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The Deluxe Edition hardcover is out in the world, and judging by my social media feed the packages have been arriving in a lot of homes already! Huge thanks to everyone who bought a copy. Games Omnivorous are sold out of the first printing, and we at Antipode Zines have also sold our last copy.… Continue reading Summer News
This is not a drill! The Deluxe Edition hardback is available in the EU via Games Omnivorous and Antipode Zines in the UK. It will soon be stocked at Exalted Funeral in the US, along with other retailers who will be revealed in due course. A sample of the new artwork What's inside the book?… Continue reading VAULTS OF VAARN: DELUXE EDITION RELEASE
To mark the impending release of the Deluxe Edition hardback, I'm hosting a Vaults of Vaarn game jam on itch.io. The Vaarn Summer Jam is a non-ranked game jam, where entrants are invited to contribute submissions relating to Vaults of Vaarn, and science-fantasy roleplaying games in general. Entries can be adventures, maps, artefacts, NPCs, art packs, or… Continue reading THE VAARN SUMMER GAME JAM
I'm back for a sixth dose of Monsters in the Machine. To re-read our previous entry click here, or you can go back to the start and see how it all began. To quickly re-cap what's going on, this is a follow-up to an earlier creative session, where I feed an AI entries from the Vaults… Continue reading MONSTERS IN THE MACHINE 6: RE-RETRIBUTION
The Deluxe Edition hardback is a compilation of the first three issues of Vaults of Vaarn. I have generally restricted the changes to correcting obvious errors and expanding on some parts of the core rules that were ambiguous. An example would be that the first issue includes several monsters that dealt damage directly to a… Continue reading WHAT’S CHANGED IN THE DELUXE EDITION?
I am excited to finally announce Vaults of Vaarn: Deluxe Edition, a hardback compilation of the first three issues of Vaults of Vaarn. I've been feverishly working on this book all year and the book is now out! Buy from Antipode Zines here or Games Omnivorous here. In the US it is available via Exalted… Continue reading VAULTS OF VAARN: DELUXE EDITION
I couldn't stay away. Monsters in the Machine returns for a fifth installment. This is roughly the time that most franchises begin to go completely off the rails. Anyone who was involved with the original movie has long-since quit, and they're starting to get a bit desperate with the plot twists. Maybe the serial killer… Continue reading MONSTERS IN THE MACHINE 5: REVENGEANCE
I thought we'd do something a little different today, and talk about my process and making indie RPG stuff, specifically zines (which I'm defining here as self-published work that's shorter than book-length). Although I see myself as a newcomer to self-publishing, I've been doing it for over two years now, and I've learned some things… