Your Feedback Is Requested… for High Plains Samurai’s Second Edition

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Greetings, qi warriors. Six years ago, the High Plains Samurai Roleplaying Game core rulebook and the ENnie-award winning High Plains Samurai: Legends guidebook entered the game atmosphere. Since this game was first launched, I’m happy to say it’s become our most successful and beloved game to ever launch from Broken Ruler Games. In that time, I’ve heard from numerous fans from around the world and played hundreds of additional hours of both campaigns and one shots at conventions and for actual play broadcasts. Time that has provided some clarity and new ideas. 

That’s right… we’re working on a second edition of High Plains Samurai. 

Currently titled High Plains Samurai: The Far Reaches, this will not only involve some tightening of the mechanics and updating the timeline of the One Land but we’re also looking to provide new adventure options and storyline ideas to take HPS in new directions. To help us reach this lofty objective, we would love to read your feedback on the original version of the game as well as your initial thoughts on some concepts under development for the new edition. If you would be so kind as to fill out the survey at the link below, your input could help make the next rendition of tabletop roleplaying’s only game about gunslingers, barbarians, samurai, gangsters, and steampunk in a post-apocalyptic world of superpowers ever better.  

Click here to fill out the High Plains Samurai – First Edition Feedback survey.

Thank you for your time and for continuing to be a part of the One Land. 

Todd Crapper
Owner/Publisher/Lead Designer
Broken Ruler Games 

In Recognition of Canada’s National Day of Truth and Reconciliation…

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From September 30 to October 2, 2022, we are offering digital versions of Pandora: Total Destruction for free. Why? Because Pandora Academies were heavily influenced by the actual horrors that occurred in residential schools in Canada and other countries around the world. September 30th is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada, our home country. For this reason, we are making it an annual tradition to provide this title for free at this time each year.

Visit the Pandora: Total Destruction page here to learn more about the game and find links to DriveThruRPG, itch.io, and the Composed Dream Games website. If you wish to learn more about the history of residential schools in Canada, you can begin at https://nctr.ca/

The logo for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada over top a misty mountain and a sprawling forest below.
To learn more about residential school in Canada, visit https://nctr.ca/

Coming Soon to Kickstarter – Campaign Options: Mazes 2nd Edition

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Have you ever tried to run a maze in your D&D game? Was it really a maze or was it a dungeon that called itself a maze? On their own, mazes can seem intimidating to run, or even boring. You’re either describing a never-ending series of corridors and dead ends or the players are easily solving the maze because they can see the whole damn map. For many of us, running a maze has never truly worked out like we planned, so we stick with the same old style of dungeon crawling.

Campaign Options: Mazes 2nd Edition is an upcoming third-party sourcebook published by Broken Ruler Games using the 5th edition of the World’s Greatest Roleplaying Game. Originally published in 2003 by Emerald Press for the 3rd Edition of the same game, this book updates the previous version with revised text to suit the current edition, new art, maps, and layout for a completely new aesthetic. It provides a game-altering option for dungeon crawling with new rules, monsters, spells, and character options designed to test any player’s appetite for exploration and danger.

It doesn’t matter if you already know how to build a maze or not, Campaign Options: Mazes 2nd Edition provides detailed guidelines, procedures, and suggestions for creating your own from scratch OR grabbing the first maze you find online and turning it into your next adventure site. And to top it all off, we’ve invited one of the industry’s best RPG cartographers, Dyson Logos (Dungeons & Dragons), to help us create a unique maze adventure, the Endless Path.

Launching September 13th, 2022 on Kickstarter.

How Residential Schools Changed Pandora

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Note: This post contains references to the genocide and trauma caused by the systemic institutionalization and abuse of Indigenous people in Canada through the residential school system. Reader discretion is advised. To learn more about the trauma caused by Canadian residential schools, visit https://nctr.ca/

Hi, everyone. Todd here. I know, I know, it’s been a long time since you’ve heard from me on here. Not because I haven’t been doing anything. Quite the opposite, actually. As you’re going to see over the coming weeks, things have been quite busy with Broken Ruler and we’re about to show the fruits of our labour very soon. In fact, I’m actually here to write about one of them now.

Before we go any further, I want to let you know this post is in the odd position of trying not to be a marketing post announcing a new product launch on a website that sells it. That is not my intention. For that reason, there will be no links to any products on this website provided in this post. There are other places around here where you can click and access them. But I’m not doing it here.

Some of you may remember a crowdfunding campaign back in 2021 for a game called Pandora: Total Destruction. While it’s very typical to make a short post announcing its release, where you can buy it, and what people are saying about it… I want to discuss something else about this game before that happens. About how a personal discovery of some family history and a national tragedy helped to re-shape this game and make it better. I do this for two reasons.

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