A lot of effort went into it, helped along by the fact that there are 11 books and a substantial number of comics to build off of. The world-building aspects of the JCOM RPG are genuinely quite good. Much of the art tries to capture the proto-steampunk aesthetic of early 20th century speculative fiction So let’s dive into that RPG itself and see what’s good and what’s bad about it! A Living, Breathing (But Still Dying) World And John Carter himself is a Confederate veteran which…yeah.įortunately though, in an RPG we don’t have to deal with John himself, which means we can avoid the more openly problematic parts of the source. Being set on a different planet means that there’s…less overt racism at least, but there’s a decent amount of unfortunate coding in the races of Barsoom. It has some flaws, being pulp fiction from the early to mid 1900’s. He also encounters the various races and creatures living there, who call the world Barsoom, and becomes a savior to them. Once there he finds that, due to Mars’s lower gravity, he is abnormally strong and agile on the red planet. John Carter is a veteran soldier from Earth in the 1800’s who winds up getting transported to Mars. It’s just the first in Modiphius’s ambitious line of Barsoom adaptations for the tabletop, which also includes an extensive line of miniatures and a boardgame: John Carter: Warlord of Mars.įor those who don’t know about this particular franchise, I’ll give you a quick rundown.
The RPG successfully Kickstarted in 2018, making over 10x its goal.
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Alright everyone! I’m back, with another Licensed RPG review! This time we’re going to be talking about the RPG Modiphius has made based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’s second most famous series (and his best in my opinion): John Carter of Mars (JCOM for short).
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