Adventure

Hello faithful gamers, Cap here, fresh from the play-test of the new and improved Untold! Now, before you get your undies in a wad, this is not a 4e-ism, but rather a streamlining improvement of the core Untold rule set.

We’ll get to that, let’s begin at the beginning…

Beginning of last week I received a call from a breathless Brannon “Ashy” Hollingsworth, begging me to come down to Alabama because my expertise was desperately needed to help guide this pivotal play-test. It came out more like: “If you ain’t got nothing going on, we’re playing Untold this weekend.” With such an invitation I set out Friday morning for an odyssey of Homeric proportions. I.E. I took a wrong turn at Albuquerque and drove the ENTIRE interior of Alabama!

So, now you know about Untold, and you get to demo the game. The hardest question you will now be hit with is “What character shall I play?” For some of you, as it was for me, this question seems like a simple one. You have already chosen your character. Perhaps in other games, you have always played the barbarian. You read about Toa, and you know he is your character. Or maybe you have always played a magic user, you choose a L’na. Or maybe you like the idea of the Kliks because they are somewhat unique to an RPG. But is this character really you?

Perhaps not.

"The simple fact of the matter is that I loved the game and would love to play it again"

Captain Blood here! Cap to all my convention buddies! Ashy asked me to give my impressions of Mobicon this year and more importantly the Mobicon debut of Untold the Game. Off the bat: it was a fantastic weekend! I have not had so much fun running a game in a very long time. I thank all my players for that.

Interest in Untold began at a high when we debuted the game at Imagicon 2009 and it's being doing nothing but growing by leaps and bounds even since! We've received so much feedback and interest that we can barely capture it all, much less answer all of the wonderful emails we've been receiving! (But - responses are coming, so never fear -- we will get back to you)! So, in order to make sure that nothing falls through the cracks, we've enlisted some help!

Wandering Men Studios has returned from this years Mobicon and while we're reeling with sleep-deprivation and near exhaustion, we could not be more happy! Untold was a major hit at the con and we were running so many demo games that we had to recruit minions to run our booth for us!

We met Ben at Mobicon 2008, but he came back for Mobicon 2009 and was able to get in on a demo game of Untold. Afterward, he agreed to sit down with us for a brief podcast. Here's what he had to say about the game.

"I got to playtest Untold at Mobicon, and I loved it! I've had experience with many different games including D&D, MTG, L5R, and much more. But I have to admit that this game is probably going to become a favorite. It combines everything that I love about RPG's and makes it easier to set up and play. You can make the game as simply or as complex as you want, and you can create your own character much the same way you can in D&D. The beauty of this is, however, no books! Everything is layed out in card format. This is wonderful for all characters from spellcasters to barbarians.