Greetings, true believers! Last week, we showed you how one builds a dice pool in Sardonyx and how one generates and stores Momentum. This week’s update is courtesy of Lauren Roy and Danielle Harper: Attributes and Skills, the nuts and bolts of those dice pools. Again, go easy on us – it’s feature complete, but still … Read more
There’s a whole lot of things that go bump in the night, or on our schedules, or in our brains. And end up in our Monday meetings. This week I’m using a weird occurrence that happened over the weekend for a theme. At one point the top six threads at RPG.net were about our projects. … Read more
Now available in PDF and print from DriveThruRPG: Art of Changing Breeds: A Visual Guide to the Fera The Art of Changing Breeds compiles the sketches, art notes, and alternate color approaches that went into the creation of the art depicting the shapeshifters featured in W20 Changing Breeds. Each Fera gets a section with down to … Read more
Greetings, true believers! It’s been a long, hard path to Sardonyx. The Genesis of a System The Storyteller/Storytelling Systems are built towards a fairly specific end – that is, horror gaming. Many games using those systems do cinematic action (Exalted, for example), and do it very well, but the primary focus of the games is on the … Read more
The Prestige Edition Kickstarter for Beast: The Primordial is now live! All your life, you’ve dreamed of monsters. They pull you into blackened depths, leap at you from shadows, dive at you from the skies, swarm from cracks in the walls, or break you to pieces as you scream for mercy. Then one night you … Read more
_ As is usual right before a Kickstarter campaign, most of our talk is making sure all the parts are working together, and our KS team (me, Rollickin’ Rose, Mirthful Mike, and Impish Ian) as well as the developer(s) are all set to cover our respective responsibilities. Some of those are dictated by the way … Read more
Attainments! Early in the discussions around a new edition of Awakening‘s ruleset, the team expressed a desire to tidy up some of the exceptions and secondary effects built into the system – things like Sympathetic casting, Aimed Spells, Spell Triggers, Counterspell, Summoning. Anything that was magical, but didn’t strictly speaking follow the magic rules. Some … Read more
In previous updates, we’ve mentioned Kinship and the fact that the Children feel that the other creatures in the World of Darkness are their little brothers and sisters. That’s brought out some reaction, some of it receptive, some not, and I want to take a little time to talk about my intent in designing the … Read more
That’s right, Trinity Continuum shirts, at long last! Trinity Continuum: Æon with art by Chris Moeller Trinity Continuum: Aberrant with art by Glenn Fabry We’ve also got a few new Scion shirts, including some long-requested Pantheons: Pantheon: Tuatha Pantheon: Yazata Cover: Ragnarok
So far, some of my favorite stuff about the Second Edition lines has been the appendices for mortal “minor templates”. The ghouls from Vampire 2e, the wolf-blooded from Werewolf 2e, and the Sleepwalkers from 2e add a bunch of fun options to chronicles. I wanted Changeling 2e to be similar in that regard. So, we’re … Read more