My NIGHT SHIFT co-author Jason Vey has a bit to say on the design and innovation of our Modern Supernatural RPG.
You can read it about it all here: https://wastedlandsfantasy.blogspot.com/2020/09/whats-so-innovative-about-night-shift.html
Jason makes a lot of fantastic points. So many in fact that I do not feel the need to reiterate them here and now. Save where I want to talk about why I wanted to make this game. And even here I am going restate something Jason already said.
NIGHT SHIFT: Veterans of the Supernatural Wars was designed to be familiar.
For me though not just in terms of game design, in terms of the types of games I have been playing over the last 20 some odd years.
In 1999 I was facing something of a crisis of my RPG playing. I had been playing D&D for 20 years solid by that point, with minor breaks due to college, grad school, and getting married. I had bought a house and had a kid on the way. Plus in 1999 D&D was feeling tired and old. I had played some other games, namely World of Darkness and other horror games. I had recently picked back up Chill, but none of these had lit the spark the way D&D had.
That is until I found CJ Carella's WitchCraft RPG. Now here was a game I loved and it relit the long dormant fires of RPG creativity. From here I picked up Kult, found more and more games. Soon I was freelancing at Eden. Then Jason and I were working together on Buffy, Angel, Army of Darkness, and more. But D&D was still that first love. At the same time the d20 boon was happening and there were a lot of new great games coming out based on the d20 OGL and more still based on the principles of the OGL. I went from a "dark time" to a new Golden Age in just a couple of years.
NIGHT SHIFT hooks into that familiarity.
The rules are a streamlined version of the d20/OGC with an "old-school" bend.
The situations are modern supernatural, so there feels like there is a "world continuity" with games I was playing using Chill, Kult, CoC, Mage, WitchCraft, and Buffy.
I want a game that can take me to the next 20 years of gaming and I truly think this one is it.
You can get hardcovers of NIGHT SHIFT from my publisher's webpage or PDFs via DriveThruRPG.
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