firelight)

Unknown Armies

vs. Stranger Stuff: Season 2

Xenomorphs:The Fall of Somerset Landing (N.E.W.)

History of Cyberpunk RPGs

History of Universal RPGs

History of Post-Apocalyptic RPGs

History of Steampunk & Victoriana RPGs

History of Superhero RPGs

History of Horror RPGs

History of Wild West RPGs

Samurai RPGs

What did I miss? If you've spotted major omissions, give me a heads up in the comments. 

Sigmata & Cryptomancer: Gauntlet Podcast Interview

SIGNAL-PLAYER GAME
Today on the Gauntlet Podcast I talk with Chad Walker, designer of Cryptomancer. He has a Kickstarter currently running for his game Sigmata: This Signal Kills Fascists. We talk about both games, ideas of security, and how politics fit into his rpgs. You can find the podcast link here. We’ve also posted the audio on YouTube and I've linked that below. 

I really dug this conversation. It gave me greater insight into Cryptomancer, a game that surprised me in play. It’s on my short list of rpgs to revisit for the Gauntlet Hangouts in 2018. Sherri always brings it up when we discuss future campaigns. After I ran my online sessions I wrote a post/review you can see here; that links to our actual play videos. 

We recorded this interview before Walker finalized his campaign's launch, so we missed a couple of things. In particular he hadn’t pulled together his stretch goal projects. Since then he's added several designers authors with new material. As of this writing he’s funded four of those: 

• "Black Snake Rebellion" by Ishki Ricard which delves into Native American issues and ideas. 
• "Cable Street" by G. Michael Truran offering an alternate version of 1936 Great Britain. 
• "The Complex" by Shae Roberts which combines the Manchurian Candidate with the Black Panthers. 
• "The Missing Women of India" by jim pinto gives an alternate setting of hyper-Patriarchy and India.

The campaign has several more cool ones in the pipeline, including Kira Magrann’s cyberpunk South Africa: "Chromewall." I’m glad to see the project bringing in more material dealing with representation and diversity. That’s made me even more eager for the final result. 

I'm cautiously optimistic about seeing more games tackle political issues, even at a tangent. There's certainly something in the air between Bully Pulpit's Winterhorn Robert Bohl's revision of Misspent Youth. 

I hope you'll check out the podcast; I think it's solid.