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The Gods and Icons Upgrade Pack is Here!

At long last, you can pick up the Gods and Icons Upgrade Pack now. New art and new monsters, with GM advice on how to use them.

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Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale!!!

All PDFs on sale now for Black Friday to Cyber Monday. Get your games now!

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Time After Time

You know the Time Loop story? Where the protagonists are stuck repeating the same events over and over? You may remember it from Groundhog Day, Star Trek, or Dark Matter. It’s everywhere. I wanted to run a time loop session for my Predation group, and make it fun. I’ve seen a bunch of these, but the one that really made me want to do this in a roleplaying game was Dark Matter’s All the Time in…

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Get Those Print Books and Cards Now!

Get Those Print Books and Cards Now!

Holiday Rush Our printer, Lightning Source, is about to get slammed for the holidays. To get your book or deck of cards on time, order soon. This affects all our print products you buy online. For Numenera: The Sun Below: City on the Edge and The Sun Below: Sleeping Lady. For 13th Age: Gods and Icons, Gods and Icons Player’s Companion, and Icons and Conditions For 5E: The Gods Have Spoken From…

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Gelatinous Dragon

Gelatinous Dragon Here’s some art from the Gods and Icons Upgrade Pack, for the 13th Age Roleplaying Game. I was going to add a gelatinous owlbear, which seems so 13th Age, but I worried the fine folks at Fire Opal might do the same and then think of the confusion. 😉 This is obviously the huge version of the gelatinous dragon, but don’t worry, we have the stats for a large one as well. 21 new…

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Recipe for Adventure

Hey, game masters, ever wonder what the heck you’re going to run next game? Sometimes a little research can make it all come together. For what it’s worth, he’re how I made my last adventure. Start with an Idea and an Internet Search Throw your idea into a search engine and see what comes up. Or just jump right to Wikipedia and start your search there. My idea: Nicolas Flamel, alchemist. I knew…

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Gods and Icons Upgrade Pack

Gods and Icons Upgrade Pack

We’re hammering out the final sections of the Gods and Icons Upgrade pack, a 13th Age roleplaying game supplement that adds to Gods and Icons. So what’s in it? Art We have new art for the gods, great for showing your players or helping you with descriptions. We have three pantheon symbols, one for each pantheon Three new images per pantheon Bright Gods: The Path of Earth, The Path of Heaven, and…

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Races in Numenera & the Cypher System

Races in Numenera & the Cypher System

I love Numenera, but using a descriptor for your race bothers me. It keeps non-humans from having “regular” descriptors like charming, rugged, or lonely. And if they really want to lean into their race, they lose their choice of focus, like murders or masters insects. What can you do? Don’t use the Racial Descriptor This is the “Doctor it hurts when I do this,” “Then stop,” solution and the one…

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The Gray World (5E)

The Gray World (5E)

The Gray World, On Sale Now! The Gray World is an introductory adventure for third and fourth level fifth edition Dungeons and Dragons characters. Pregenerated characters are included. The PCs discover they all have helped out Old Man Gray, a squash farmer. Then most everyone in the village dies with gray vines spurting out their bodies. Some NPCs survive, but not all can be trusted. Can the…

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Brightvarna Red and Other Tales

Brightvarna Red and Other Tales

A short collection of fiction that illuminates the world of Gods and Icons. Two icons who serve the same emperor struggle over a town corrupted by hell. An old sailor sees too much in the mists. A mage labors to craft magical spectacles that will let him see the trapped spirit of his dead lover. Best of all, it’s free.

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Pulp-O-Mized!

The Dread Unicorn couldn’t resist. Pumpkin Heads are all the rage in The Gray World. You can play too!

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We’ve got the first printer proofs in for The Gods Have Spoken, both hardback color and softback black and white (with color cover). So exciting to see them in print!

We’ll go over these with eyes of minute seeing, fix all errors, and get these out to you as soon as possible!

Printer Proofs for The Gods Have Spoken We've got the first printer proofs in for The Gods Have Spoken, both hardback color and softback black and white (with color cover).

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The Dread Unicorn Speaks The Gods Have Spoken ships, The Gods and Icons Player’s Companion goes on sale, and a look at games to come. The Gods Have Spoken We’ve shipped The Gods Have Spoken, a supplement for 5th Edition D&D full of new gods, new domains, new character customizations, new creatures, new magic items, a holy weapon creation system, and a brand new set of rules for using factions in…

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The Gods Have Spoken The PDF is available today at Drive Thru RPG. The print versions will be available soon.

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Using the Numenera Ruin Mapping Engine with the Sun Below

Using the Numenera Ruin Mapping Engine with the Sun Below

In Jade Colossus: Ruins of the Prior Worlds, Monte Cook Games has come up with a ruin mapping system that allows you to flesh out parts of the Ninth World that you don’t have details for. Most of the book is about the Jade Colossus, but like many Numenera ruins, it’s enormous and there is no point to detailing hundreds of rooms and corridors that players will never see. The ruin mapping engine…

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Icons and Conditions Review The Heavy Metal GM reviews Icons and Conditions.

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Piggybacking Part II

Before we steal Piggybacking from GUMSHOE, check out how it works there in Piggybacking Part I. The Noisy Cleric Problem The problem piggybacking solves can be found in all sorts of roleplaying games with all sorts of skills, but the example that comes to mind is sneaking into a castle in a fantasy game like Dungeons and Dragons. In fantasy books and movies, the heroes sneaking into places is a…