Where is Neuroshima?

Apr 1, 2011

So, you’ve played Neuroshima Hex and some of it’s expansions. Intrigued, you picked up a copy of the Neuroshima Hex: Duels expansion in 2009, and rushed out to get 51st State, the new card game just released in the USA from Toy Vault.

All of these games say “Based on the world of the Neuroshima RPG”.

What the heck is the Neuroshima RPG?

Well, I know it is a post-apocalyptic USA based role-playing game. They say it is along the lines of Fallout, Max Max, Terminator, and any other cool game that would be excellent to adventure in. The problem is that Portal, the publishing company, is in Poland. The game is available in Polish only. Unlike the board games that have been lovingly translated into English, so us Yanks can share in the fun, the level of effort, or desire, just doesn’t seem to exist for the RPG that started all this. I say to you Portal Publishing, please translate to English for us?

Portal was “working on it” a couple of years ago, but nothing seems to have happened. Isn’t there some RPG publisher out there that likes to make money? There have been many requests for the translation and publishing of the RPG in english. No one likes money anymore?

How about one of those P500 companies working out a deal, or Z-Man, who published Neuroshima Hex, or Toy Vault? Somebody.

Please join with me in contacting Portal Publishing to ask them if they will ever enable the people whose shores the game actually takes place on to actually play the game as well.

Their email is [email protected] Let them know that it is time to strike while the iron is hot and the desire is out there. Otherwise I am sure that someone will be happy to publish Fallout: The RPG ( I see there is already a PNP), and we can forget all about the mysterious world of Neuroshima.

Heck, maybe I can find my old copies of The Morrow Project, that was a lot of fun. Actually, that leads to an entirely different post. Apparently, Morrow Project 4th Edition Rules are currently being developed by Timeline LTD, but the site hasn’t been updated since Feb 6, 2010.

Again, that’s for another post.

For those interested, here’s what Portal’s website says about their Neuroshima RPG:

Neuroshima is a RPG set in a post-apocaliptic future. Action takes place in the USA, 30 years after a devastating war between people and machines. Northern sections of the USA are under Moloch occupation, where no human being is able to live; a place where dreadful machines are building their own new world. Neuroshima RPG is a great game for all people who like Fallout, who like Mad Max, who like Joe Dever’s Freeway Warrior books.

Neuroshima RPG is our most popular game. Neuroshima is currently in it’s third print run, with more than 8000 rulebooks already sold and with 16supplements published, many of them reprinted!

There are many fanbooks and supplements published on the internet in PDF format. There are two conventions dedicated to Neuroshima. There are many great fan activities every year in Poland. Neuroshima has its own internet portal: neuroshima.org, updated every single day with news and links connected with Neuroshima RPG. There are links to more than 550 articles about Neuroshima published in Polish on the internet (adventures, new rules etc.)

Kind of makes you wish you could actually try it doesn’t it? Sigh….