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Liminal Review

I will let you all in on a secret. I may have a little bit of a weakness for urban fantasy. There is something that speaks to me about being in the modern world, but still finding the strange and magical just out of regular view. Tell me about ghosts and shadows and fey that still hang out just down the street and explain why I don’t always see them when I look their way, and you’ve got my attention.

There is no shortage of urban fantasy RPG products today. What is less common is one that details a specific setting that does not default to the United States. It’s very easy for me to view urban fantasy through a lens crafted from watching Buffy and Supernatural, and reading the Dresden Files. Liminal, the RPG that I’m looking at today, features the UK as it’s setting, and that important distinction is evident in several places.

Ghostly Forms

This review is based on the PDF of the product, which is a 286-page full-color document. It has single column formatting, and unlike many RPGs, where art is limited to full page chapter introductions and potentially half page or quarter page illustrations, there are many pages that utilize thematic imagery blended across half the page, under the text, or pages that have a running theme such as a city skyline across the bottom of the page.

While many products evoke a feeling with the included artwork, the way Liminal uses its imagery tends to weave in and out of the narrative to create an otherworldly feeling in several places in the book. While some artwork is used traditionally as half page pieces, there are several pages where the artwork also serves as the background image for the page.

Chapter 1

Chapter 1 serves as a basic introduction to the premise of the game, introduced with a short piece of in-character fiction. The game revolves around liminal characters–characters that are part of both the mortal world and the supernatural world–forming crews and solving cases. There is also a quick reference to the base resolution mechanics, which utilizes two d6s + a modifier, versus a target number. If modern game design leads you to wonder if this is a Powered by the Apocalypse Game, it isn’t, but we’ll get into more of the mechanics later.

The basic framework of the setting involves the following “truths”:

There is magic, and magicians

There are vampires with their own power group

There are werewolves and werewolf gangs

There are fae with multiple courts

There are ghosts

The myths of the UK, as well as many cultures that the UK has interacted with, have a basis in fact

Some religious organizations know about the supernatural

The UK has a police division that deals with the supernatural

Chapter 2

Chapter 2 delves into character creation. This involves coming up with a character concept, picking a drive, choosing a focus, and then buying skills and traits.

The drive is what the character wants to accomplish by getting involved with supernatural cases and interacting with the hidden world. The character’s focus is the chassis on which the character is built, and includes the following options:

Determined (someone with strength of will and a strong mind)

Magician (someone trained or with a natural talent to use spells and magical abilities)

Tough (someone with a strong body or powerful endurance)

Some of the traits listed later in character creation are keyed specifically for each of these character foci. While most forms of magic use are restricted to the magician focus, shape changing is available outside of the magician focus to represent lycanthropes and other were-creatures, although only magicians can learn multiple animal forms.

Initial skills have a skill cap which can later be increased during character advancement, and some skills can double as stats used for casting spells. For example, most magic will use Lore, but Glamour magic uses Art to resolve effects.

Characters have Endurance and Will as attributes, which measures how much physical and mental wear and tear they can take, respectively. These have a base number, modified by the Athletics or Conviction skill.

Traits are similar to what other games would call feats or stunts. Picking up the ability to use a specific form of magic is a trait, but there are also traits like Graceful or Rich as well. Characters can also pick up to two limitations, which can get them additional points to use for character creation. These limitations are also the means to represent characters that fit a specific supernatural origin, so giving a shape-changing were creature a weakness to a specific material can help create the overall theme, as can giving someone with vampiric abilities an aversion to sunlight.

In addition to focus, skills, traits, and limitations, there are example archetypes in this chapter to cover what a formally trained wizard might take, versus a mortal investigator, versus a lycanthrope or a dhampir. There are also sample player characters, which are the same characters utilized in the text for various in-character quotes and introductory fiction.

Chapter 3

Chapter 3 details the rules on creating crews and adjudicating factions. There is a specific list of things to detail about a crew before the game begins, and the information derived from this helps to shape what the campaign will look like. It is essentially a mechanized session zero for the group.

Crews have a goal, much like a group version of the individual drives that characters create for their characters. There is a list of crew resources, and each player picks one of those resources for which the crew has access. This can involve having greater starting capital, a headquarters, a safe house, or even a bonus when dealing with specific enemies.

