Brushfire RPG Faction Preview
October 7, 2011 by dracs
On the Lamb have got some concept art showing a few of the races which will be playable in the upcoming Historia Rodentia Role Playing Game. Check these adventurous critters out.
These guys belong to the Civitan Trade Alliance, one of the four factions which we have to look forward to. Personally, I rather like the idea of playing as a Gerbil (jumping mouse) or Chipmunk.
Hopefully the rules will allow us to ride about on one of these.
So guys, would you be tempted to play as any of these? Are there any other animals you might like to see? I'm rather holding out for a Tree Frog myself.
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Hopefully, the rules wil be better and more sketchy than the Mouseguard RPG…
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It’ll be using a slightly modified version of Mongoose’s ‘Legend’ system, which is a cleaned up version of the fantastic RuneQuest II system.
Well, that should do it, then !
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If Andy wants to start assembling and showing off his Brushfire models, I might be inclined to pass along a Playtest copy to the BoW staffers…
I agree, the Jumping Mouse has a great feel of rogue to it. Looking forward to this.
Never thought i’d say this but that capybara looks like a badass
I’m with you on that @frozenpyro71 he looks like he bash your head in rather easy.
Can I play a flying squirrel? This RPG seems light hearted and can be fun with some friends as well as family that never played RPG’s. I’m keeping my eye on this.
Flying Squirrels will be in a later book, when we cover the nation of ‘Chugoku’.
Don’t worry Sam, one of the mount choices is indeed a Kiwi. Also a Gerbil is a different species from a jumping mouse, Gerbils will be previewed at a later date with the rest of the Vandalands faction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerbil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_mouse
Erm, is that Shrew Hussar meant to be riding a Kiwi? It looks like one, but the nostrils are on the wrong end of the beak. /naturenerd
Yes, it is meant to be a Kiwi. That artist has been sacked. We had a sculpt of the Shrew Hussar done up which featured a much more accurate Kiwi (The Green was even posted here on BoW), but USPS lost it. So it has to be resculpted…
Ahh, just found the pic. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a kewl looking concept and could be an equally kewl model.
As for it being from an ‘Australian’ faction, it wouldn’t be the first time those sheep bothers have stolen something from us Kiwis and claimed it as their own! :p
Its actually from the German faction, though they were brought to the region by an Echidna.
The ‘Australia’ faction will contain elements from Aus/Taz, and NZ; but its just easier to say Australia… (most folks don’t realize the separation) Much like how the ‘German’ faction contains elements from Germany, Prussia, Norway, Sweden; and the ‘Spainish’ faction has bits of Portugal, Italy, and South America.