Publishing Lions & Tigers & Owlbears: 13th Age Bestiary 2 feels like a celebration! As part of the fun, we’re offering sample monsters from the book to a few gaming and geek culture sites, and I’m taking a sage moment here to tease out the origin stories. Rakshasa: The rakshasa entry started with art. Lee […]
Monthly Archives: August 2017
In GUMSHOE,when your character needs to do something tricky and where randomness adds tension, you roll a d6, add points you spend from an Ability pool, and if you make the Difficulty number, you succeed. The number of points you spend on a test can represent the effort a character is making, but usually they […]
To a season of political and social upheaval was added a strange and brooding apprehension of hideous physical danger; a danger widespread and all-embracing, such a danger as may be imagined only in the most terrible phantasms of the night. – Nyarlathotep The lurid heightened reality of Cthulhu City, with its gasmasked police, impossible skyscrapers, […]
July, as always, is a scramble to get books out for Gen Con, complicated by managing our most successful Kickstarter. Our printers Thomson Shore have indulged us by pushing print deadlines to the limit. The 13th Age Bestiary 2 is printed and shipping to our fulfilment points, Cthulhu City and Out of the Woods are […]
The big news from the last month is the successful funding of The Yellow King RPG Kickstarter, which raised a whopping £167,341 in pledges. Thanks to everyone who backed it! If you missed it, you can still pre-order at the Kickstarter pledge levels through our dedicated pre-order store page, here. We’re hoping to release The Yellow […]
In The Book of Demons, we introduce the idea of hellhole-specific demon powers. Instead of using the standard random demon power table, the book provides tailored tables of random powers, so demons from the Ratwood are more likely to have, well, ratty-woody themed powers, and demons from the Floating Market have a chance of powers […]
If you are interested in playtesting any of these games, please email us with the adventure you wish to playtest in the subject line. Title: The Demonologist class from The Book of Demons System: 13th Age Author: Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, Paul Fanning & Rob Heinsoo Deadline: 30th September 2017 Number of sessions: 6-8 Description: There’s a new type of magician […]
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