The group determines what major factions are at play in the campaign, and each PC determines if they have a positive or negative relationship with that faction. Rankings for each faction at play go up one for each positive relationship, and down one for each negative relationship, to a maximum of +/- 3, with an extreme rating meaning that the crew is either known as an ally to, or devoted enemy of, that faction.

Additionally, each player will provide a hook, an open-ended supernaturally adjacent bit of news that is floating around the game world, that the GM can then weave into the greater campaign.

I really like this formalized way of setting up the crew, and even separated from the specific mechanics of the game, it serves as a good way to start a campaign and to poll the table as to what the campaign should look like and what the players want from the game. The biggest sticking point I think may be the hooks–it’s a great idea, but not every player is going to have a strong hook to contribute early in the campaign, and it may feel a bit like putting them on the spot.

Chapter 4

This section deals with how the game rules work at the table. Base resolution is 2d6 plus a relevant skill versus a target number, but there are a number of ancillary rules that make this resolution a little bit more robust.

Opposed tests involve a base number plus the opponent’s relevant skill, rather than having both sides roll against one another. Characters can spend points from their Will attribute to modify their rolls. When a character fails, the GM gets to determine which of four options apply to the failure, so failure doesn’t feel quite as binary as it might otherwise. Additionally, if a character succeeds by 5 or more on a test, there is a list of additional effects that can be added to the result.

One of my favorite rules bits in this section involves persuading or coercing other characters. Successfully doing this doesn’t mean that the character has to do what you want them to do, just that they either have a penalty to actions that don’t line up with what you want them to do, or they must suffer a hit to their Will to shake off the effects of the failed contest.

In conflicts, initiative is handled in a manner similar to Cypher system, in that the players roll against the highest opponent’s skill to determine if they go before or after the opposition.

Chapter 5

Chapter 5 is all about magic. Way back during character creation, you could buy the base level of various forms of magic, but this chapter has a number of upgrades that you can purchase to allow more thematic effects based on the type of magic being enhanced. The magic traditions included in this chapter include:

Blessings and Curses

Divination

Geomancy

Glamour

Necromancy

Shapechanging

Ward Magic

Weathermonger

Most of these are straightforward effects that utilize the game rules. For example, base necromancy lets you talk to spirits, and one of the upgraded effects lets you drain life energy from opponents. Shape changing gets a little tricky and confusing, at least for me. Bigger than human forms get a bonus to Endurance, smaller than human forms get a penalty, and animal forms grant a bonus to skills that animal form is good at performing–all this works for me and adjudicating what an animal form is good at on the fly isn’t too hard in this kind of game.

Where I got a little turned around is that the description of the ability in this chapter starts mentioning traits that may go with the animal form, and that some of those may carry over to the mortal form, and I don’t know if that’s just flavor for how a character should build their character, or if you are meant to give them bonus traits based on animal form, and to decide if they should be split across animal and mortal forms. I don’t think this is the case, but for some reason, I got turned around it this particular form of magic and its description.

Chapter 6 and Chapter 7

I’m grouping these chapters together, as they are both descriptive of what the assumed setting of Liminal should look like. Major and minor factions are detailed, as are various cities and sites in the UK. One of the elements that sets Liminal apart from other urban fantasy games is that the factions and locations often have ties to specific elements of UK history. Some historical figures were turned as vampires, and their deaths covered up. The Council of Merlin may have looked the other way during some historical events while protecting the isles during others. There are a lot of details that feel like they add one extra layer to history, without burying the setting in lore, and without changing some important, sensitive events by shifting the blame from human shortcomings to supernatural involvement.

There are major factions for wealthy, formally educated wizards, less formally trained and potentially less lawful wizards, government agencies, Anglican, Catholic, and Muslim religious organizations that deal with the supernatural, a powerful werewolf family attempting to unite the various gangs, fey courts native to various geographical areas of the UK, and the primary vampire organization in operation.

There are some subtle and not so subtle commentaries going on with some of the factions. Vampires are dangerous, but their organizational goals tend to be a little out of date. The Council of Merlin is very much a rich male organization that thinks it is being very progressive by allowing women to join and having a reasonable application fee that only the wealthy could possibly front. The police unit that investigates supernatural crime doesn’t actually formally record any supernatural details of events, to shield information from the public record, but there is also an ancient group of wizards that still nominally works for the crown as well.

