Release Roundup: February 2019

Vampire: The Masquerade: Beckett’s Jyhad Diary (deluxe edition via Indie Press Revolution) Vampire: The Masquerade: Beckett’s Jyhad Diary Storyteller Screen (Indie Press Revolution) Vampire: The Masquerade: Vampire 20th Dice (Indie Press Revolution) Wraith: The Oblivion: Stygia Map Poster (image/print) Changeling: The Dreaming: Changeling 20th Anniversary Edition (deluxe edition via Indie Press Revolution) Changeling: The Dreaming: … Read more

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, … Read more

Now Available: Monthly Ex3 Releases

Now available from DriveThruRPG in PDF: Adversaries of the Righteous: Isabet Maken, the Master of Cauldron Valley Born to a life of muck and toil among nomadic horse breeders, Isabet left a trail of human misery on her path to the Guild’s highest echelons. She apprenticed with some of the greatest merchant princes of the … Read more

Strains [Dystopia Rising: Evolution]

The main “character class” you choose in DR:E is called a “Strain.” I’ll talk a little about Strain Paths in another update, but I wanted to give you a bit of an in-world explanation of what they are. Just remember — while the people you play may be physically (and in some cases mentally) different … Read more

Fiction Friday: Grass [Scion: Hero]

The following text is the introductory fiction to Scion: Hero 2nd Edition. Scion 2e can still be preordered via BackerKit. A cloud-darkened sky is only featureless to those who don’t really look. The careful and discerning eye perceives a thousand folds within the gathering storm. One can take any number of lessons from the sky … Read more

Directorial Control [They Came from Beneath the Sea!]

Many features of our Storypath games contain similar effects, but go under different names in different contexts. For example, Scion’s Twists of Fate have characters calling on divine energies to twist fate in their favor. The Trinity Continuum’s Dramatic Editing has Talents subconsciously tweaking probabilities in the fabric of reality. I thought it might be fun to check out how They Came from Beneath the Sea! contextualizes the same thing: A Special Case: Directorial Control If you’ve activated a … Read more

Shapeshifting [Lunars]

Originally posted as yesterday’s update on our Kickstarter for Lunars: Fangs at the Gate for Exalted 3rd Edition. The Lunars are peerless shapeshifters, clothing themselves in the skins of fierce beasts or stolen faces. Their protean power evinces their predatory nature; before a Lunar can take a human’s or animal’s shape, she must consume its … Read more

Fiction Friday: It Happened to Me, Part 3 [Changeling: The Lost 2e]

(A day later than anticipated, apologies. I blame the Hedge.) Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition can be purchased on DriveThruRPG. Michael “Pop art is about liking things, June. Why can’t you just like things?” She threw a decorative museum-store pillow at me. “Warhol was just dodging. I think he liked trying to get interviewers to put words in his mouth. Like it was more fun for them to invent an opinion for him.” … Read more

Contorting your Continuum [Trinity Continuum]

Hey, nerds. As Miracle Mike Chaney is inputting Trinity Continuum errata, I thought I’d take a minute to talk a bit more about the Continuum in general and the setting of the TC core in particular. With the Allegiances, we wanted to cover a wide array of different sub-genres within the wider action-adventure genre. If … Read more