Turn is a slice-of-life supernatural roleplaying game with quiet drama about shapeshifters in small, rural towns. Our Kickstarter funded at 207%, and we're on track to fulfill the core PDF content by March 2019 and the print content by May 2019. Find more details in our Kickstarter updates! Print orders are on hold while we complete our print run, after which we'll be available for print order on Indie Press Revolution!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Last week! Plus, a poetry reveal! Media updates!
over 5 years ago
– Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 12:12:56 PM
Hello all!
This is Brie! We're now officially in the last week of the Turn Kickstarter! How exhilarating! We want to express our deepest gratefulness for all of your support in making Turn into a real product that you can play easily, with beautiful art and with the support of great editing and layout! We want our PDF to be functional and gorgeous, and we want the print version to be lovely to hold in hand and use at the table. This can happen because of your support!
As we move through this final week, please still share and tell others about the Kickstarter if you can! There's some media at the end of this to share, as well.
Poetry Reveal
We wanted to reveal the poem that's going in the end of the game book, by our excellent poet A.J. Odasso. This poem explores, for me, some of the human element of Turn and some of the identity questions we often have in play.
Fireflies Gone by A.J. Odasso
So excellent! I hope you can see why I feel A.J.'s work so beautifully captures Turn and the small town, quiet experience I've designed for.
Media
At 6pm Pacific today (11/23), BasiliskOnline is doing a stream of Turn! twitch.tv/basiliskonline
Italy Unlocked! Back to America with Meguey! Art Preview!
over 5 years ago
– Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 12:12:31 PM
Italy Unlocked!
Woo! Yesterday we passed the $14,000 mark, which unlocked Giro d'Italia from Ezio Melega and Lavinia Fantini. That's super exciting and leaves us in good shape to continue with our stretch goals. To remind you, we've got:
Smeed Hill by Meguey Baker at $16,000
Halver, Germany
by Gerrit Reininghaus at $18,000 -and-
Harmouth, South Devon
by Jaye Foster at $20,000
We've had a lot of good daily momentum and I hope that continues. We'd love to see all of these goals fund.
Please, share this KS broadly, and let's get more awesome content unlocked!
Art Preview: The Late Bloomer
We're going to leave you today with a look at the art John is working on for the Late Bloomer. This is someone who came into their shifter self later in life, maybe even unexpectedly. It's a compellin concept, to be sure. I feel like this person is looking at their now-torn clothes and going "well... crap." I dig it.
Late Bloomer
There are only five days to go in the campaign! Let's finished this strong. -Tracy
$12k! First Stretch Goal Achieved!
over 5 years ago
– Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 10:26:09 AM
THANK YOU!!
We are so excited to have reached our first stretch goal, where Anders Smith will take us to Mormon communities in the desert to explore how a shifter would live in that kind of town. Awesome!
As a special bonus, Brie had a secret stretch goal that on 400 backers, they would release the American Opossum as a beast archetype! The sheet is already written, and just needs to be laid out in the template. We'll post it soon!
Next up, we have Ezio and Lavinia on the Giro d’Italia ($14,000), who will explore Italian small towns and their differences and similarities with Turn’s original USian themes, including social isolation instead of geographical isolation!
Let's keep it going!
As promised, our additional future stretch goals are detailed below!
Smeed Hill ($16,000)
By Meguey Baker
Meguey Baker
Meguey Baker (she/her) grew up in a town of 600 people, and after living in a city of 72,000 in high school, now lives in a smallish city of 18,000 in rural New England, where she writes games, raises kids, works in museums, and feeds birds. Meg co-designed the award-winning game Apocalypse World, as well as wrote the 8-game cycle Playing Nature's Year, which is full of animals being animals and people being people.
Smeed Hill will explore a town cut in half by closing mills, then closing schools, and now empty storefronts on Main Street and overgrown houses in the hills. There are still opportunities, but also needs that have yet to be met. Meguey has proposed adding a squirrel and a skunk to the available beast archetypes, wonderful new additions to a small town!
Like the other stretch goals, Smeed Hill will introduce some local NPCs to help your story along, a new town type, new beast archetypes, and a new or altered human role.
Halver, Germany ($18,000)
By Gerrit Reininghaus
Gerrit Reininghaus
Gerrit Reininghaus (he/him)will invite us to his home town Halver, in rural West Germany. Halver has rain, lots of rain. Surrounded by the hilly forests of the Sauerland, with an aging population, it seems like a safe place to grow up and live. Well, at least if you are "normal" enough to fit into one of the 100 associations, from skiing, soccer, rabbit breeding or the fire brigade. Maybe it’ll be good, too, if you don’t belong to the kids sent to the lowest level of the highly segregated German school system since Germany is separating the "good" from the "bad" kids already at the age of 10.
