SuperAge

• Genre: Science Fantasy
• Setting: Modern
• Gameplay: Deep Storytelling   
• Mechanics: Dice Pool d6
• Publisher: Strange Machine Games

Highlights

1. Allows for a very narrative driven character build based on archetypes with unique combinations of powers
2. Core book comes with full rules, pregenerated playable characters, a significant number of npcs, and a full starter adventure

Official Site: SuperAge

Buy it: Strange Machine Games, Indie Press Revolution, Drive Thru RPG

Tales from the Loop

• Genre: Sci-Fi
• Setting: Modern
• Gameplay: Leans Storytelling   
• Mechanics: Dice Pool d6
• Publisher: Free League

Highlights

1. Incredibly evocative artwork of a 1980’s with weird science
2. Ideal for one-shots but linked stories can lead to campaigns
3. Has specialty dice, but standard d6’s of two colors work as well.

Tales from the Loop is a science fiction adventure game set in the 1980, where you play a group of kids who stumble across inexplicable technology that will change your life forever. Players use a set of d6s and build a dice pool based on their attributes and skills to over come challenges. The game uses a failing-forward storytelling mechanic such that they can still “fail” a role, but that doesn’t necessarily indicate pure failure. Rather they can choose to take on a condition to move past the obstacle. This makes the game much more forgiving for new players, as well as providing a method for narrative feedback and roleplay fodder between the GM and the players. The game has also been developed as a live-action series on Amazon Prime, which serves as a great jumping off point for groups who want to know more about the world of this game.

Official Site: Tales from the Loop

Buy it: Free League, Modiphius, Drive Thru RPG