Category: Deviant: The Renegades

  • Conviction and Loyalty [Deviant: The Renegades]

    Conviction and Loyalty [Deviant: The Renegades]

    Eric here. Today, I’m posting a fair chunk of the current Conviction and Loyalty section of Deviant. If conspiracies drive the actions of the entire cohort, Conviction and Loyalty Touchstones provide specific motivation to each individual Remade. Ready? Here we go: Divergence damages the part of the Remade’s soul that once guided her senses of…

  • A Collection of Scars [Deviant: The Renegades]

    A Collection of Scars [Deviant: The Renegades]

    Eric, here. Now that we’ve showcased some of the cool powers (Variations) that come with the Divergence, it’s time for a look at a few of the potential prices Deviants pay for their remarkable abilities: Scars. Every Variation takes on the activation method of the Scar connected to (or “entangled” with) it. Variations entangled with…

  • Universal Variations [Deviant: The Renegades]

    Universal Variations [Deviant: The Renegades]

    Eric here. Today I’ll be spoiling a few of Deviant’s Universal Variations (which are readily available to members of any Clade), as well as sharing some of the design goals that went into them: Telekinesis (• to •••••) OvertDirected, Tiered, Toggled The Deviant can exert raw telekinetic force to lift, throw, or strike without the…

  • An Introduction to Clades [Deviant: The Renegades]

    An Introduction to Clades [Deviant: The Renegades]

    Eric Zawadzki here. As there seems to be a lot of interest in the Clades, I thought I’d share a bit more about these. To that end, I’ve provided the introduction to Clades, most of the write-up for the Mutant, and the current version of one Mutant Variation – Rapid Healing. A usual caveat applies:…

  • Deviant at Midwinter [Deviant: The Renegades]

    Deviant at Midwinter [Deviant: The Renegades]

    Eric Zawadzki, here. Some folks expressed interest in seeing the Mid-Winter scenario for the Deviant game Meghan ran, so I’ve posted it as a Google document. This includes the player hand-outs, as well as the Storyteller information. I haven’t included the character sheets because the mechanics of several Variations and Scars have changed so much…

  • The Contagion Chronicle Kickstarter has launched!

    The Contagion Chronicle Kickstarter has launched!

    The Kickstarter for a prestige edition of the Contagion Chronicle has launched! The Contagion Chronicle is an overarching compendium of chronicle hooks, riveting settings, and Storyteller aids to help present all the Chronicles of Darkness game lines with one consistent story. In the chronicle, the Contagion acts as a motivational force and inspires the formation of factions where vampires,…

  • Deviant at Midwinter [Deviant: The Renegades]

    Deviant at Midwinter [Deviant: The Renegades]

    Hi all! Meghan Fitzgerald here, to give you the rundown on how the Deviant: The Renegades playtest went at Midwinter. Since neither Eric nor Dave could make it, Eric provided me with an excellent playtest to run, in which we were mostly testing out the Variations (powers) and Scars (power drawbacks). I had four players,…

  • Halloween Bonus! Origins [Deviant: The Renegades]

    Halloween Bonus! Origins [Deviant: The Renegades]

    Eric Zawadzki here, co-developer of the new Deviant: The Renegades line. Dave Brookshaw and I are hard at work redlining, but I thought I’d take a moment to share an excerpt from this project. Today we’re going to share Origins with you, which is one axis along which Deviants are organized, the other being Clades.…

  • Variations on a Theme

    Variations on a Theme

    I thought about holding that pun back for a post about the powers set, but… Nah. Welcome back, faithful readers! Deviant: The Renegades is but two first drafts off being in Redlines. Since I last wrote one of these posts, a good 95% of the book has appeared on my hard drive through the hard…

  • One. Of a kind. [Deviant: The Renegades]

    One. Of a kind. [Deviant: The Renegades]

    Welcome back, faithful readers! Last Time we talked about the elevator pitch for Deviant: The Renegades, the newest Chronicle of Darkness game. Deviant will be the eleventh main gameline in the CofD, the third to be written entirely for a second edition ruleset, and if you include every monster, faction and creature ever published in…