I Love the Corps - an action, horror and military sci-fi RPG
A project in Birmingham, UK by Christopher Dean000days
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Play as a colonial marine grunt in the year 2450, in a 1D6 tabletop RPG system of scene building, great danger and terrifying horror.
Backers: 120
Average Pledge Per Backer: £62
Funded: £7,421 of £4,100
Dates: Aug 12th -> Sep 11th (30 days)
Project By: Christopher Dean
Backers: 120
Average Pledge Per Backer: £62
Funded: £7,421 of £4,100
Dates: Aug 12th -> Sep 11th (30 days)
Project By: Christopher Dean
£7,421
current pledge level
Last Updated: September 11 @ 08:02 -0400 GMT
181%
of goal
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Latest News
Latest One-Shot Recaps 
September 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Here are some game breakdowns from some promo games I ran for entirely new people at the Manaleak shop in Birmingham. https://ilovethecorps.wordpress.com/2016/09/10/latest-iltc-promo-games/ (Read More)
SHORT, CONTROLLED BURSTS- Episode 2
September 8th - via: kickstarter.com
This game gives you a decent showcase of the rules and the dark, twisted tone. Horrors? Check. Narrative scenes? Check. Social COMBAT!!? Check. Brutal fist fights? Check, check, check. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0gxap-Nfgo (Read More)
SHORT, CONTROLLED BURSTS, Episode 1
September 8th - via: kickstarter.com
All right marines, here is the first episode of the campaign we are filming, in action. It features only one instance of rules, but is a good scene setter. I apologise for any bits where people go quiet or block other people; we are new at this whole... (Read More)
Quickstart and Character Progress
September 5th - via: kickstarter.com
Hope e-mailed the Quickstart and character packs to me this evening as promised. Unfortunately I had a pre-arranged promotional game, so have not been able to send them just as yet, as I only just got home and it is running very late. I will get onto... (Read More)
More character videos!
September 5th - via: kickstarter.com
Here are the other three characters for the SHORT, CONTROLLED BURSTS series and Within campaign. Screwball and Jackoff's videos are just the background and Gear, but for Swot, you get the entire character creation process (with one or two little bits... (Read More)
Quickstart Progress
September 4th - via: kickstarter.com
Hope and I have been battling overtime over the weekend against the Dreadful Wrath of Technical Difficulties to get the Quickstart and character pack ready for you. The Quickstart itself is ready, and all the characters are ready to go, they just... (Read More)
Next Character
September 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
https://youtu.be/mjbRs-R8augPresenting the background and Gear Load-Out selection video for Nicholas Doran's character, callsign Goldstar, in the up and coming SHORT, CONTROLLED BURSTS series (which will be posted up next week, after all the bio... (Read More)
I Love the Corps Q&A
September 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
So earlier this morning I did a 2 hour Q&A about the game on the #RPG.net chatroom. This delves more into the setting, as well as going deeper into the mechanics, and should be an enlightening read for backers who have not played the game or... (Read More)
Project Update!
September 1st - via: kickstarter.com
So I just got home to discover that the project now has 100 BACKERS! Goodness me, that is awesome. Thank you much to everyone who has backed and otherwise supported me so far. New art is coming in. I sent out nine briefs last week and already... (Read More)
Art Creation is Underway
August 31st - via: kickstarter.com
Since the project has surpassed the minimum funding needed, last week I set about sending out some briefs to my artists who are currently free, and the results have started to come in. Since there is still potential time to hit the colour stretch... (Read More)
See the "Collision" story in action online.
August 30th - via: kickstarter.com
Good day, recruits! Last week, I ran a game of I Love the Corps on the Encounter Roleplay Twitch channel. http://www.encounterroleplay.com/shows/ The recording has now gone up on Youtube. Being that I was running 12 to 3am UK time, and was using... (Read More)
Convention Game Recaps
August 30th - via: kickstarter.com
https://ilovethecorps.wordpress.com/2016/08/30/strategy-the-iltc-games/Greetings recruits! I have added a Wordpress blog which breaks down the 3 I Love the Corps games I ran at Strategy. These should give more of an idea of the various different ways... (Read More)
A review of ILTC
August 28th - via: kickstarter.com
Greetings recruits. A few months back, I went to ConPulsion convention in Edinburgh. One of my games was played by Martin Page aka M Harold Page, author of many kinds of violent fiction. He has done a little review of the game he played. which I... (Read More)
Games, Games, Games
August 25th - via: kickstarter.com
This week is FULL OF GAMES to help promote the Kickstarter. Ran the first game of the Within campaign last night, which will form the first episode of SHORT, CONTROLLED BURSTS. Players were immediately immersed and the time flew (as they say, and... (Read More)
First Stretch Reached!
August 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Attention recruits! The first stretch goal has been surpassed today by a significant amount! I would be very happy if we could reach the second goal, as this will vastly expand the amount of art available across all three books. I have some other... (Read More)
Character Gen Video!
August 20th - via: kickstarter.com
Attention, recruits! Next week, we will begin recording SHORT, CONTROLLED BURSTS, a web series that will be used to run I Love the Corps campaigns, to show EVERYONE the game in action. I'll be running a campaign called Within. This is a video of Joe... (Read More)
My first video interview about ILTC!
August 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Attention, recruits! Yesterday I had an interview with accomplished Amazon author, Steve DeWinter. http://www.stevedw.com/index.htmlHe has a youtube channel called ODNT (Old Dogs, New Tricks) spotlight, where he interviews people who are... (Read More)
Character Sheet Addition
August 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Understandably, people have been asking for character sheet designs! These have been ready and actively used for months now, I just only had them as a PDF, and had some, but not all of the individual pages as images. The wonderful Stef Brooke-Harris,... (Read More)
Featured on ENWorld!
August 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks to Angus Abranson for asking me a few questions and featuring me in his latest RPG related Kickstarter article. You're a star. Gotta say, getting to be featured in the same article as a game by Monte Cook is pretty damn cool. ... (Read More)
Toast Mark 2
August 16th - via: kickstarter.com
So, as promised here is my next toast video. When we hit 50%, I toasted the first 33 backers. So since we have gone over 100%, this toast is for 34 through 74. Following backers will be toasted in a later video. You'll need an HTML5 capable browser... (Read More)
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE COMPLETE, MARINES!
August 16th - via: kickstarter.com
I am stupendously happy. After four days of funding, I Love the Corps has already reached its initial goal. This is phenomenal. A repeated, over-excited thank you to all who have pledged so far. You have been amazing and generous and my... (Read More)
82% thus far!
August 13th - via: kickstarter.com
So, only been 32 hours since going live and already at 82%. All the generosity, kindness and enthusiasm continues to astound me. Thank you very much, all of you. If I can reach the goal by the end of the weekend, that would be truly marvellous. (Read More)
New reward level added for PDF copies only.
August 13th - via: kickstarter.com
Attention marines! I have added the SCIENCE OPERATIVE reward level after some feedback. This is for backers that only want PDF copies, and provides you all three books for a big discount. Enjoy! ENLIST! (Read More)
Over 2000 already!
August 12th - via: kickstarter.com
This post is for backers only. Please visit Kickstarter.com and log in to read. (Read More)
Wow... just wow...
August 12th - via: kickstarter.com
So, I only launched the Kickstarter two and a half hours go, and we've already just beaten £1,000. That's already 25% of what I need to launch the game. Thank you to those early backers who have been so generous, and all the people who are signal... (Read More)
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