If you are interested any of these games, please email me with the game you wish to playtest in the subject line. The truth, or something like it System: Ashen Stars Authors: Piers Beckley Deadline: March 30th Description: 50 years ago, at the height of the Utopian era, the most powerful starship ever launched […]
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And so the time has begun for teases of Dracula Dossier content. Not least because the time is being taken up writing Dracula Dossier content instead of “Call of Chicago” content for See p. XX, but be that as it may. (If you’re wondering what The Dracula Dossier might be with all this content of […]
In The Zalozhniy Quartet, there’s a scene (not really a spoiler) where the PCs are outmatched and are ‘supposed’ to flee, leading into a tense chase. Expecting player characters to take a particular action is always hazardous design – you can set up a situation where there’s only one valid route for the PCs to […]
Undead by Casey Peavler and Ryven Cedrylle +2 to Con or +2 to Cha It’s not hard to understand why undead are feared and reviled by all cultures and all races. Mindless monsters, recently dead loved ones risen from the grave to feed on their family. The haunted spirits of those long-dead. Nothing in […]
Spring has arrived in London; birds are singing, flowers are blooming and even the sun has deigned to shine on us. Infused with the joys of the season, we’ve planted article seeds in people’s heads and can now show you what we’ve cultivated. New in the shop this month are the conclusion to the Cthulhu […]
We’re into the final days of Kevin Kulp’s TimeWatch Kickstarter, so there’s not much time left to get this latest GUMSHOE game at a knockdown price (unless you have your own time machine). The $80,000 stretch level is just under $500 away as I type, so if you haven’t already backed it, go and do […]
If you are interested any of these games, please email me with the game you wish to playtest in the subject line. 13 True Ways – Monk, Commander and Druid playtest classes System: 13th Age Authors: Rob Heinsoo & Jonathan Tweet Description: These three classes are now available for playtesting. Full instructions are […]
Sorcerous Options by Brian Slaby Sorcerer Talent Spell Shaper This talent functions like the Wizard’s talent “Vance’s Polysyllabic Verbalizations,” but without all of that stuffy, bookish spell re-naming. Rather, when you spend a quick action (in addition to the standard action it normally takes to cast the spell) you’re ripping additional arcane energy from […]
Tianacs by Lawrence Augustine R. Mingoa Introduction Some say tianacs are the spawn of witches who turned themselves into living vampires using vile rituals, while others claim that they’re the bodies of unborn or uncleansed infants that are corrupted by undeath. But regardless of how they came to be, tianacs are so small that they […]
Last month, I compared the 13th Age rulebook to my beloved Rules Cyclopedia, and talked about how cool strongholds were and how they’d work in the looser, more narrative Archmage Engine style. This month, it’s Dominions. There comes a time in every adventurers’ career – sometime between slaying that first dragon, and well before going […]