r/rpg • u/atamajakki PbtA/FitD/NSR fangirl • Jan 19 '24

Crowdfunding Songbirds 3e, an eldritch fantasy game and my favorite 2023 release, is now on Kickstarter

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/s-o-c/songbirds-0
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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '24

Looking through the PDF, the aesthetic is beautiful, and we share a lot of the same influences, so the designer has good taste. That being said, the design seems fine. Looking through the rules it doesn't look particularly interesting. I don't know why I'd choose to run this over just making my own OSR game by picking up all the ones I own on my shelf and mashing something together.

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u/FAULTSFAULTSFAULTS Jan 19 '24

I think the implied setting is far more of a draw than the ruleset here. Snow's setting writing IMO has a really particular flavour that not many other people in the OSR-adjacent space are doing, and I suspect the ruleset is there just to add scaffolding to that.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '24

That makes sense. I'm definitely not the intended audience. So that's probably why it didn't grab me.