{"id":197,"date":"2026-11-01T16:39:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T22:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coolrpg.us\/?p=197"},"modified":"2026-11-01T16:39:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T22:39:59","slug":"coolrpg-volume-i-is-looking-for-playtesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coolrpg.us\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"CoolRPG: Volume I is looking for playtesters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CoolRPG: Volume I is a classic turn-based fantasy RPG built on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basicfantasy.org\/\">Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game<\/a> rules. It adapts <strong>BF1 Morgansfort: The Western Lands Campaign<\/strong> &#8211; the frontier town of Morgansfort, the wilderness around it and the dungeons beneath it &#8211; into a full computer RPG for phones, tablets, Google TV and Windows PCs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s in it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Make a hero from the classic classes and races, then recruit companions at the inn.<\/li><li>Combat by the book: to-hit rolls and saving throws, spells by level, Turn Undead, XP for treasure, encumbrance.<\/li><li>Towns and cities, the wilderness, and dungeons full of traps and secret doors &#8211; on foot, by ship, and later by airship.<\/li><li>Shops that restock, a bank, and smiths who enhance your gear up to +3 and set (or now remove) gems.<\/li><li>A quest log, achievements, and cloud saves through Google Play Games.<\/li><li>Play with touch, a controller or a TV remote.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New in versions 1.0.96 and 1.0.97<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Smiths can remove a gem from your gear &#8211; your party&#8217;s Intelligence and Wisdom improve the odds.<\/li><li>Random encounters fit the terrain: no more sharks on the road. At sea, sea creatures come for your ship.<\/li><li>Whetstones are used up when you sharpen your weapons.<\/li><li><strong>Options -&gt; Report a Bug<\/strong> opens our new report form with your version and device filled in.<\/li><li><strong>Options -&gt; Cloud Save Check<\/strong> shows why cloud saves aren&#8217;t working on a device.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Play it in your browser<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Members of coolrpg.us can now try the free edition right in the browser on the <a href=\"https:\/\/coolrpg.us\/?page_id=194\">Play in Your Browser<\/a> page &#8211; heroes go up to level 2 and each play session lasts 15 minutes (the game saves before it stops). Registration is free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Become a playtester<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Android version is in a closed test on Google Play. Send your Gmail address to <strong>support@coolrpg.us<\/strong> (or post in the forums) and we&#8217;ll add you, then join here: <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/apps\/testing\/com.coolrpg.crpgv1\">play.google.com\/apps\/testing\/com.coolrpg.crpgv1<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Found a bug? Use the <a href=\"https:\/\/coolrpg.us\/?page_id=165\">Report a bug form<\/a> &#8211; every report gets a number and shows up under Known Issues until it&#8217;s fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nexus.xinle.biz\/media\/CoolRPG_Volume_I_trailer_2026-10.mp4\">Watch the trailer<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/nexus.xinle.biz\/media\/CoolRPG_Volume_I_montage_2026-10.mp4\">gameplay montage<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/nexus.xinle.biz\/media\/CoolRPG_Volume_I_screenshots.zip\">screenshots<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">CoolRPG: Volume I adapts open-licensed Basic Fantasy material (CC BY-SA 4.0; Gold in the Hills under the OGL 1.0a). Thank you to Chris Gonnerman and every Basic Fantasy contributor.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A classic BFRPG computer RPG for Android, Google TV, Windows and now your browser &#8211; and we need playtesters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[16,17,19,15,18],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whats-new","tag-android","tag-bfrpg","tag-browser","tag-playtest","tag-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/coolrpg.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/coolrpg-volume-i-feature.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coolrpg.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coolrpg.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coolrpg.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coolrpg.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coolrpg.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coolrpg.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/coolrpg.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coolrpg.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coolrpg.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coolrpg.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coolrpg.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}