[[The Emperor, original pencils by Aaron McConnell, newly painted by Lee Moyer]] We had two fun 13th Age panels at GenCon a couple weeks ago. We didn’t record the 13th Age Second Edition panel or the Monster Design Workshop, so I’m going to report a few questions that came out of the panels or that […]
Author Archives: Rob Heinsoo
Here’s another installment of the new kin powers from 13th Age 2E. If you played using the original core book, you probably noticed that wood elves rocked. That presented a challenge which we did not tackle in the Alpha Playtest Packet. Here’s what’s coming in the 2E Beta Playtest Packet in a few weeks Wood […]
(art by McConnell & Moyer) Each of the common kin have at least three kin powers in 13th Age 2E. Our third preview of kin powers from the in-progress Beta playtest packet is for the elves who call themselves the silver folk, known as drow by their enemies. (You can find the human kin powers […]
By Rob Heinsoo; art by Rich Longmore Here’s the second of the kin power lists from the in-progress work on the Beta playtest packet of 13th Age 2E. (The first article, for us humans, is here.) When there’s already a good choice like that’s your best shot, it can be a challenge to come up […]
Happy Friday the 13th! We’re working hard on the Beta playtest packet of 13th Age 2E. Mostly we want to reveal the changes all at once, but here’s something fun from 2E that you can use in any 13th Age game: the new kin powers! We’ll run one kin a week for the next few […]
by Jay Godden, edited by Isaac Rolfe and Rob Heinsoo, art by Lee Moyer & Aaron McConnell Read the introductory post here. In the much anticipated Second Edition of 13th Age we can expect to see a few changes to magic items. For the 13th and final article in this series, we explore a magic […]
Behemoths: Paths of the Koru is going into editing in May and now it has its cover: another collaboration between Rich Longmore (pencils) and Lee Moyer (paints and light)! My concept for the cover was to show a kaiju-plus-sized Koru Behemoth’s face behind the central towers of Drakkenhall, as they’d previously been illustrated by Aaron […]
Roena I. Rosenberger gave us three versions of the Drakkenhall: City of Monsters cover. We can see arguments in favor of each, and we think Roena must have felt the same way. So what do you think?
During one of the informal Pelgrane meetings, Robin asked all GMs present about their default NPC-style. The PCs start interacting with an NPC we haven’t planned something for; what style of NPC do we tend to default to? I kept notes! Gareth said he tends to introduce upper-class fops. And drunks. Maybe drunk upper-class fops. […]
By Julian Kay As penned by Viriel Pyrolea, newly appointed Imperial Astrologer, formerly an esteemed seer of Lightwood, now doing penance service for spurring theft and piracy along the Spray. The foreboding register consists of stars seen as hostile to imperial interests. Those that adorn themselves in raiment or accessories showing the foreboding constellations make […]