It was a while since last there was a thread, eh? Pull out a chair, grab a synth-beer and sit down, mate...
>SLA Industries, first published by Scottish company Nightfall Games in 1993, is a game of punk dystopia, gory horror and consumerist satire.
>Books Everything's 'pay what you want' on DrivethruRPG these days! drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/3600/Nightfall-Games?src=nightfall_co&test_epoch=0 But for your comfort here's everything ever published for the game in one place. Plus some convention adventure module or something... dunno where that came from but it's good anyhow. Also included in this is the not entirely favored Big Picture, in the Writer's Guide. Read at your own risk! mega.nz/#F!SlFhTJZK!uW8_tIZsgvcTLfKB5mo3vw
>SLA Industries skirmish wargame kickstarter There's a couple of days left on this one. And it actually looks pretty nice! Minis are good and most of the stretch goal figs are in the bag. Would've been nice to get the last Stormer and the Necanthrope, but oh well... If they'll manage to put into some kind of campaign ruleset in this, could we be looking at a next-generation Necromunda with a more fleshed out setting? kickstarter.com/projects/darumaproductions/sla-industries-cannibal-sector-1
"Yeah, it's one of the things I'm revising on SLA Industries. The Shaktar race will stay essentially the same, but I wanted to make changes to how they looked. First was to reduce the whole 'predator' look as much as possible. The other thing was there were too many facial similarities with the Stormer (lipless mouths, huge fangs, long jaws).
It was always a pretty niche game, but sure people played it. You could say it's a grimdark Shadowrun, without the whole "acting outside the law" part.
Jace Cruz
Huh, new stretch goal? Sort of odd to have a legendary monstrosity in the boardgame... What are some OPs gonna do about an immortal murder manchine?
Dominic Flores
Are the Wraith Raiders getting a redesign as well? Their wargame minis look a bit odd.
Jordan Lee
Haven't heard anything about it, but I'm not very conversant in SLA these days? I just found the Allsop quote when trawling devart...
I don't think any previews of Wraith Raider minis have been presented yet? If your GIS:ing for them you'll only find old homemade conversions on 25mm bases.
Isaiah Perry
That was the picture I was meaning.
Dylan Gutierrez
Oh, and some TMP forumer said that the models are more akin to 32mm. I dunno how I feel about that... Large models are cool, but it'll also make it more difficult to proxy or convert models when you just need a bunch of
He's not especially different from old Wraith'ers, is he...? Oh, you might mean the more feline features from the first edition of the game? I dunno why but those disappeared more than a decade ago, WRs have had more of a pointy reptilian snout for a very long time.
Caleb Allen
Yup, a friend of mine GMd it a few years back. It was fun, Brain Wasters are great.
Ryan Torres
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I always thought the core art didn't really match the 'large humanoid lion' thing from the text.
Wyatt Williams
Oh! Didn't notice those little qts :3
But large? WRs have been lithe and small-ish pretty much from the start, haven't they? It was long since I browsed the core book to be honest...
Gotta admit SLA's a really good setting if you want a skirmish game though, there's shitloads of stuff in the streets and the 'zones, and lots of various groups or factions if you're looking for opposing sides in encounters. I'm hoping the game turns out alright.
Jace Baker
APPEARANCE: Wraith Raiders resemble large humanoid lions. They stand on two legs and their bodies are slim but athletic with well pronounced muscles.
According to the Height and Weight tables, a WR is between 1.8 and 2.1 m tall (5'11"-6'11"), and weighs 68-83 kg (150-183 lbs.).
Jaxson Allen
Ah, maybe I should've said 'thin' rather than 'small'? But that's indeed a sort of strange description... They're the physically weakest race, aren't they? I guess you could use descriptors such as "athletic" and "well pronounced muscles" but still, they're really weedy!
Juan Jenkins
Second-equal with Humans, Ebons are the weakest.
Ryder Morris
Ah, I see.
