In the Texas town of Pinebox , football game is world-beater and something with tentacle is lurking in the local swimming hole . In this variant for the Savage Worlds RPG organization , you might battle chupacabras or zombies , but you still have to ace your anthro final tomorrow .
East Texas University positions the players as bookman at the titular fictional school . Immersed in Texas acculturation and collegial play , they ’ll also look cultists , demon , ghosts , and the rest of the usual stamp of supernatural baddie . Written by Preston DuBose and Ed Wetterman , the secret plan is ab initio uncommitted via an already successfulKickstarter run .
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/545820095/east-texas-university-savage-worlds
I was initially hoping that East Texas University would be a little more True Detective and a little less Buffy , but once I dug into it a little , I was pull ahead over . This is fundamentally a set up al-Qur’an and linguistic rule extension forthe Savage Worlds RPG . If you ’re not conversant with Savage Worlds , it ’s a jolly principle - light system intended for use in a mixture of eminent - action pulp options . It ’s got a merriment “ exploding die ” grease monkey that rent you chain really good whorl together , and uses a pack of cards of stock playacting card for initiative .
ETU takes theplaying identity card angleand expands on it , which fits the Texas setting pretty well if you like to imagine cowman act draw poker over the Captain Cook fervidness . In increase to first step , the Koran is filled with tables that are resolved with the draw of a scorecard . For case , there ’s a whole serial publication of charts that rent you make risky venture on the fly front just by drawing card for the antagonist , goal , complication , and other factor .
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/92743/Savage-Worlds-Deluxe?affiliate_id=243767
If this were just a Scooby - crew monster hunting RPG , I might be a small underwhelmed . But the aspect I observe really compelling is that the characters are per se wed to life at the university . You ’ll bump contingent on heaps of NPCs that live the school , and dominate on making sure you ’re passing your courses and move on to your next semester . It adds a clustering of merriment complications to your risky venture . You ca n’t just take off and scarper around roll guns and shoot zombie . You might have to waitress for the weekend to go explore the abandoned mansion , and your case ’s skills will be put to use bluffing professor or the schooling ’s fishy reason bunch .
The college setting adds some other atmosphere too . You could join a sorority ( or run afoul of one ) . There might be professors around with some expertness in the occult . You might meander up investigating a supernatural incident at a bar filled with drunk students on a Friday dark .
This is n’t just Collegetown , USA , it ’s deserving notice . ETU goes to great length to detail some of the refinement of East Texas , from the importance of football to mutual expressions you might pick up in your traffic with townies . “ Always imbibe upstream from the herd , son . ”
I ’ve already find risky venture ideas brewing just thinking about this especial blend of setting and supernatural tropes . What if you transplant Innsmouth to East Texas ? They ’d apparently hero-worship something other than Dagon , and be something other than fishy . I ’m thinking centipedes . It ’s a Geology Club field trip kick the bucket wrong in The Shadow Over Muleshoe !
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