2027 Pine Shallows now on Kickstarter
Strange things keep happening in town. It's up to you meddlesome kids to get to the bottom of things.
Small town, big adventures
Welcome to Pine Shallows, a small coastal town. A sunny and cheery tourist destination in summer, Pine Shallows empties when autumn’s chill comes. Strange things keep happening in the town’s off season, but local adults are so focused on preparing for next summer that they simply ignore or write off these strange occurrences. That’s why it's up to you kids to get to the bottom of things.
What is Pine Shallows?
Pine Shallows is a tabletop roleplaying game inspired by The Goonies, Stranger Things, Gravity Falls and middle grade adventure book series like The Legends of Eerie-on-Sea in which you portray small town kids going on adventures and solving mysteries.
The digital book contains the rules to create your characters and play the game. In addition, the city of Pine Shallows is detailed with numerous locations, supporting cast and hooks. Also included are Catch Of The Day, Grasp of the Understory and A Boat Ride to Valhalla, three complete starting adventures. The Pine Shallows Guide to Adventure is brimful of random tables to generate hooks, clues and supporting characters. With the Solo Rules you can explore Pine Shallows on your own.
Pine Shallows features
- 80 page A5 book, available as paperback print & pdf.
- A simple 2d6 resolution mechanic with failure, mixed and full success.
- The Plot Points token system gives players narrative control
- 10 character backgrounds: Athlete, Bookwork, Club Kid, Escaped from the Facility, Home Alone, Wiz Kid, Outsider, Teen Babysitter, Mysterious Orphan, Wiz Kid and New kid in town, each with their own special abilities.
- Quick character creation: pick a character background, divide some points between your Brain, Brawn and Heart, give your character a name and you're ready to go
- 13 detailed locations in and around Pine Shallows, with their supporting cast members
- Catch of the day, a complete starting adventure in which a mysterious fishman appears at the local aquarium
- Grasp of the Understory, a depthcrawl adventure into a greenhouse that's bigger in the inside then the outside
- A Boat Ride to Valhalla, a ghostly adventure featuring a viking ghost and plotting property developers
- An extensive Appendix N
- The Pine Shallows Guide to Adventure - Brimful of adventure hooks and random tables to generate countless adventures, characters and plots.
- Solo Rules - Rules & procedures to facilitate solo & coop play.
Credits
- Peter Eijk - Writing & Layout
- bertdrawsstuff - Cover & interior art
- Emiel Boven - Chapter opening art
- Evlyn Moreau - Character art
- Penflower Ink - Interior art
- Tyler Crumrine (Possible World Games) - Editing (main rules & Catch of the Day)
- Marx Shepherd - Editing (solo rules, Pine Shallows guide to Adventure, Grasp of the Understory & A Boat Ride to Valhalla)
The Kickstarter campaign will run from April 2nd to April 16nd on Kickstarter. Checkout the Pine Shallows campaign.