Xavier Reyes
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Elijah Peterson
Whose pledged at what level? I don't know if I want the skirmish stuff until I see a community in my area, but what's the rpg stuff at the £20 level?
Joshua Cooper
So, does it mean that there will finally be a wiki of sorts? It always seemed like a nice, weird setting, but creator's attitude was a bit... curious. It seemed to me they really didn't want anybody to hear about their system.
>write a nice little system >yell 'copyright' every time somebody tries to popularize or even discuss it >'we cannot have that since we need to sell more book'
I'm not saying that they are assholes, but this is a rather peculiar strategy.
Also, they are assholes.
Levi Perez
Got a bit of money so I think I'm actually gonna go all in on Contract Circuit. Waiting for May to yell "article 50!!!" before the KS drive ends, so the GBP will take a dip...
William Myers
I went in at £20, and put a core book and set of dice in as extras. I have no idea what sort of black magic they've done to get shipping to NZ down to £10, given that it's usually like $75 USD.
I wonder what the quality of the new core book prints will be, because apparently the master PDF won't look too different to the shitty scan we currently have.
Camden Brown
Huh, there's new RPG printings as well? Missed that. I'm just in it for a skirmish with campaign gameplay, pretty much. As long as the basic ruleset is decent you can probably cook up the narrative/stat groth mechanics yourselves?
I'm thinking Cognates, bands of Contract Killers, criminal Props or gangs, Shian cults, cannibal tribes, Carrion warrens, shoals of Dream entities, soft companies, war-world veterans, groups of Manchines, cannibal pigs or other monstrosities... They all want a piece each other or the juicy civvies, stting idle in Downtown. And of course theres hapless Shivers or OP squads, just out trying to do some BPNs, caught in the middle of it. There's tones of themes for various warbands!
Jace Stewart
Oh, and fucking 8th moon Shaktars.
Luke Gray
Post favourite Stormers
Josiah Young
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Xavier Cox
or media waifus...
Luis Reyes
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Leo Myers
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Jason Bailey
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Cooper Cruz
Yep. Loved it. I played a young Wraith Raider with a Frother drug habit. Picture Newt from Aliens on combat drugs. She'd do little jobs here and there for gas money for her moped and more drugs. Ended up on the news a few times which led to her being picked up to join a Merc group of operators. She was like the mascot, and would find ways to survive things that killed everyone else around her. Had a lot of fun playing that character.
Ryan Green
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William Ross
Played a couple of times, loved it. Is anybody looking to run another game? I'm sure people would be down for it.
Nolan Clark
The impression I've gotten from SLA is having quite the cool setting and atmosphere, but being marred by a very clumsy system?
Easton Sanchez
I didn't think it was that bad when I looked at it.
Connor Adams
Might be personal preference. I'm coming from SR3, and desu I have never played SLA, just browsed through the books.
Hudson Young
The system itself is fine, it just needs some house rules established first. Some of the skills aren't very well defined as far as exactly what they do, but the base system is pretty sound.
Christian Lewis
I'll have to take your word for it then. But the skill thing I saw referenced on their own forums too, that there's just too goddamn many?
John Carter
I like the 'scifi with EDGE HORROR' mixup. Like CoC if you had power armor and LMGs.
Ethan Hughes
>GM Screen I have it. Unfortunately I have no scanner.... I'm this user I've always enjoyed SLA, but I hardly see any threads here about it. If there's more SLA threads in the future, I'll try to find a way to pull it off though.
Brayden Jenkins
That's cool! Did it come with any booklets or additional material? You ever manage to digitally preserve it, drop it off in the PDF share thread!
Dominic Cruz
You could take photos of it and upload them, maybe.
Do you have the book that came with it?
Easton Lewis
I've always wanted a fullsize of that Clint Langley pic
Jordan Fisher
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Joseph Bennett
Yeah it came with a booklet, I have it. I'm out of town though so I can't photograph it. I might try to post some shots at the very least so ppl can at least read them.
