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Other Borders
A dramatic storygame of drugs, money and magic in the American southwest.
There are borders everyone sees: the looming fence with its sporadic observation platforms, the tags claiming this block or that in the name of a local gang or drug cartel, and the wrought-iron fences surrounding gated communities.
There are borders that are real only in our minds, like the imaginary lines that divide country from country, or one race from another.
But in this little southwestern town, another border reveals itself to those gifted with the power to see it: the veil between the worlds. Even today, the old ways of magic are still taught; spells, curses, visions and transformations are still practiced, and opposing clans are locked in a daily battle that no policia would ever understand.
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OTHER BORDERS is based on DramaSystem by Robin D. Laws, and influenced by D. Vincent Baker's Apocalypse World engine.
There are borders everyone sees: the looming fence with its sporadic observation platforms, the tags claiming this block or that in the name of a local gang or drug cartel, and the wrought-iron fences surrounding gated communities.
There are borders that are real only in our minds, like the imaginary lines that divide country from country, or one race from another.
But in this little southwestern town, another border reveals itself to those gifted with the power to see it: the veil between the worlds. Even today, the old ways of magic are still taught; spells, curses, visions and transformations are still practiced, and opposing clans are locked in a daily battle that no policia would ever understand.
Buy Now in Print or PDF
OTHER BORDERS is based on DramaSystem by Robin D. Laws, and influenced by D. Vincent Baker's Apocalypse World engine.
126 pages, Paperback
Published January 14, 2016
About the author
Tod Foley
28 books15 followersTod Foley is a writer, editor, game designer & interactive artist, curator of the UbiquiCity project and other literary series as the founder of As If Books.
He's also the author of numerous roleplaying games including CORE (2019), Other Borders (2016), DayTrippers (2015), Watch the World Die (2014), and CyberSpace (1989). He produced the award-winning online "World of South Park" for Comedy Central, designed the award-winning "Ocean Explorer" for Times-Mirror Magazines, authored and produced the theatrical LARP "Ghosts In the Machine" (CyberArts International, 1992), and edited a tiny but nationally-distributed magazine called PIX-elation (1993-1996).
All these years and he still doesn't have a job. You can contact Tod online at TodFoley.com.
He's also the author of numerous roleplaying games including CORE (2019), Other Borders (2016), DayTrippers (2015), Watch the World Die (2014), and CyberSpace (1989). He produced the award-winning online "World of South Park" for Comedy Central, designed the award-winning "Ocean Explorer" for Times-Mirror Magazines, authored and produced the theatrical LARP "Ghosts In the Machine" (CyberArts International, 1992), and edited a tiny but nationally-distributed magazine called PIX-elation (1993-1996).
All these years and he still doesn't have a job. You can contact Tod online at TodFoley.com.
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January 15, 2017
I'm very pleased with this work. It is the first DramaSystem game to include magic, and succeeds at the table in evoking a gritty gangland drama with strong elements of magical realism, which was exactly the intent. Grab a few friends and act out your own trans-real cable TV drama.
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