Luke Gygax, son of Gary Gygax, is building a new role-playing game with the rules of D&D

polygon.com:

Luke Gygax, son of the late Gary Gygax — the co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons — is building his next tabletop role-playing game on the open-source version of 5th edition D&D. Called Strange & Grim, the dieselpunk setting is the first project announced for Everyday Heroes’ third-party licensing platform. A crowdfunding campaign is expected to launch in October. Gygax’s friend, designer Matt Everhart, is co-developing the game with Gygax.

Everyday Heroes is the first TTRPG published by Evil Genius Productions, founded by serial entrepreneur and author David Scott. Created with the help of game designer Jeff Grubb, it is the spiritual successor to d20 Modern, a spinoff of D&D first published in 2002. A crowdfunding campaign earned close to $400,000 in June. The announcement of Gygax’s involvement was made just prior to Gen Con, the United States’ largest tabletop gaming convention.

In an interview with Polygon, Gygax described Strange & Grim as a world where magic is tempered by science. The vibe is similar to the U.S. of the 1920s and 1930s, with all of the industrialization of warfare and political overtones that period brings with it.

“Magic has become more accessible,” Gygax said. “So you’re seeing industrialization of magic. So besides high fantasy magic — like somebody who could cast spells or throw a lightning bolt from their hands — there’ll also be that magical science, that aethertech, which is essentially magical technology. So you might have a lightning-bolt gun that a craftsman is able to manufacture.”

“It’s kind of a mix of Hellboy meeting Indiana Jones and throwing in a layer of a little bit of a horror touch in there as well,” he added.

In addition to Strange & Grim, Gygax is also known for creating the