Federation-Apocalypse Session 200b – Markov versus Marty

Meanwhile, Markov had been trying to track down that fat mage who’d snatched Tokif – and apparently a few more of his enslaved offspring – right out of coalition territory! He’d called him fat! He needed to be tracked down and eaten! He burst in on the young slaves he’d gotten from that “Kadia” place [...]

Exalted – Aden, The Lost World, and Mardi Gras

Specific areas within Aden include… The Lost World: This high plateau contains ten waypoints (slightly more than 7000 square miles), is surrounded by virtually unscalable cliffs (Charles would suggest taking the underground monorail network if you want to visit the area instead), and is broken up by several additional natural barriers (dramatic chasms, rivers of [...]

Indexing Updates; Player Blog Links

Here we have a selection of crosslinks to articles by one of the player/game masters who is currently involved in the Federation-Apocalypse (Eclipse d20), Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice (Exalted), and d6 Star Wars campaigns. As they say, better late than never – and this is definitely somewhat overdue. Exalted – The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice: [...]

Hedge Magic Heroes Part V

   Here we have the first part of the sample second level spells for the hedge magic spell list – effects at the top end of most hedge mages spellcasting abilities. After all, few hedge mages either need, or have the talent required to cast, spells with the raw, heady, power of Fireball or Fly. [...]

And going live…

   There’s no major article today because I’ve been busy getting Eclipse II set up for print and .PDF downloads.    It’s now available in print HERE, and in .PDF HERE. I’ll be adding secondary links as I get them set up.    Eclipse II, and Eclipse III (Coming in the next few months) will both [...]

Eclipse II: The Libram Incarna

   Here we have a product announcement: Eclipse II: The Libram Incarna is just about finished, and will be going up sometime in the next few days. Eclipse III: The High Canon should be following in the next month or so. Both of them will be about 250 pages, and will be free supplements with [...]

Shadowrun III Basics

   For today, it’s a one-page summary sheet for the Shadowrun III game mechanics. And yes, that’s too condensed to actually learn to play with, but it should suffice to keep things clear for those who are joining in without knowing the system. To keep it formatted properly, I’m putting it up as a .PDF [...]

End of the year updates

   Well, there may not be too much going up today since – with the cancellation of the d20 license – I’m busy updating some of the free stuff and purchasable downloads.    Yes, I know: “Free Stuff” always gets some attention. We’ll, there’s some in the download box on the lower right. The stuff [...]

Latest Material

   Since you can now keep a post stuck to the top of the front page, here’s an index for the most recent material -  what’s been put up in the last month or so, and everything since the last major index page updates. d20 Material: The Introduction to Atheria series covers the various realms [...]

Scion: Hero Legend Cards

   For today, I’ve completed the Scion Legend Cards for White Wolf’s Scion trilogy (Scion: Hero, Scion: Demigod, and Scion: God). They’re designed to let the players influence the plot, build up to single mighty attacks rather than slowly whittling away at epic menaces, and to make odd plot twists and cinematic effects a part of [...]

The Mandates of Heaven

   For today, it’s a selection from the Dragonlore Multipower – the slots which make up the Mandate of Heaven.    These are the some of the powers that get adult dragons worshiped as gods. The “mandates” are not necessarily dramatic. In fact, their manipulations are comparatively minor; it’s just that they cover a massive radius. [...]

A present for Baba Yaga

   Next up for today is another download  – the Baba Yaga Player’s Packet. Baba Yaga is an extremely flexible – and rather fast-playing and lethal – universal RPG. Although the default setting is WWII, with the characters as members of partisan resistance movements in the Ukraine which operate out of hidden magical enclaves (and thus [...]

Adam, Praetorian Nightmare

   Here we have a high-level threat from the Federation-Apocalypse campaign. Fortunately, Adam does have some weaknesses: like any Praetorian, he is quite unable to use – or even be directly enhanced by – magical and psionic effects and has few defenses against such things beyond his saving throws. If you want to use Adam in [...]

Neko Miyako

   Well, first up for today its another horrible character for Legend of the Five Rings – Neko Miyako, a high-ranking Cat Clan Samurai. Given that – over the last 50+ sessions – the characters have built up a tremendous experience point total and an awful lot of acquired advantages, Neko’s point total is quite [...]

Eclipse: The Codex Persona Web Expansion

   Well, the reconstructed Eclipse Web Expansion is ready for download, and just barely on schedule. This version has been updated with the basic 3.5 races and a few other race examples, as well as the Merchant L1-20 design example, the Errata and FAQ, and a few other items as well as the rules for [...]

d20 Future Items

   First up for today – and possibly last, depending on other activities – we have the d20 Mecha Design System from the IronWinds campaign. Unfortunately, this is a pdf download only: I just couldn’t get the formatting to work reasonably on the blog.    Secondarily, since the library will be closed on Wednesday, and I [...]

Exalted: Modern

   Today we have a set of 80-odd new Solar Charms from our Exalted: Modern game, although they’re not exclusively for modern skills. You can also download a PDF version (with bookmarks and graphics) HERE. Since its game night tonight (Champions, at the University of Tennessee, starting at around 7:00-7:30), that’s probably going to be [...]

Onwards with the White Wolf

   Well, the first items for today are Zareth Eleris – a sample Dualistic Exalted – and the note that I’ve updated the White Wolf page with a link to the World of Darkness Point Buy Character Creation Rules, so that you don’t have to either rummage in the old posts or the download box [...]

Shareware Versions Up

   Well, the projects are complete: the shareware version of The Practical Enchanter is now available through OneBookShelf or RPGNow.Com and the shareware version of Eclipse: The Codex Persona should be going up at midnight (where their server is). When it does, I’ll update the link here and on the various sample character pages. I’ll be [...]

Project Status

   Well, Danielle has some questions for everyone in the Legends of the Five Rings game (see below). After considerable fighting with the various publishing sites, the direct-sale (and thus cheaper) editions of Eclipse: The Codex Persona and The Practical Enchanter are up, as well as the bookmark-indexed versions of both of them (Eclipse Here, [...]