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This is a new game from a new publisher, based in the Chicagoland area. It is based on the core book, which I got through DriveThruRpg.
Emergence provides a vibrant, interesting world populated by numerous races and groups as the stage for your adventures. Incredible attention to detail has gone into every aspect of this world. Giving every area its own flavor to experience and challenges to meet helps players immerse themselves in the world and find a place for their characters within it, both during and after character gen.
Players have a wide range of options for making interesting characters. In Emergence, backstories are not mere bits of fluff that may or may not have anything to do with a character's actual build - a character's background is an integral part of character creation, having real mechanical impact on play in addition to fleshing out the narrative. This approach, combined with the detail-rich presentation of the campaign world, motivates players to think through their character's origins, development, and goals.
To match the fantasy/sci-fi/modern genre blend of the world itself, Emergence offers myriad possibilities to the player for creating a huge variety of character builds. While the background provides the base for the character mechanically and narratively, the skills, talents, and equipment all provide options for both specialization and diversification, as the player desires.
The dice system was designed with ease and speed in mind. There are not multiple types of dice to track, roll, or interpret. There are no ever-expanding dice pools that become cumbersomely large as your character advances. There is one statistically reliable dice roll that makes unusually successful or unsuccessful rolls just that – unusual. In many games, critical successes or failures are no rarer than any other die result. Because this is not the case in Emergence, they take on greater importance and feel more special when they do happen.
Emergence is an all-around unique game – the setting, the character options, and the dice system. It’s a welcome and refreshing change from the other systems I have seen. So, try something new. If you like fun, chances are you’ll like Emergence.
Their official website is playemergence (dot com). They can also be found on Facebook as Emergence Roleplaying Game.
Emergence provides a vibrant, interesting world populated by numerous races and groups as the stage for your adventures. Incredible attention to detail has gone into every aspect of this world. Giving every area its own flavor to experience and challenges to meet helps players immerse themselves in the world and find a place for their characters within it, both during and after character gen.
Players have a wide range of options for making interesting characters. In Emergence, backstories are not mere bits of fluff that may or may not have anything to do with a character's actual build - a character's background is an integral part of character creation, having real mechanical impact on play in addition to fleshing out the narrative. This approach, combined with the detail-rich presentation of the campaign world, motivates players to think through their character's origins, development, and goals.
To match the fantasy/sci-fi/modern genre blend of the world itself, Emergence offers myriad possibilities to the player for creating a huge variety of character builds. While the background provides the base for the character mechanically and narratively, the skills, talents, and equipment all provide options for both specialization and diversification, as the player desires.
The dice system was designed with ease and speed in mind. There are not multiple types of dice to track, roll, or interpret. There are no ever-expanding dice pools that become cumbersomely large as your character advances. There is one statistically reliable dice roll that makes unusually successful or unsuccessful rolls just that – unusual. In many games, critical successes or failures are no rarer than any other die result. Because this is not the case in Emergence, they take on greater importance and feel more special when they do happen.
Emergence is an all-around unique game – the setting, the character options, and the dice system. It’s a welcome and refreshing change from the other systems I have seen. So, try something new. If you like fun, chances are you’ll like Emergence.
Their official website is playemergence (dot com). They can also be found on Facebook as Emergence Roleplaying Game.
