Another two bundles - City of Mist
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ffuturesTwo bundles for City of Mist, "the comic-book epic-myth neo-noir detective RPG" from Son of Oak Studio. One is a repeat from 2021, the other is all-new.
City of Mist Essentials
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/2023CityOfMist
This revived August 2021 City of Mist Essentials Bundle is one of two offers in progress featuring City of Mist, the comic-book epic-myth neo-noir detective RPG from Son of Oak Studio about ordinary people with legendary powers in a mystery-shrouded metropolis. The new companion offer, City of Mist Unveiled, adds recent sourcebooks and adventures.
In City of Mist, myths and legends are born into modern-day people. Hardboiled detectives and cunning mob lords hold the mythic powers of characters like Alice in Wonderland, the Monkey King, and Gilgamesh. This City is teeming with strange places infused with modern mythology, Mist-shrouded alleys lead to cavernous fairy halls. Legend-powered villains, crooks, and psychos like the Snow Queen, Jade Emperor, and Gingerbread Witch run rampant.
Your City of Mist character is a one-of-a-kind combination of a myth, legend, or fairy tale with a modern-day walk of life – detective, vigilante, homemaker. Described using tags, your abilities, gear, and personality are completely unconstricted by fixed lists of classes, powers, or attributes. Whether you play a cynical private eye or a back-alley hero wannabe, it's up to you and your crew to unravel the mysteries and conspiracies hidden behind the Mist, a mystical veil that prevents the unwitting City residents from seeing legendary powers. Face off against other modern-day legends, even while you struggle to balance everyday life with the Mythos inside you.
Using a simple but powerful narrative system based on the Apocalypse Engine, and custom tag-based motivation and advancement rules, City of Mist combines the super-detective mood of Daredevil and Jessica Jones with mythic themes out of the Fables comics and Neil Gaiman's American Gods. The excellent City of Mist website has lots of background, free downloads, how-to-play videos, and reviews, including a nice November 2020 video review by Bundle friend Dave Thaumavore.
This bargain-priced revival once again brings you .PDFs of the complete City of Mist Player's Guide and MC Toolkit core rulebooks (funded in a big August 2018 Kickstarter campaign), the All-Seeing Eye Investigations Starter Set (from a November 2019 Kickstarter), and many player character playbooks – everything you need for a complete urban fantasy campaign in the mean streets of this haunted city. We provide each title complete in .PDF. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices. (By publisher request, the DriveThruRPG versions of these files are inobtrusively watermarked.)
Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) goes to these two City of Mist offers' designated charity, Direct Relief. Direct Relief sends protective gear and critical care medications to health workers, with emergency deliveries to medical facilities across the US and to regional response agencies across the world.
The total retail value of the titles in this revived August 2021 City of Mist Essentials Bundle is US$99. Customers who pay just US$24.95 get all thirteen titles in this revived offer's Core Collection (retail value $99) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete All-Seeing Eye Investigations Starter Set (retail price $15), Player's Guide and MC Toolkit core rulebooks (retail $20 each), the MC Screen (retail $10), the Location Maps (retail $10), and – newly added for this revival – eight playbooks (retail $3 each): Bassie, Ben "Baby New" Newman, Bodhi, Ghostface, Hecate, Lance Sullivan, Mairead Conroy, and Scarlet.
(Customers who purchased this City of Mist offer during its original August 2021 run also receive the eight newly added playbooks automatically on their Wizard's Cabinet download page and in their linked DriveThruRPG Library. This is their reward for buying early.)
This is one of two offers in progress that feature City of Mist, the comic-book epic-myth neo-noir detective RPG from Son of Oak Studio about ordinary people with legendary powers in a mystery-shrouded metropolis. This new City of Mist Unveiled Bundle presents recent sourcebooks and adventures. The companion revival from August 2021, City of Mist Essentials, has the core rulebooks, playbooks, and play aids. If you're new to the game, start there. We provide each title complete in .PDF. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices. (By publisher request, the DriveThruRPG versions of these files are inobtrusively watermarked.)
Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) goes to these two City of Mist offers' designated charity, Direct Relief. Direct Relief sends protective gear and critical care medications to health workers, with emergency deliveries to medical facilities across the US and to regional response agencies across the world.
The total retail value of the titles in this City of Mist Unveiled Bundle is US$119. Customers who pay just US$17.95 get all seven titles in our Locations Collection (retail value $73) as DRM-free ebooks, including the large sourcebook Shadows & Showdowns (retail price $25) along with six District mini-sourcebooks (retail $8 each): Fortune Row, Independence, La Colonia de Sombras, Sunken City, Tourist Trap, and The Undertrash.
Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $29.95 to start, also get our entire Adventures Collection with four more titles worth an additional $46, including the nine-adventure anthology Nights of Payne Town (retail price $25), the City of Mist Crime Board City Map(retail $13), and two Small-Time Villain character writeups (retail $4 each): Puppet Show and Stone Cold Beauty.
Son of Oak Studio is taking preorders for the cyberpunk future of City of Mist – Tokyo:Otherscape. Adapted from the City of Mist narrative engine, :Otherscape is a mythic cyberpunk TTRPG set in a dystopian future where Mythoi have returned to haunt our world, yet most of humanity is oblivious, drowned in cybernetic Noise. Greedy corporations, vile crime syndicates, and rogue government agencies vie for control over mythic Sources, while the PCs – hired guns, fixers, Source smugglers, and freedom fighters – become embroiled in the magical arms race.
When the original bundle was on offer in 2021 I thought that it was a little pretentious, trying to reconcile a lot of different themes and possibly falling between them to some extent. Having taken a look at both bundles I still feel that way; like a lot of games, it tries to combine several genres, and maybe doesn't do justice to all of them. But that may just be my personal preference, other referees could find that it has a lot to offer.
City of Mist Essentials
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/2023CityOfMist
This revived August 2021 City of Mist Essentials Bundle is one of two offers in progress featuring City of Mist, the comic-book epic-myth neo-noir detective RPG from Son of Oak Studio about ordinary people with legendary powers in a mystery-shrouded metropolis. The new companion offer, City of Mist Unveiled, adds recent sourcebooks and adventures.In City of Mist, myths and legends are born into modern-day people. Hardboiled detectives and cunning mob lords hold the mythic powers of characters like Alice in Wonderland, the Monkey King, and Gilgamesh. This City is teeming with strange places infused with modern mythology, Mist-shrouded alleys lead to cavernous fairy halls. Legend-powered villains, crooks, and psychos like the Snow Queen, Jade Emperor, and Gingerbread Witch run rampant.
Your City of Mist character is a one-of-a-kind combination of a myth, legend, or fairy tale with a modern-day walk of life – detective, vigilante, homemaker. Described using tags, your abilities, gear, and personality are completely unconstricted by fixed lists of classes, powers, or attributes. Whether you play a cynical private eye or a back-alley hero wannabe, it's up to you and your crew to unravel the mysteries and conspiracies hidden behind the Mist, a mystical veil that prevents the unwitting City residents from seeing legendary powers. Face off against other modern-day legends, even while you struggle to balance everyday life with the Mythos inside you.
Using a simple but powerful narrative system based on the Apocalypse Engine, and custom tag-based motivation and advancement rules, City of Mist combines the super-detective mood of Daredevil and Jessica Jones with mythic themes out of the Fables comics and Neil Gaiman's American Gods. The excellent City of Mist website has lots of background, free downloads, how-to-play videos, and reviews, including a nice November 2020 video review by Bundle friend Dave Thaumavore.
This bargain-priced revival once again brings you .PDFs of the complete City of Mist Player's Guide and MC Toolkit core rulebooks (funded in a big August 2018 Kickstarter campaign), the All-Seeing Eye Investigations Starter Set (from a November 2019 Kickstarter), and many player character playbooks – everything you need for a complete urban fantasy campaign in the mean streets of this haunted city. We provide each title complete in .PDF. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices. (By publisher request, the DriveThruRPG versions of these files are inobtrusively watermarked.)
Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) goes to these two City of Mist offers' designated charity, Direct Relief. Direct Relief sends protective gear and critical care medications to health workers, with emergency deliveries to medical facilities across the US and to regional response agencies across the world.
The total retail value of the titles in this revived August 2021 City of Mist Essentials Bundle is US$99. Customers who pay just US$24.95 get all thirteen titles in this revived offer's Core Collection (retail value $99) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete All-Seeing Eye Investigations Starter Set (retail price $15), Player's Guide and MC Toolkit core rulebooks (retail $20 each), the MC Screen (retail $10), the Location Maps (retail $10), and – newly added for this revival – eight playbooks (retail $3 each): Bassie, Ben "Baby New" Newman, Bodhi, Ghostface, Hecate, Lance Sullivan, Mairead Conroy, and Scarlet.(Customers who purchased this City of Mist offer during its original August 2021 run also receive the eight newly added playbooks automatically on their Wizard's Cabinet download page and in their linked DriveThruRPG Library. This is their reward for buying early.)
Son of Oak Studio is taking preorders for the cyberpunk future of City of Mist– Tokyo:Otherscape. Adapted from the City of Mist narrative engine, :Otherscape is a mythic cyberpunk TTRPG set in a dystopian future where Mythoi have returned to haunt our world, yet most of humanity is oblivious, drowned in cybernetic Noise. Greedy corporations, vile crime syndicates, and rogue government agencies vie for control over mythic Sources, while the PCs – hired guns, fixers, Source smugglers, and freedom fighters – become embroiled in the magical arms race.
City of Mist Unveiled
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Unveiled
This is one of two offers in progress that feature City of Mist, the comic-book epic-myth neo-noir detective RPG from Son of Oak Studio about ordinary people with legendary powers in a mystery-shrouded metropolis. This new City of Mist Unveiled Bundle presents recent sourcebooks and adventures. The companion revival from August 2021, City of Mist Essentials, has the core rulebooks, playbooks, and play aids. If you're new to the game, start there. We provide each title complete in .PDF. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices. (By publisher request, the DriveThruRPG versions of these files are inobtrusively watermarked.)Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) goes to these two City of Mist offers' designated charity, Direct Relief. Direct Relief sends protective gear and critical care medications to health workers, with emergency deliveries to medical facilities across the US and to regional response agencies across the world.
The total retail value of the titles in this City of Mist Unveiled Bundle is US$119. Customers who pay just US$17.95 get all seven titles in our Locations Collection (retail value $73) as DRM-free ebooks, including the large sourcebook Shadows & Showdowns (retail price $25) along with six District mini-sourcebooks (retail $8 each): Fortune Row, Independence, La Colonia de Sombras, Sunken City, Tourist Trap, and The Undertrash.Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $29.95 to start, also get our entire Adventures Collection with four more titles worth an additional $46, including the nine-adventure anthology Nights of Payne Town (retail price $25), the City of Mist Crime Board City Map(retail $13), and two Small-Time Villain character writeups (retail $4 each): Puppet Show and Stone Cold Beauty.
Son of Oak Studio is taking preorders for the cyberpunk future of City of Mist – Tokyo:Otherscape. Adapted from the City of Mist narrative engine, :Otherscape is a mythic cyberpunk TTRPG set in a dystopian future where Mythoi have returned to haunt our world, yet most of humanity is oblivious, drowned in cybernetic Noise. Greedy corporations, vile crime syndicates, and rogue government agencies vie for control over mythic Sources, while the PCs – hired guns, fixers, Source smugglers, and freedom fighters – become embroiled in the magical arms race.
When the original bundle was on offer in 2021 I thought that it was a little pretentious, trying to reconcile a lot of different themes and possibly falling between them to some extent. Having taken a look at both bundles I still feel that way; like a lot of games, it tries to combine several genres, and maybe doesn't do justice to all of them. But that may just be my personal preference, other referees could find that it has a lot to offer.