One interesting aspect of the setting that becomes apparent as organizations and locations are detailed is that creatures like demons and angels aren’t really a feature of the setting. Gods are mentioned as potentially being powerful fae creatures, and djinn and rakshasas seem to be fae as well, so it may be that all of the ephemeral creatures from “other realms” fall into this category.

There are a few places in the text where this struck me previously, but in these chapters, especially, I am very aware that there are no specific sidebars or separate discussions on safety or content. Not only are we dealing with some fairly ghastly werewolf rituals, predatory vampires, and gruesome means for ghosts to come about, but we’ve also got the misogyny of the Council of Merlin, potential religious friction, at least some discussion of political tensions between various regions of the UK, and fae king who kidnaps women to be his bride (they are mentioned as needing to willingly accept the position, but they are also mentioned as being kidnapped, coerced, misled, and put in suspended animation when he is ready for a new bride).

It is a rich history that has been woven into a real-world location, and it has been done better than some urban fantasy setting material, but in this era of games, there really needs to be more awareness of content that could be problematic, and how to deal with that in a game that touches on those topics.

Chapter 8, 9, and 10

The final three chapters in the book are the chapter on gamemastering, the chapter for “faces” (which includes stats for various supernatural beings PCs might encounter, and the chapter for sample cases.

The gamemastering chapter has sections on how to structure cases, advice on setting difficulty, and places outside of the UK where Liminal stories may take place. I like the very solid, practical advice on how to structure a case, and its advice that could work for structuring other urban fantasy games as well, making it even more broadly useful. It’s also interesting to see the setting assumptions applied to locations in the US and Germany as well as the baseline assumed setting.

The faces section includes new traits, some of which can be available for PCs, but may push them further into the fully supernatural, rather than the border between. These traits mainly exist to help with the stats found in this chapter, which include fae, ghosts, clued-in mortals, ordinary mortals, vampires, and werewolves.

The final chapter sample cases do a really nice job of explaining the setups, the facts of the case, the point at which complications may occur, and ways that the case may be resolved, but not much about detailed specifics between certain “notes” in the case. The outlines are more interested in pointing out that you need to find out about X, not that you need to do a specific thing to find X, but that once you find X, some kind of complication should happen. I like the solid outline with flexible sections between approach.

That said, between gamemastering and sample adventures, no dedicated discussion on safety or content warnings for a game that can have some potentially uncomfortable content.

Index, Concepts, Sketches, Process, Afterword, and Acknowledgements

The final sections in the book include an index, a section that showcases the art that serves as the backdrop of most of the book, without the words and formatting that obscures it, an afterward, and an acknowledgments section that details the various backers and playtesters.

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The setting resonates as a strong urban fantasy realm that is both familiar and unique, because of the rich ties to historical locations and events.

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The rules do a nice job of riding the line between simple and granular and pick up some of the best modern game design notes by building in ways to fail forward and to add detail to skill tests. The setting resonates as a strong urban fantasy realm that is both familiar and unique, because of the rich ties to historical locations and events. The crew creation rules provide a solid structure and direction for the campaign and ensure a degree of intentionality that would benefit a lot of games.

Shadowed Path

The rules are just granular enough that they may have benefited from a few more summaries or examples, especially where magic is involved. While not entirely a negative, players need to have some creative investment to get most of the structure of the rules. In a modern game, there really needs to be more discussion on safety and content warnings at the table, especially when modern problems and elements of horror stories are assumed aspects of the game.

Qualified Recommendation–A product with lots of positive aspects, but buyers may want to understand the context of the product and what it contains before moving it ahead of other purchases.

This is a rich urban fantasy setting with a solid set of rules for adjudicating the game, but you may need to do your own work to reinforce safety at the table without any support from the game, and you may want to be sure your players are up to coming up with their own elements that help to shape the setting.

Have you also been bitten by the urban fantasy gaming bug? What are your favorite urban fantasy games, and what subgenres within urban fantasy are your favorites? What games do you think have most effectively utilized the tropes of your favorite subgenres? Let us know in the comments below–we’re excited to hear from you!

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5 Mind Numbing Facts About SEO 2019

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Email Outreach Tips for Link Building

Link building is alive and more important than ever!

Before, building any kind of link was sure to give you SEO benefits.

