We’ve also had guidance of Scott Tracy Griffin one of the leading scholars of his works to ensure utmost authenticity. Using a pulp-action inspired narrative variant of Modiphius’ 2d20 system, Momentum, John Carter of Mars allows players to take the role of various adventurers and heroes as they travel, battle, and romance their way across the wondrous and dangerous world known to its natives as Barsoom.
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We’ve created it under license and with the cooperation of the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of the original Barsoom novels. John Carter of Mars – Adventures on The Dying World of Barsoom is a planetary romance tabletop role-playing game. With scarcely a parting glance I turned my eyes again toward Mars, lifted my hands toward his lurid rays, and waited…” – John Carter, Gods of Mars And with that they’ve unlocked some incredible stretch goals, including a beautiful leather-bound Collector’s edition, miniature packs, and more.
So far the Kickstarter is wildly successful, coming in at almost $130,000 of their asked for ~$27,000. They’ve got the book in Layout, so much of the waiting is kind of already taken care of–probably due in part to the fact that they’re propping this up on their Momentum system, which you can see on display in Star Trek Adventures and the Mutant Chronicles. What’s interesting about this Kickstarter is that it’s mostly done.
Which, incidentally, one of the stretch goals (that they have already reached) is aa conversion kit for Modiphius’ own Conan game. Players can take the roles of duelists, Beastmasters, assassins, even heroes from Earth–the whole thing feels a little more savage. The team behind the game definitely knows what makes the Barsoom Saga tick–looking through their Kickstarter, you’ll find the same sort of retro-sci-fi concepts making their way into the game.
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That’s right, the pulpy, sword-and-planet adventures that take you through the dying world of Barsoom, full of Martian princes and princesses, lush alien landscapes, ferocious beasts, irksome betrayals, and then some. Modiphius is bringing the world of Edgar Rice Burrough’s John Carter of Mars–so, Mars–to your tabletop thanks to Kickstarter. This collection includes all of the books in the series:Īll in one book,elegantly formatted for ease of use and enjoyment on your Kindle device.John Carter of Mars is a setting rife with adventure, now you can bring the pulp stories of Barsoom to a tabletop near you. The Barsoom series, where John Carter in the late 1800s is mysteriously transported from Earth to a Mars suffering from dwindling resources, has been cited by many well known science fiction writers as having inspired and motivated them in their youth, as well as by key scientists involved in both space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life.Elements of the books have been adapted by many writers, in novels, short stories, comics, television and film In The Plurality of Inhabited Worlds and Lumen, he further speculates about plant people and other creatures on far away planets, elements that would later appear in the Barsoom stories. John Carter is transported to Mars in a way described by Flammarion in Urania (1889), where a man from earth is transported to Mars as an astral body where he wakes up to a lower gravity, two moons, strange plants and animals and several races of advanced humans. Writers and science popularizers like Camille Flammarion were convinced that Mars was at a later stage of evolution than Earth and therefore much drier,took the ideas farther and published books like Les Terres du Ciel (1884), which contained illustrations of a planet covered with canals.Burroughs gives credits to him in his writings, and goes as far as to say that he based his vision of Mars on that of Flammarion. The world of Barsoom is a romantic vision of a dying Mars.
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The first five novels are in the public domain in U.S., and the entire series is free around the world on Project Gutenberg Australia, but the books are still under copyright laws in most of the rest of the world. Ten sequels followed over the next three decades, further extending his vision of Barsoom and adding other characters. The first Barsoom tale was serialized as Under the Moons of Mars in 1912, and published as a novel as A Princess of Mars in 1917. Barsoom is a fictional representation of the planet Mars created by American pulp fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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