Two years ago I backed my second ever KickStarter. Following the Battletech one that I had backed about a year before (and arrived this year in March) it was again by a large company that was already producing it, so fairly risk free.
I picked up the original TMNT & Other Strangeness in about 1989 and my friends and I never played beyond creating a couple of characters. It was right during the beginning period of the original TMNT cartoon of the same era. Still it sat on my shelf as a bit of a confusing RPG. It’s a very different set of creation and gameplay compared to D&D that we were most familiar.
So finding a new release I was interested and ended up backing more than I had planned. These have finally arrived. I have not yet had much of a chance to look through them, but they look very well made and a big step up from the softcover original I have. This time they are full hardcover, full colour books, similar in heft and size to the 2024 D&D rulebooks.
Inside, the books are a compilation of more than one book, so you end up with almost all of the original released books and expansions across the two books. I only ever had the base book.
I chose the alternative covers, a KS exclusive.
Later I added the DM screen, which has slip in panels on the inside. My idea is to use it in other games too, like D&D, I just slip in new panels.
I also chose a dice tray, and eventually the mutagen dice set, complete in a TCRI cannister.
These dice are larger than standard, and the glowing, sparkling material inside moves about as you shake and roll them. They seem to roll nicely. We will see how lucky they are later.
Over the past few days, as delivery became more certain, I was talking about the RPG with some others and have come up with an adventure idea. So I’m busy writing that up at the moment.
I will look through the books in the coming days and see what I think of the actual contents.
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