Ring Side Report- RPG review of Evolved

Product– Evolved

System– DCC RPG

Producer– Bloat Games

Price– $ 30.00 here  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ericfrombloatgames/evolved-superhero-ttrpg-powered-by-dcc-rpg 

TL; DR-Alright I’m in despite the cardinal sin.  97%

Basics– Ok, let’s be bad guys!  Evolved is a new super hero book for the DCC RPG that is currently in kickstarter.  If you know DCC RPG, then you already know almost most of this game.  Let’s look at this new expansion!

Mechanics or Crunch– Like MCCRPG?  then you like this.  That’s it.  Evolved is much more like MCC then DCC.  But if you like the basics of the dice chain, how you level, and how you progress, then you are gonna love this.  There are small changes that the writers have added like how your money is a die and you roll to see if you can buy something as opposed to cash much like how money is abstracted in Call of Cthulhu, but it’s mostly the game I know and I love.  What’s here is new and done well, so I’m in.  5/5

Theme or Fluff–  Like super hero comics and movies?  Then you’re in.  Again, this isn’t a genre-subverting change to super heroes, but it’s just the simplicity of the DCC/MCC rpg brought to super heroes.  That makes me happy.  This game difference is you have a low level hero in the now and in the future 2050s there is a dystopian version with your higher level supers.  That’s an interesting twist.  All in all, its MCC supers, and as a convert to DCC I love it..  5/5

Execution–  What’s here is good, but there is an unforgivable sin in any new RPG.  This book is a buck for a kickstarter version.  Ok, there will be problems, but for an intro of what is honestly at least 70% of a 30 buck book, I’ll overlook that.  But, like any new RPG there is NO adventure or premade characters.  Premade characters are excusable, but if you want me to see your two time periods, it would be something I want to see.  However, I don’t have any adventures to show off your world and game.  That’s a major no no for me.  Give me an adventure and this would be a solid intro. 4.5/5Summary- FINE!  Take my money.  Even if you break my rule and make a system without demo characters and an adventure, this is DCC/MCC supers.  I sat in enough Marvel movies at midnight to love superheroes and sat at enough con tables with my fellow grognards to love DCC.  So, I’m in.  Check the PDF for a buck here https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/466609/Evolved-RPG-Playtest-Doc–Powered-by-DCC-RPG–Now-on-Kickstarter&affiliate_id=658618 and then get the real book like me at the link above.  97%