{"id":50852,"date":"2021-11-08T12:54:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T12:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurn.org\/tentaclii\/?p=50852"},"modified":"2022-09-03T10:31:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T10:31:50","slug":"forgotten-futures-an-aerial-board-of-control-rpg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/11\/08\/forgotten-futures-an-aerial-board-of-control-rpg\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten Futures: an Aerial Board of Control RPG"},"content":{"rendered":"

Further to my interest in Kipling’s A.B.C. universe<\/a> I’ve now found an Aerial Board of Control RPG from 1993 (revised 1998), set in the alternative world of his “Night Mail” future airship semi-utopia. It’s now free online as Forgotten Futures I: The A.B.C. Files<\/a><\/em> and weighs in at 52,000 words. Also the core Forgotten Futures<\/em> rulebook, and other similar source books from which to mix and match ideas are to be found here<\/a>. Useful for writers wanting to write in the A.B.C. universe as well, I’d suggest, what with history, timelines and character generator sheets and all. Author Mark Rowland welcomes PayPal donations. <\/p>\n

He had previous done RPGs such as Call of Cthulhu: Nightmare In Norway<\/em>, which appear to feature trolls that turn out to be a cross between the Martense clan in “The Lurking Fear” and Wells’s Morlocks. His Forgotten Futures<\/em> series appears to be well-regarded by the RPG crowd and was covered this summer by the 40-minute podcast The GROGNARD Files<\/em><\/a>… <\/p>\n

Marcus L Rowland take us on a tour on his works, and the ways that it has been distributed during its years of production.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Further to my interest in Kipling’s A.B.C. universe I’ve now found an Aerial Board of Control RPG from 1993 (revised …<\/p>\n

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