The license is here. Rob Heinsoo’s original article on licensing follows. A creative flame. Arcane mastery. A hint of guile. We’re creating 13th Age under the Open Game License because we think the OGL is the right way to play well with others. We are working out the interactions between Fire Opal Media, Pelgrane Press, and people who […]
The latest episode of the Golden Geek-nominated podcast that’s sweeping the gamer nation, Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff, now wings its way toward your earbuds. Join us as we fling open the inaugural doors of the Cartography Hut to contemplate maps we have known and loved. In a frenzy of construction, we then throw […]
Response to the Hillfolk Kickstarter has been so overwhelming I haven’t had time to tell you how overwhelming it’s been. Things are moving faster than I can type this update. As of this writing, we’re at the 16 hour mark and are already 201% funded. The first two—no, make that three—stretch goals have been surpassed […]
After much preparation and furrowing of brows on the badlands, the clan council has decreed it: the Kickstarter campaign for Hillfolk has now gone live! Throw in with the Lion clan or the Wolf clan and help bring this labor of love from the manuscript stage to finished product. Backers of the project receive a […]
The 13th Age Kickstarter finished with over $70K raised. It’s been a wild ride, and now 13 True Ways includes contact we never invisaged originally. Thank you so much for all your support. Rob is supping energy drinks, chained to his desk to get the manuscript polished up; chapters are in layout, and all the […]
Bookhounds of London offers three different kind of campaign settings: Arabesque, Technicolor and Sordid. This time out I’m going to go Sordid, and discuss the crime of murder. Murder was an obsession of the Thirties. People read about them all the time – Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers made their careers out of murder – […]
Any moment now, when Kickstarter pushes the 13 True Ways book over $64K, Jonathan Tweet and Robin D. Laws and I will be working together again for the first time. Jonathan and Robin have worked together, most notably on Over the Edge. Robin and I have worked together from my first paid gig writing an […]
The 13 True Ways Kickstarter ends [fergcorp_cdt_single date=”22nd September 2012 5:00″]. We already have a host of stretch goals met including new classes, creatures and cities, but now we have the chance to get 32 pages of additional content by Robin D Laws on Devils and Courts of the Dragon Empire. Check out the great rewards […]
13 Age, and especially 13 True Ways, owes a surprisingly large amount to Dave Hargrave. In the 70s, Hargrave wrote the Arduin trilogy, three rulebooks that showed you how to run a high-energy D&D campaign filled with brilliant and over-the-top details. In effect, he was publishing d20 source material before it was strictly legit. Rob Heinsoo and […]