The time-travelling Assassin’s Creed franchise, first launched by Ubisoft in 2007, has been adapted into The tabletop role-playing game from CMON is now available for pre-order. But instead of putting one of the many existing and hugely popular historical timelines at the center of the action, the publisher made the bold choice to center the game’s core narrative in the modern era. correct: Assassin’s Creed role-playing game It will focus on the Animus, a MacGuffin-shaped piece of future technology that allows ordinary people to experience what it was like to commit murders in the distant past. Quick Start, 130 pages Animus Training Program Now available for free download.
For the uninitiated, Animus technology is a form of virtual reality that reads latent fragments of DNA from a person’s ancestors and uses that biological information to reconstruct events from the past in an immersive simulation. Narratively speaking, anyone who has enjoyed the Assassin’s Creed video game has been inhabiting a modern-day character who was placed inside an Animus. Their genetic information then tells the story from there, a fact the player is occasionally reminded of via cutscenes and short playable sequences.
But while many fans — including some here at Polygon — find the Animus aspect of Assassin’s Creed games either too confusing, unnecessarily complex, or both, CMON’s focus on it seems to be the reason Ubisoft finally green-lit the TTRPG .
“I think that’s exactly what got us the job,” said CMON’s Head of Role Playing, Francisco Nepetillo (The one ring), he told Polygon in a recent interview. “There were several projects that were brought to Ubisoft for an RPG, but we were the only ones who actually submitted the game. [an Animus-centric] corner.”
The weird part is – and stay with me here – the game looks kind of cool. Nebitello said Assassin’s Creed role-playing game You’ll constantly throw characters in the middle of the action, using the Animus as a way to play only the most exciting parts of the TTRPG and skip all the boring parts. If you’re playing in ancient Greece, for example, you don’t have to worry about unnecessary things like the currency system or even the details of the culture. Instead, all you have to do is roll some dice and do amazing things.
“All we have to do is act out a scene, for example, where you have to break into a temple, get something and get out,” Nabitelo said. So you enter the right amount of information to set up the situation. You do not need to create the whole world. This is exactly why, during the same session or over several sessions, you can jump from one time frame to another without any problems at all.
In fact, CMON’s new TTRPG won’t limit you to the main franchises found in the long-running series of time-traveling tricks. Naturally, it will mine the back catalog of smaller, some might say overlooked, video games. That includes Assassin’s Creed: Memories, an old 2015 trading card game for iOS. But the final product will also feature all-new assassin characters, like Major Gallagher fighting against the Nazis in WWII-era France. Players will also be able to create their own assassins.
Of course, character progression will be a big part of the equation – just remember that it’s your modern-day character who levels up, not her various historical ancestors.
“You will grow as an Assassin throughout the game in different ways, but especially through the ‘bleed’ effect, where by entering the Animus and reliving your ancestors’ memories as an Assassin from the past, you inherit abilities from your grandfather,” said Nebitelo. […] And as the game goes on, your power grows as you begin to display those abilities – even in the modern era.
Assassin’s Creed role-playing game It uses custom dice, which might be a deal breaker for some. Fortunately, there is a free mobile app, available now, that will roll all the dice for you. Pre-orders for the final game start at $35 and go up to a $130 bundle that includes 13 killer minifigures. There too Almost two and a half hours of actual video playback This gets into the nitty gritty of the game’s unique mechanics. Expect the final product to ship as a physical object by October 2024, with a digital copy of the core books available on DriveThruRPG well before then.
The next major Assassin’s Creed video game, Assassin’s Creed Mirageand is currently scheduled for release on October 5.
