Today I want to dig into a specific mechanic: Fortune. If you’ve played either Pugmire or Monarchies of Mau, you know how this works. Each story, you start off with two Fortune in the Fortune bowl. Players experience setbacks or play into their personality traits to add Fortune to the bowl, and anyone in the party can … Read more
Now available for order from our partners at Indie Press Revolution: Beckett’s Jyhad Diary Deluxe Edition! It’s ever been a loaded word among vampires. Jyhad is in force everywhere from lofty, perfumed Elysium to cloying, smoke-filled blood feasts. Jyhad’s the eternal game played by elders, Methuselahs, and worse — it’s the agenda of beings so utterly beyond … Read more
Lost Lineage — The Faceless (Tortured Ones) Pain is one of the great motivators in human history. Make someone uncomfortable and they will constantly strive to improve their position. Light a fire under anything living and it will instantly run, jump, crawl, climb, do whatever it can do to get away. The Faceless may have … Read more
Last week I talked about Kickstarter, which is one of the ways we’re making and getting our game worlds out to you, and so this week, let’s look at some of our other venues – because they are evolving as well! First, there’s DriveThruRPG.com, which is still our primary sales partner when it comes to … Read more
This excerpt comes Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition. Part I was posted previously here. John It always starts the same way. Everyone already fleeing the burning building, lightning striking over and over, driving out the darkness in the night sky. Sometimes I’m standing amid the fleeing people, counting them as they turn to monsters before … Read more
In which the trio talks Harrowings, Shadows, and the Underworld at large. Also somehow Neall makes it on. Do we really have to tell you we go off the rails? The Wraith Curse! (Oh, no!) First-edition stories What is Wraith about? A bit about the setting Different ways to play Guilds and changes from older … Read more
This month saw the long-awaited release of Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition! Monarchies of Mau: Monarchies of Mau Community Content Assets for Canis Minor (PDF) Changeling: The Dreaming: Concordia Map (print / RedBubble) Exalted: Hundred Devils Night Parade: Northern Ursidae and Forest Strider (PDF) Exalted: Adversaries of the Righteous: Ninegala, Forge Goddess of Makelo (PDF) Promethean: … Read more
Included below is an excerpt from V5 Chicago by Night, available for preorder on Backerkit. A Tale of Two Cities Chicago is. It is a series of paradoxes and transitions, of ever-changing paradigms and whimsy. It is both beautiful and putrid, both corrupt and a pillar of truth, an unstoppable force for change while holding onto the past with howling desperation. Chicago’s inherent dichotomy is reflected in the people, … Read more
DriveThruRPG is currently throttling their access as they recover from their server migration. So if you can’t get through to them right now, please try again later. (For that reason, entries below are going to be pretty sparse until I can get through to the sites and grab the full product descriptions.) Now available in … Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 18, 2019 — Rich Thomas, founder and creative director of Onyx Path Publishing announced Scion: Dragon and Scion: Masks of the Mythos, two new supplements for the Scion tabletop RPG. Both offer new opportunities for gameplay by introducing new Pantheons, rules, storytelling advice, and expanded setting materials using the Storypath system. … Read more