Today, 13th Age goes to press. The endless ways in which printing might go wrong never cease to surprise me. Taylors have a big plant vacation between now and GenCon, so this is cutting it fine, and the team have been working late nights, with hair pulled out where it is present, and there has […]
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Rob Heinsoo crawled miraculously unharmed out of the massive footprint left by a Koru Behemoth to give us this sneak peek at more 13 True Ways monster art… The Monster Art +13 contest we ran after the 13 True Ways Kickstarter had one entry that I discarded immediately. It was from Christoper Tatro and it read like […]
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Erik Kain recently gave 13th Age an excellent review on Forbes.com, saying: “…one of the best systems I’ve encountered—and I’ve either played or read the rules to countless d20 systems at this point—is 13th Age, a game cobbled together by Jonathan Tweet and Rob Heinsoo.” He then goes on to say: “13th Age is … […]
The 13 True Ways cover above is our first rough draft. Aaron and Lee still have lots of work they plan to do on it. That’s a wind-and-lightning powered druid fighting a dragon who has yet to be revealed. It gives us game designers something to strive towards. Lee calls the piece Over Drakkenhall. I […]
PublicOpinion posted this on the Something Awful 13th Age forum. Quite useful. After messing around in Roll20, I found a way to automatically include the current escalation die value in the relevant macros: First, you create an “Escalation Die” character on the Journals tab. This step doesn’t matter, but its name should be something you […]
Rob Heinsoo recently emerged from the depths of the Queen’s Wood with disturbing tales of the little folk — and a piece of art from 13 True Ways. David Kaehler was one of the winners of the Monster Art +13 contest for the 13 True Ways Kickstarter. David asked for a somewhat straightforward illustration of […]
The Other Steve recently picked up his Escalation Edition copy of 13th Age and can’t believe he waited so long as, in his words, “13th Age is, hands down, the most exciting modern D&D variant I have encountered.” In a detailed review over on BoardGameGeek, he explains how 13th Age: …sits at the nexus not […]
Michael Evans reviewed the 13th Age Escalation Edition for EN World, providing one of the most in-depth and crunchy-yet-concise examinations of the game to date. I encourage you to check out Part 1 and Part 2 of his review. “As far as the Character Class design of 13th Age, I am quite impressed so far. […]
Last night we checked in with hard-working layout artist Chris Huth on the status of the 13th Age core rulebook. Here’s where we are: Chris has finished laying out chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 9. The core team has given him feedback on all those chapters except 9, which they’re now reviewing. Chapters 4, […]