Gerrit grew up in Halver. He has since lived all around the globe and is now living with his family in Guatemala. For all this traveling, he still considers the first twenty years of his life in a small West German town as formative.
Halver will include NPCs, a new or altered town type, new or altered beast archetypes, and a new or altered human role.
Harmouth, South Devon ($20,000)
by Jaye Foster
Jaye Foster
Jaye Foster (Him/He) is an exceedingly overeducated native of East Devon. He currently works as a research engineer in Hong Kong. His previous published works include Age of Legends and Poor Amongst the Stars. He enjoys writing sad things on index cards but is better at GMing adventure RPGs. Most of his creative writing can be found at the 6d6 RPG Blog. He would like you to know that the cream goes on the scone before the jam.
Harmouth is a town of two thousand on the South Devon coast. It's once busy harbour is shelter to now only a few fishing boats. The town instead survives as a home for office workers who commute to the city. During the summer the town is almost overwhelmed by working class tourists on holiday to the long thin beach. The locals dislike that their town's economy is dependant on the uncouth and noisy northerners. To the south is the Atlantic Ocean and from it come rain-clouds and seagulls. Upriver is the city, an ever growing conurbation that is seeping downstream, consuming the farmland homes of the badgers.
Harmouth will include NPCs, a new or altered town type, new or altered beast archetypes, and a new or altered human role.
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Thank you again so much! Please keep sharing and supporting, we have eleven days left and surely can reach more of these awesome stretch goals! And who knows, maybe when we hit $20,000, Brie will have another surprise!
Turn Interviews, Breakdowns, and Actual Play!
over 5 years ago
– Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 12:28:01 PM
Wanna Know More About Turn?
This update is a collection of all of the places where Brie has been interviewed about Turn, where John Sheldon has broken down some of the awesomeness of Turn, and where Brie has run Turn! Check there out, share them liberally, and enjoy.
Stretch Goals!
over 5 years ago
– Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 11:16:35 AM
Hi all, this is Brie!
We did a brief update with summaries of our upcoming stretch goals, but here's some more information AND some information about... even future stretch goals! How exciting!
In Zion's Outstretched Stakes
by Anders Smith
Anders Smith
Anders Smith (he/him) is a long-time RPG fan who believes that love is love is love. He was raised as a fifth-generation member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, serving in the China Hong Kong Mission from 2002 to 2004, before leaving the church over a conflict of conscience. His stretch goal for Turn will explore the distinct culture of small Mormon towns and their place in the world, and what it means to turn.
We're so excited to have Anders on the team to explore this type of community!
Giro d'Italia
by Ezio Melega and Lavinia Fantini
Ezio Melega
Ezio Melega (he/him) is a humanities college dropout. He collaborated with several authors, writing historical essays for Montsegur 1244 and Sagas of the Icelanders. He collaborated with the Italian editor Narrattiva as a consultant, revisor, translator, demonstrator and booth baby, helping in translating and localizing, among others, Apocalypse World, Bacchanal and Monsterhearts. He has a long held and cultivated interest for history and stories, international, national and local and would talk forever about his town history, folklore and people if you don't stop him. He can cook a mean carbonara.
Lavinia Fantini
Lavinia Fantini (they/she) is a tabletop rpg enthusiast. They worked with publishing house Narrattiva as a translator, copy editor and proofreader, contributing to the Italian editions of Apocalypse World, Monsterhearts, Dungeon World, Shahida, and Emily Care Boss’ Romance Trilogy. They also helped spread the love for many other games by holding demos, offering advice on Italian forums and giving a hand with convention organizing. When it comes to game design they’re not much of an “idea guy”, preferring instead to aid others in understanding what the heart of their design is, bouncing ideas off and refining them. It's a less glamorous work, but someone has to do it!
They’re very excited about getting the chance to work on this project and help make the game more accessible to an Italian audience.
Ezio and Lavinia will be developing a collection of Italian small towns, along with updating and/or creating new archetypes and roles! These will explore how Italian towns and people work, and how they can cause shifters unique stressors and risks for exposure, while providing a window into what community means in Italy. Both of the above stretch goals will include essays on the cultural experiences.
Coming Soon!
We have a big announcement regarding stretch goals! We are currently gathering bios and ironing out details, but we've signed on Gerrit Reininghaus, Jaye Foster, and Meguey Baker! These awesome designers will be bringing us more perspectives on small-town life in different parts of the world, and the associated shifter experiences. Please keep an eye out for the update with their details soon!
