ELEX is a handcrafted action role-playing experience from the award-winning creators of the Gothic series, set in a brand new post-apocalyptic Science Fantasy universe that puts players into a huge seamless game world full of original characters, mutated creatures, deep moral choices and powerful action.

Madness Meters have been renamed in UA3 to Shock Gauges. They're now the core of your character, giving you your basic % values for a series of paired skills in some ways inspired by Greg's work on A Dirty World and Better Angels. No attributes any more. However, the game's rules still work the same way: %, flip/flops, etc.

    So far it's looking really, really hot. I'm excited to be developing this for next year's Kickstarter. If you liked what we did with Feng Shui 2, you're going to also like this. Well, if you also like games of post-post-modern surreal cosmic urban horror fantasy with magick and blood and avatars of immortal archetypes.

GenCon brochure is out. New line is Deviant: The ???

You woke up…different. Someone changed you; on a slab, an operating table,
an altar. By luck or by fate, you escaped. Hunted by the ones who made you, they hold all the cards.
Except one thing, what they don’t know is that a fire burns within you because what they did wasn’t
right. What they don’t know is that YOU’RE hunting THEM. Deviant: The ??? presents a game where
the victims of experiments band together to bring down the monolithic organizations that twisted and
warped them.

Sounds like a really angry version of Promethean.

Pelgrane does vietnam+Delta Green.

Like. said at the panel, Deviant makes me wish "Cronenburg" was a verb.

It's about people who have been violated and turned into generally-low-with-potential-for-explosivly-high powered body-horror supernatural beings fighting the Conspiracies that created them. A rich vein of stories we haven't really tapped yet.

If you were disappointed by Beast being hugh powered and not visibly monstrous to bystanders, Deviant is the exact opposite.

So GenCon is over now, and I'm in my room somewhere near Indy airport ready for the long trip home tomorrow.

Deviant, then.

Deviant is about people turned into supernatural beings by human actors - their transformation is "messy" compared to other beings, and they don't end up with an entirely stable "template". Most are the result of human conspiracies, cults, mad science, and other groups. Even those whose change was self-inflicted are sought as assets. PC Deviants are the ones who've escaped the clutches of their conspiracy - for now - and have a thirst for revenge.

Deviant is Sense8, Orphan Black, Fringe, The Fly, Hulk, Guyver, Tetsuo The Iron Man, Akira, Hollow Man, Jekyll, Videodrome, Existenz, Scanners, Dark Angel, several versions of Beauty and the Beast, John Doe, Kyle XY... One thing I quickly realized after Rose and Rich handed me the blurb you've seen in the catalog and asked me to make a game out of it is how much inspirational media there is for it, which we've not tapped so far.

Also yes, many (but, crucially, not all) powers will be physically obvious, and yes, because the bulk of their foes are normal (albeit organized) people, they will trend to being the street level. The potential for Akira or Dr Manhatten-style blowouts will be there, but most Deviants will be the lowest-powered full game protagonists bar Hunters.