But now, only the best links get recognition in Google’s eyes.

Great links give your site authority and a lot of traffic.

The only catch is that you’ll need to really work on building high quality links instead of making junk ones.

A hundred links may only contain a few, really good ones. Most marketers tend to give up building links via outreach because they’re used to using shady methods to get more links in less time and getting more instant gratification. This leads them to believe it’s not really worth the effort to do it properly, because good link building takes time…

Smart marketers tend to optimise their link building tactics and as a result, get better conversion rates.

Want to know the secret to improving and optimising your outreach for link building to get awesome conversion rates?

You’ve come to the right place. Keep reading and I’ll show you.

#1 Don’t ask for a link straight away

Let’s start with writing up a really great outreach email.

Maybe you’ve just created an epic blog post and you’re looking to get links for it. An email outreach campaign can get the job done as long as you follow the rulebook:

Use a polite tone

Don’t be too pushy

Don’t make it seem like you just want to get a link

Back in the day, you could potentially acquire 10, maybe 20 links for every 100 emails sent as long as you asked nicely and didn’t have any misspellings or bad grammar.

Today, you’d be lucky to get a dozen response. What happened?

Lazy marketers are to blame…

They started copying and pasting templates that were meant to be used as guidelines. Here’s an example from our link building guide:

Hi [NAME],

I came across your incredible [INDUSTRY/NICHE] resource page (LINK) and wanted to give you a quick pitch for inclusion.

I’ve created a new piece of content about [TOPIC] that I think would be great for your readers.

If interested, you can check it out here (LINK).

Have a great day!

The result? Blog owners and businesses start getting spammed with similar-looking emails asking for links.

What do these bloggers do? Understandably, they treat it as spam and delete it right away.

Now, let me ask you this: Would you read an outreach email if the first few sentences contain a link right away?

Probably not. It’s an obvious sign that the email sender wants something from you.

People don’t like being used. This is a fact of life. More often than not, these people will delete your email as soon as they get suspicious.

So what do you do in these cases? The opposite. If bloggers are sending links right from the start, then do things a bit different. Don’t insert any links at all in your first email!

Here’s an example. Instead of “Hey, I’ve got a great dog training guide that will knock your socks off! [LINK]”

Why not this? “Hi, I noticed that most of your posts are about dogs. I did some research and found an obscure training technique that really worked well. If it’s not too much trouble, I’d like to know what you think about it. Can I send you the link?”

This gets the person to think that you’re sending something that actually benefits them, which in turn gets a response of something like, “Sure, why not. Send it over.”

While this does not guarantee a link, you’re more than likely to get a conversion if you have great content.

#2 Keep it short

Remember the lazy marketers who copy email templates?

Forget them. The person I want to talk about are the marketers who go the extra mile.

Good marketers are awesome because they put their effort in everything they do.

But sometimes this attitude presents a certain disadvantage when it comes to creating emails.

More specifically, sometimes the email can be too long.

Think about it for a second. A typical reader won’t have 10 minutes to spare reading a thousand-word email.

They’ll likely look at it, see the length and promptly press the “delete” button.

The bottom line here is you shouldn’t try hard to make a connection.

Keep it simple and straight to the point. Save the story for when you get a reply.

A good email outreach would be around 4 to 6 sentences, or under 200 words. Try to keep this in mind when crafting your next email.

Too long, didn’t read!

#3 Don’t ask them to do too much

Would you refuse a person who asks you to take a picture while you’re out in the streets?

Probably not. But you would certainly say no when that very same person who asks you to do a photo session that lasts for an hour.

My point is that the more you ask of your target, the less they’re likely to agree.

Sure, you’ll need to insert the link somewhere in the conversation, but how do you do it?

Would you send this “Hey there. Here’s a link to my content. I’d appreciate it if you could put this up anywhere in your website.” and expect a positive response?

Probably not. It’s too much work, really.

The blogger will have to do a lot of things.

They will have to read your content, do some digging in their old blog posts AND find a suitable spot from where they could insert your link.

Sad to say, but this is the reason why you have a low conversion rate. The only way to get a chance is to make it easy for them to link to your content.

Here’s a few ideas for you:

Find content within the blogger’s website that will make a perfect fit for your link. Write up some additional text to make the link fit in their content naturally.

