Even In The ‘Welcome To Night Vale’ RPG, Do NOT Approach The Dog Park
The Welcome To Night Vale RPG raised well over $200,000 on its first day of crowdfunding. And that’s only counting *this* reality.
Welcome to Night Vale is probably one of the foundations of the narrative podcast concept. Its community broadcasts have painted a picture of a town out in the middle of nowhere, where strange things are everyday occurrences, where Carlos is perfect, and where you can, if you try real hard, lose yourself but find something much better on the way.
Now it breeches yet another dimension, crashing headlong into the world of tabletop roleplaying games with the Welcome to Night Vale Roleplaying Game. Just don’t ask the wrong questions.
The Welcome to Night Vale Roleplaying Game – On BackerKit Now
The Welcome to Night Vale RPG is developed by Renegade Game Studios, who will be putting its Essence 20 RPG engine to work for the game. What is Essence 20? In a nutshell, it’s a d20 system based on the 5E ruleset. I’ll be curious to see how Renegade Games has adapted it to the dark humor of Welcome to Night Vale. But they’ve captured, pardon the pun, the essence, of Welcome to Night Vale. The eerie mood, the community radio vibes – it’s all there.
Turn on your radio and hide.
In the campaign, you’ll get a fair number of rewards. Including the big new boxed set, which includes:
- Three Core Rulebooks – Visitor’s Guide, Citizen’s Guide, Host’s Guide
- The Skeleton Gorge Incident
- 11 pre-generated characters
- 9 “threats”
- Night Vale Dice
The campaign launched yesterday and has already hit over $220,000. So it’s only going to be up and up from here, much like the tides of eeriness in Night Vale itself.
And remember, dogs are not allowed in the dog park. Humans are not allowed in the dog park.
