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 A fur-noir game from the makers of Ironclaw…

Urban Jungle: Anthropomorphic Tabletop Role-Play

Kickstarter ending 11/8/15

Urban Jungle is Sanguine Games’ latest entry into furry tabletop role play, and it’s unusual in a number of different ways. First, it’s a new anthro setting by Sanguine Games, which alone is pretty exciting–their “Ironclaw” world has been leaning heavily on reprints, and “Myriad Song” is an interesting space opera setting, but doesn’t really target their furry base.

Secondly, fans of Ironclaw and Myriad Song will be able to jump right into character creation, since Urban Jungle uses the Cardinal System. Since Ironclaw is a solid gateway to tabletop RPG for many furries, this opens up a new world that isn’t medieval fantasy. Modern role-playing is, literally, a different world, a new world with a lot of new story potential.

Thirdly, the setting itself—anthro characters aside—is unusual. Jazz age games, Prohibition-era stories, and stat blocks for flappers? They’re rare. The game that comes closest would be the dark horror “Cthulhu” setting, which gets frequent Tabletop RPG treatment because that’s when Cthulhu’s creator H.P. Lovecraft lived and wrote. Interestingly, it’s a strong time for furry fiction, with Blacksad, Lackadaisy, and the steampunky Grandville in or around that time period.

Urban Jungle is set in the rise of “gangster as hero” in the American popular perception. Smugglers with contraband alcohol hiding from the law. The rise of organized crime brings tommyguns and sleazy charm into our fictions. Jaded flappers shoot their husbands and sing about it for an hour and a half, and all that jazz.

It looks like Urban Jungle is a one-off project, a single book to slide alongside your Ironclaw collection, so grab it while you can! It’s not a book that’s going to sit in stores. It is the sort of project that crowdfunding makes possible—Kickstarter is a great place to source one-off projects and limited release gems. And the Stretch Goals open up more quirky one-offs from the pulp era—Cthulhu (of cthorse) (that was funnier if you know how to pronounce “Cthulhu”), Buck Rogers, and an “It Came From the Drive In” series that gets a little fourth-wall-breaky, maybe a little more in the spirit of “Big Trouble In Little China” than “Great Gatsby.”

Sanguine has a very strong track record with Kickstarter projects, lots of success stories and an EXCELLENT history of treating their backers well. I had the chance to sit in on a talk by Sanguine’s CEO Rafferty, he really knows his Kickstarter! Consistent elements of Sanguine kickstarters are a low and attainable goal (in many ways, these are as much “preorder” campaigns as fundraisers), and a general no-frills approach to backer rewards. There’s a lot more ways to get your character onto the pages of Urban Jungle, with cameo opportunities still available, so that’s a plus, but you aren’t going to be able to fill your pockets with swag. That’s neither a good or bad thing, though personally I don’t want to spend dollars on tee shirts and buttons that don’t add to game play.

In some ways, the “lowball” approach is one of the negatives of Sanguine Press. Their projects tend to have a 1995 feel, black and white with coarse pages. The modern TRPG industry is a lot more style over substance (ideally, you can have style AND substance, but mainstream gaming has gone for glossy color illos.) Sanguine makes a joke about it—of course in a Noir setting the illustrations would be black and white!—but to my mind it’s more of a dated look and “keep the cost low” publishing decision. Games like HC SVNT DRACONES show that in the era of print on demand gaming you can have great graphical content without breaking your personal bank. But the arguments about reasonable sales price and reasonable publisher profit are hard ones. There are no right answers. However, in the current indie RPG scene Sanguine is going to be strong inside the fandom, but at a disadvantage outside of it. The game isn’t terribly inviting if you didn’t already drink the furry kool-aid. My $.02 anyway.

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Hello everyone! I don't use this often, but I figured I'd try and reach out to whoever's interested for input and help. I'm a polyglot srgl, and I've studied linguistics for many years, and regardless of how hard I search for it, all I can't find an actual sergal language (asides from Japanese or a faux language). So, because I couldn't find such an important part of culture for sergals, I've been on and off designing a language/languages for Vilous as a hobby

So far, this is what I have:

-An alphabet of 18 characters (subject to change). I've been keeping in mind the limitations of speech because of the structure of the mouth and the slender tongue.

-A writing style similar to old Mongolian (top down) that can be written with either a reed pen-esq device, or a brush.

-4 forms of punctuation (again, subject to change).

-Ideas for syntax, grammar, and lexicon, though nothing seriously in practice.

If anyone has any ideas or help, please don't be shy to shout something out. I have plans to add things such as dialects, linguistic evolution (from pictographs and ideographs), styles of writing, and more. But all in due time. Images of the design so far

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For me, I have no idea. I literally just came up with it on the spot. Possibly a corruption of katsu?

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I was laying in bed this morning and I had one of my 'laying around ideas'. It went a little like this; "Hmmm, I wonder if there is a furry alphabet." Spends the next ten minuets searching various sub-reddits for various things and comes up with nothing "I wonder if we could make one"

Because of my lack in creativity I wondered if other people had any ideas of what each letter in the furry alphabet would stand for.

For Example: F - Furry

I am looking forward to see if we can get a whole alphabet :D

(I apologise if there already is one)

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