INTEREST CHECK - Tales from the Loop

The landscape was full of machines and scrap metal connected to the facility in one way or another. Always present on the horizon were the colossal cooling towers, with their green obstruction lights. If you put your ear to the ground, you could hear the heartbeat of the Loop – the purring of the Gravitron, the central piece of engineering magic that was the focus of the Loop’s experiments. The facility was the largest of its kind in the world, and it was said that its forces could bend space-time itself.

Tales from the Loop is a roleplaying game in which the players take on the roles of Kids ages 10-15 who escape from their boring, everyday lives to investigate strange mysteries in a speculative 1980s setting based on the paintings of Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag.

I've never played before, so this would be a learning experience for me, but I'm a huge fan of the setting and have been dying to give it a shot. Drop a comment if you'd be interested.

That's some cool-ass artwork!

That artwork is amazing! If I wasn't at my limit for game commitment, I'd apply! Best of luck!

Sign me up. Sounds like a cool setting!

Well, if you're in, then so am I (plus the bonus of another game with Santouche).

Sign me up, too!

I can't pass on a game that has art work like that. Count me in. This is published by Modiphius right? I've played Mutant Year Zero before. Is it like that?

I'm taking a shine to the "hick" class..

It's D6 based and the reviews I read indicate it is very similar, yes.

Nice! I'll start working on a character, I'm thinking of going with the "hick".

I ordered a hard copy of the book today -- it will arrive Thursday. The artwork is worth it alone.

Yes please. Why not!

I've never played M:YZ, but yes, it's based on that dice mechanic.

Airickson, 78, Squad - you're all in. I'll brush up on the rules and figure out exactly what I want to run. If another player or two jump in in the meantime, even better. Gimme about a week, I'd say, to get it up and running.

I'll probably start with one of the pre-written adventures from the core rulebook (unless I have a sudden flash of inspiration), so stay away from those for your own good if you're taking a look in there.

Dandy! You're in, Librarian.

Been curious about this system for awhile now. There's a copy sitting in my FLGS... I don't think I can handle another game at the mo, but would you consider making it public and floating the forum link, so I could be a fly on the wall?

As long as all my players are cool with it, I'm more than happy to make the game public!

I'm going to go ahead and make the game forum, just in case doing so draws any additional interest in the game. I'll send the four of you invites, but please don't submit characters quite yet. We should chat a bit about setting, and since the Kids are all supposed to be friends - or at least associates - I'd like to talk through the development of the party as a whole group. So feel free to get inspired and generate ideas for your Kid, but don't get too married to any concepts quite yet. We have a few group decisions to make first.

This looks interesting, but I think I too am at my limit. I'll also take a peek in if it's public.

Up to five players, giving this a bump to see if we can get a 6th before we kick things off.

Do you envision us doing the Swedish Loop or the US Loop?

That's one of the things I wanted to talk about with you all!

My lean is towards US. Frankly, I like the geographic setting of the Swedish loop better - all the islands and stuff - but the middle of the desert has potential as well, and obviously I'm more fluent in American culture, history, naming customs, etc etc etc.

So for those reasons, if it were purely up to me, I would pick US - I kinda shudder thinking about having to constantly type Swedish proper nouns with all those accent marks - but I'm open to being persuaded otherwise if players have strong enough opinions one way or the other.

Not knowing a thing about the rulebook, or the settings described there, my preference would also be for somewhere a little more familiar. Could it be a fictional US locale that has the geography you like? Just a thought.