Role Playing Game
1992
In 1992 Bryan Talbot authorized the publication of a 'Luther Arkwright' role-playing game manual by 23rd Parallel Games, a UK company. In 2012 another RPG firm, Design Mechanism, announced the publication of a revised version of the game. An excerpt of some of the contents of the Design Mechanism RPG is available here.
The reviews I have seen for the Arkwright RPG deem it OK, but not much more than that. It likely will remain a curiosity, of interest to Arkwright fans if no one else.
The Design Mechanism version is based on their Mythras RPG system and I doubt it has much of anything in common with the earlier one except the setting. It's also a much more expansive examination of the setting and has a separate adventure book written for it as well.
ReplyDeleteT's true that its core audience is niche, but many fans of Mythras have found it useful for running other settings with similar features. I myself saw it as a big help in running a campaign set in Moebius' Airtight Garage setting.