Lifted SitRep: April 2023
about 3 years ago
– Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 09:22:16 AM
Hey, gamers!
Backerkit is under review; smoke testing should happen over the next few days, and the gates will open!
Writing assignments are coming in for editing; I'm still looking over so much art, trying to nail down a style and aesthetic for the book's interior. It looks like the biggest adds to Cortex I'll have are for Milestones and character advancement and combat initiative mechanics. However, I am still holding out for a Pathways card deck!
I get questions about a Discord for Lifted. I'll see if the Cortex Discord will let us team-up with them and add a Lifted channel. I know some folks over there and they already have moderators in place.
You can catch me at Origins Games on Demand and at GenCon this summer. I'll have more details to post soon. I'm excited about the con season!
-Mad Jay
Lifted SitRep: Feb 2023
over 3 years ago
– Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 04:15:26 PM
Hello gamers and friends,
Lifted BackerKit opens VERY SOON, ideally this month. I'm doing some number crunching on stretch goals that didn't make it, hoping these can be add-ons.
Writers are writing! I'd dump the list of topics...but it's an ugly-looking list right now. The Indomitable setting takes place about 1-2 years after the Lifted Vault 01 zine. We'll see updates for:
- Peaty and his underworld fam troubles.
- X-630 and some of the other experiments from Mjollnir labs.
- The Pilot program and the Tether suits.
- The Kraken’s agenda with Atlantis breaking loose!
- The multi-dimensional Dr.Clark/R3D/Murder of Crows.
- And the free city of Rio.
I've been playtesting a new initiative/combat mechanic. I'm collapsing initiative, the ordering of actions into the action roll. I intend for this to increase player engagement and tension. It looks like this:
1. Everyone declares actions for the turn. No order, just an open conversation until everyone is happy with their declarations.
Logan: "I leap out at Creed with my claws out"
Kitty: "I'm phasing Sean and me through the floor and out of the room"
Creed: "heh, I'm snapping Sean's neck"
2. Assemble dice pools for the declared actions, and everyone rolls together.
3. Actions happen in order of a pool's value. Character targets have options to abort their actions for full defense, or keep their declared action and dice, leaving it up to passive/partial defense to save them.
It's close but not perfect yet. We play on.
See ya next month!
