I have talked about this elsewhere, but since I know there are at least a few figurspelara in Sweden, I thought you guys would be interested.
The next big miniatures game from Nordic Weasel Games will be Mystic Space. It will be a heroic skirmish game with brightly coloured troopers, high tech weapons and space magic aimed at the sort of "platoon level" of scifi skirmish (so say 3-4 squads, a like number of heroes and a walker or two).
The game world will have 8 distinct factions, all drawing from the same army list but with their own faction rules and spells. This includes the Verdant Hand who are searching the galaxy for ways to elevate their race to become one with the cosmos and the Dead Wake who saw their planet collapse from misuse and are now dedicated to bringing about the eventual extinction of sapient life to protect the galaxy.
This is a bit of a departure from past games in that it is going to be a player vs player game with scenarios, points costs and all that and not a solo campaign game (though wargamers can of course two-fist it). We have two spin-offs planned as well one of which will be a co op / solo game, and another that will be a Game Mastered game in the style of Inquisitor or Laserburn.
One thing we are also doing this time is to be explicit about community support.
The rulebook will be a "living" rulebook meaning points costs, army lists, rules etc. will be updated over time, in response to player feedback. I expect that these will be pretty cautious, we don't want to throw everything upside down, but we are going to take advantage of existing as a PDF first game. So no errata lists, you just download the rulebook again.
Secondly we are going to have explicit fan fiction and fan art policies. In an age of increasingly troubled internet freedoms, I think it is worth just making it clear that we support and welcome these things rather than relying on uncertain fair use policies.
This will also include explicit permissions for things like rules conversions (including RPG conversions) and the ability to publish scenario and campaign booklets.
Finally the game will come with a license allowing anyone to produce miniatures for the game and market suitable figures as "usable with Mystic Space". We already have a couple folks on the NWG discord creating STL files for Mystic Space faction troops and I want to allow that to flourish. So you will be able to make and sell STLs or real miniatures for the various Mystic Space units and heroes.
That's a lot of marketing guff. I have a few blog posts answering some common questions linked below but I will also be on hand to answer more questions. If you want to see a preview of the rules (incomplete but completely playable) you can email me at nordicweaselgames@icloud.com
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The next big miniatures game from Nordic Weasel Games will be Mystic Space. It will be a heroic skirmish game with brightly coloured troopers, high tech weapons and space magic aimed at the sort of "platoon level" of scifi skirmish (so say 3-4 squads, a like number of heroes and a walker or two).
The game world will have 8 distinct factions, all drawing from the same army list but with their own faction rules and spells. This includes the Verdant Hand who are searching the galaxy for ways to elevate their race to become one with the cosmos and the Dead Wake who saw their planet collapse from misuse and are now dedicated to bringing about the eventual extinction of sapient life to protect the galaxy.
This is a bit of a departure from past games in that it is going to be a player vs player game with scenarios, points costs and all that and not a solo campaign game (though wargamers can of course two-fist it). We have two spin-offs planned as well one of which will be a co op / solo game, and another that will be a Game Mastered game in the style of Inquisitor or Laserburn.
One thing we are also doing this time is to be explicit about community support.
The rulebook will be a "living" rulebook meaning points costs, army lists, rules etc. will be updated over time, in response to player feedback. I expect that these will be pretty cautious, we don't want to throw everything upside down, but we are going to take advantage of existing as a PDF first game. So no errata lists, you just download the rulebook again.
Secondly we are going to have explicit fan fiction and fan art policies. In an age of increasingly troubled internet freedoms, I think it is worth just making it clear that we support and welcome these things rather than relying on uncertain fair use policies.
This will also include explicit permissions for things like rules conversions (including RPG conversions) and the ability to publish scenario and campaign booklets.
Finally the game will come with a license allowing anyone to produce miniatures for the game and market suitable figures as "usable with Mystic Space". We already have a couple folks on the NWG discord creating STL files for Mystic Space faction troops and I want to allow that to flourish. So you will be able to make and sell STLs or real miniatures for the various Mystic Space units and heroes.
That's a lot of marketing guff. I have a few blog posts answering some common questions linked below but I will also be on hand to answer more questions. If you want to see a preview of the rules (incomplete but completely playable) you can email me at nordicweaselgames@icloud.com
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