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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…

November 28, 2017
Changeling: The Lost, The Hedge

Hey everyone! Working on wrapping Changeling: The Lost Second Edition. A while ago, I posted the bulk of the rules, and I’ve been integrating a ton of playtest notes and tweaking this, that, or the other thing. We’re in the home stretch on the text. One thing I’ve been asked more than a few times…

September 20, 2016
Sheer Perfection [Signs of Sorcery] [Mage: The Awakening]

Welcome back, faithful readers! Mage‘s errata is being incorporated, and the second edition core will soon be off to have an Index added. In the meantime, now that we have a stable ruleset, I think it’s high time to get back to Signs of Sorcery. Our topic tonight is the Perfected Metals, one of the…

August 12, 2016
Open Dev: Closing the Review Window for Hunter: The Vigil 2E Submissions

Hey folks, long time no see! First, thanks so much for sending in your submissions and following my instructions. I wanted give you a short update today to let you know where we’re at, and what my plans are over the next couple of weeks. Closing Submissions for Review – Submissions sent to us after…

July 21, 2016
I can see for miles and miles [Mage: The Awakening]

Welcome back, faithful readers! Since we opened Open Development on Signs of Sorcery, Mage: The Awakening Second Edition has moved through layout and proofing to the final approval by White Wolf. Those of you who read our last post will have already seen the second edition Mage Sight rules, though (if you haven’t, go read…

April 16, 2016
Signs of Sorcery [Mage: The Awakening] [Open Development]

Welcome once again, faithful readers! Or as Frank would say… Mage: The Awakening Second Edition (featuring the Fallen World Chronicle) is still moving its way through layout, but my cabal of authors have not been idle since its Open Development ended. We’ve been writing the first sourcebook for the new edition, Signs of Sorcery.…

March 20, 2016
Hunter 2E Open Dev: Slash! Slash! Slashers!

After spending the last couple of posts talking about compacts, I want to flip over and address slashers before we move onto conspiracies and, afterward, cells. A lot of what I’m talking about in this post, with respect to slashers, is speculative as opposed to definitive because I’m still in the brainstorming pre-outline phase. Also,…

January 12, 2016
Hunter 2E Open Dev: Slashers and Ashwood Abbey

I mentioned in my Hunter the Vigil 2E developer announcement that I wanted to use OpenDev as a way to introduce how I’m addressing gameplay, structure, and the three tiers in the context of the Slasher Chronicle. This will be an experiment, for both you and for me, that will help us understand how discussions…

December 22, 2015
Ascension [Mage: The Awakening]

What seems like a lifetime ago, two months before the first of these Open Development posts, I was on holiday (that’s proper English for “vacation”) in the Orkney Islands. One day, I visited a Distillery and bought a reasonably old whisky. It’s sat, undisturbed, in its bottle in the corner of my living room ever…

August 15, 2015
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Seers of the Throne) [Mage: The Awakening]

Time for the Devil to get his due. But first, some musical accompaniment. Several years ago, when we were writing what is now Vampire: The Requiem Second Edition, I was taking a lot of notes about how I’d handle Mage in what was then still The Fallen World Chronicle. Rose’s decision to put VII at…

July 23, 2015