Pre-Order Your Copy of High Plains Samurai Before September 15th

August 16, 2018 Todd Crapper High Plains Samurai BackerKit, High Plain Samurai, Jeff Brown, playmat, pre-orders

August has been quite the month for everyone working on High Plains Samurai and it’s all culminated in this announcement…

You can pre-order your copy of the High Plains Samurai Roleplaying Game‘s core rulebook through BackerKit until September 15th.

As we work on updating our catalogue and information on the official HPS website, you can check out BackerKit for complete details on everything that’s available, including a couple of items that will not be sold outside of this pre-order campaign. This includes a black-and-white hardcover copy of the core rulebook and this stunning 24″ by 36″ playmat featuring a full-colour map of the One Land and a collection of tables and aides to help all players at the table. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be getting everything ready for the full launch in late October 2018. Stay tuned, qi warriors!

Screen Shot 2018-08-16 at 7.29.39 AM — Our exclusive playmat is only available to Kickstarter backers and through our limited time pre-order campaign on BackerKit. Map by Jeff Brown.

HPS Legends Wins Gold at the ENnies

August 5, 2018August 7, 2018 Todd Crapper High Plains Samurai Eloy Lasanta, ENnies, Genesis of Legend Publishing, High Plain Samurai, High Plains Samurai: Legends, Jason Pitre, Third Eye Games

Broken Ruler Games has won the Gold ENnie Award with High Plains Samurai: Legends for Best Free Game! Winning gold not only means we’ve received an award but that we received the most votes out of all the awesome candidates on the list this year and that astounds us the most. This was truly unexpected and we’re honoured to have received such esteemed recognition from the roleplaying community.

You can watch the exact moment on YouTube.

Thank you to Eloy Lasanta of Third Eye Games for accepting the award on our behalf and delivering the speech (even if he didn’t curse) and for Jason Pitre of Genesis of Legend Publishing for bringing it back across the border. There is not enough thanks to give to everyone who helped make this game possible but we are going to try over these coming days and weeks. It’s an exciting time as we get ready to launch the Backerkit portion of the final release for the High Plains Samurai Roleplaying Game‘s core rulebook (stay tuned for that).

Congratulations to all of this year’s winners and nominees and a special thank you to everyone who voted for HPS.

Vote For HPS Legends Before July 22nd

July 11, 2018 Todd Crapper High Plains Samurai ENnies, High Plains Samurai: Legends, voting

If you haven’t heard yet, High Plains Samurai: Legends is nominated for a 2018 ENnie for Best Free Game and voting has just begun. As one of the more than 1,000 people who have a copy of HPS Legends sitting in their computer or tablet, we’re counting on all of you to help us turn this nomination into an award as we prepare to release the core rulebook for the High Plains Samurai Roleplaying Game.

This is Broken Ruler Games’s third product to feature on an ENnies list over the past five years (with two nominations, including this one and ScreenPlay: The Rehearsal Edition, and a Judges’ Spotlight for Killshot: The Director’s Cut in 2013). It has been our absolute pleasure to bring these games to light with the people who have made this possible, but it has also been our responsibility to ensure everyone gets a high quality game that pushes my skills as a game designer, publisher, and pushes your experiences as a fan of roleplaying games. Your vote for High Plains Samurai: Legends will help us accomplish an important goal for the future of Broken Ruler Games – to win a major award in an open-voting category. That means every vote counts.

You can vote online at ennie-awards.com.

HPS Legends Nominated for an ENnie Award!

July 4, 2018July 11, 2018 Todd Crapper High Plains Samurai ENnies, High Plain Samurai, High Plains Samurai: Legends

It is with great excitement and anticipation that we share with you this announcement. High Plains Samurai: Legends has been nominated by the ENnies as one of the past year’s Best Free Games and we are extremely humbled by this recognition. Sitting along with some great companions (or is that… competition?) such as Esper Genesis, Sage of the Goblin Hoard, and Forthright, this is the third nomination in this category for Broken Ruler Games. And we’re feeling lucky.