Send an embed code if you’re promoting infographics.

Offer the blogger future content that can prove to be very useful, highly informative and engaging. Make sure your link fits in this content.

Offer to edit and improve past blog posts as leverage for posting your link. Send the finished text in a format for easier posting.

These are just a few examples you can try out. Make it easy for them to say yes!

#4 Make sure you’re emailing the right person

One surefire way to get zero conversions is to send your email to the wrong person.

This may sound stupid, but it does happen.

You could be sending dog training links to bloggers whose niche is home improvement.

Or, you could be making subtle mistakes with your targeting.

How does this happen? For one, you could be targeting the wrong bloggers when you use your marketing tools.

You’ve written an amazing guide on how to do social media marketing the right way.

Now, you’re doing a search for the appropriate sites to send your link to.

You type in “marketing” and get sales bloggers, paid advertising sites and SEO companies. The only problem is, these aren’t the best fit for your content.

Sure, you’ll get a few responses when you send 500 emails, but most of them will just delete your email.

Why? Because it’s clear that you don’t have an idea of what these bloggers do and what they write about.

While it’s true that this tactic may sometimes be used to get links in a niche that’s somewhat related to yours, you’ll have to explain why you’re doing this and how they can benefit from it.

To get a higher conversion rate you’ll need to target sites that are most likely to respond to your link request.

Take the time to weed out the irrelevant contacts and you’ll gain a higher conversion rate in terms of bloggers who will want to link to you.

Use tools like Hunter.io to find people’s emails.

#5 Read the guidelines

Think guidelines aren’t important?

Think again.

An outreach email that says something like, “Hey there. I’d love to brainstorm some ideas with you on how we can promote our products better.”

The recipients immediate thought will be, “Why would I want to help someone with their campaign idea? It’s their job.”

Simply put, it’s the incorrect approach. Come up with an idea before you actually start sending the emails – this could be anything from a guest post topic to a product review angle.

There will be times when the blogger will actually want to talk things out or share their ideas with you. In this case, it’s best to have an idea of what they’d want in order to convince them to participate. Think about what matters for them and start from there.

Keep in mind that what matters for them doesn’t always concern payment. Some bloggers are just looking for an opportunity to get some awesome content for their blog, while others will want a product they can review.

Focus on your target’s wants and you’ll have an easier time convincing them to participate.

#6 Make a phone call

In this age of instant communication and emails, will a phone call really work?

A cold call to a blogger before sending out any kind of email will most likely be a bad idea.

But a well-placed call after a few emails exchanged can really prove to be helpful.

Consider these situations:

A phone call can be the push you’re looking for if the blogger is undecided.

You can answer any questions or concerns in real time.

A call is much more personal compared to an email, which can build a trusting relationship early on.

You set yourself apart from the other marketers when you make a phone call.

Keep in mind that a phone call requires careful judgment and it should be done at the right time.

Granted, there are some bloggers who prefer to deal solely via email, but it can’t hurt to try. A phone call can be the deciding factor in convincing a blogger to work with you.

#7 Always. Be. Testing

There’s always room to improve your email outreach.

To see how well you’re doing, you should always be testing and measuring key metrics.

Email clients such as Mailshake allow you to track vital elements in your email campaign, i.e. opens, response rates, etc. and even enable you to do some split testing.

You wouldn’t want to go full automation though, because outreach still requires some sort of personalisation, or that “human touch”.

You can achieve better balance by testing out key factors such as opening sentences, sign offs and subjects. These elements can be replicated for all your email without affecting the human aspect, and yet they can be effective in improving open and response rates.

If you don’t want to use an email client, you can record your tests in a spreadsheet. The important thing is to make sure you’re keeping track of tests, whichever way you do it.

By keeping track of what works and what doesn’t, you’ll eventually get the winning formula.

Keep in mind that not all bloggers will respond to the same formula, so keep on working, tweaking and striving towards success!

Conclusion

Optimising your outreach for link building campaigns is important if you want to make the most of your time.

The higher the conversion rate, the more traffic your site gets and the more revenue it makes.

Now that you’ve read my tips for improving your email outreach for link building, it’s time to stop thinking and start improving!

It’s truly possible to get double or even triple your current conversion rate if you follow my advice. This alone can make a huge difference in both marketing performance and your site’s success.

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