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Help Machine Age Games Recover From Being Robbed – GAMING

Published Thu, 26 Dec 2013 17:00:19 -0600

Last updated Thu, 26 Dec 2013 23:33:26 -0600

By Alasdair Stuart

David A. Hill Jr. and Filamena Young run Machine Age Games. David and Filamena are Machine Age Games in fact, and have produced consistently innovative, envelope pushing, fun tabletop RPGs for the last several years. All their games are great but Flatpack, a post, post-apocalyptic game of optimism and rebuilding a particular standout. If SF isn't your bag, then their immortals RPG, Amaranthine, or their excellent fantasy game Farewell to Fear are well worth checking out too.

They were robbed a few days ago. The items stolen included their children's Christmas presents and their own computers. They're professional writers so the loss of the computers was a particularly huge blow, on top of the trauma of the burglary.

Earlier today, the roleplaying industry rallied around them. A new Bundle of Holding went live earlier today covering the Machine Age back catalog. Pay $3.95, you get Flatpack, their excellent teen mecha RPG Apotheosis Drive X and a bunch of small, free games. Pay $13.95 or more and you get basically their entire back catalog.

Indie RPGs have been getting progressively more interesting for a while and David and Filamena are a huge part of that. If you're even a little interested in the field, whether as a gamer, GM or would be designer yourself, pick up the bundle here and grab some of the best games on the market from two of the best voices.

Alasdair Stuart is a journalist, podcaster, RPG module writer and increasingly proficient baker. He blogs about genre fiction, food, martial arts and all sort of other stuff at alasdairstuart.com. He talks about all that, and more, on twitter at @AlasdairStuart

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