Introducing: The Roles We Play (Patreon)

Here it is, your first look at the next Big Thing coming your way from Ice Bear, Inc.! It's very tentatively entitled "The Roles We Play" (hereafter RWP unless I someday confirm this as the final title - kinda not loving it, but lemme know what y'all think). 

Minor spoilers below (If you're averse to reading the back cover of the book before you read the inside.)

It's about a group of adult role players in the good ol' Not Too Distant Future (no mutants, though, sorry X-Menketeers). Their DM works at some kind of Science Place, and uses (steals) tech developed by people at his company to enhance the game he's running. In this near future time, miniaturized mental implants do a lot of the basic work of cell phones by interfacing directly with the brain. The app their DM steals connects their implants to his stolen device which enables an ultra-real virtual reality simulator to allow them to actually inhabit their characters' bodies and the world they're playing in. If such particulars matter to you, the game is a transition from their usual fantasy game to a sci-fi/fantasy version, sort of a Starfinder or a SWRPG kind of thing. 

Forewarning, there is veritably no steam in the attached pages, but I think it'll give a small sense of how it might go there. The chapters will transition from character to character, so we'll get to know all of our cast pretty well. The core group consists of one DM and five players, so we'll have considerably more front-loaded "main" characters than we've done before. It's for sure an ambitious project, and but I think I have a lot of cool ideas for it to make it fun in all the right ways, and maybe some of the wrong ones. I'm hoping we'll get to have the fantasy fun of Character Creation with an engaging cast like in TIOS with an action component... I dunno, like my handful of action moments. :)

Anyway, I will also be doing other stuff interspersed as usual. I'm starting on Ch. 3 of RWP, but as soon as I hear back from the monthly commission drawing I wanna pounce right on that. Then I have another idea I've been putting off to do somewhere in the next couple weeks among chapters.

More to come, but for now, here's this. 1.0 is the prologue, and 1.1 is chapter one. Have lovely weekends!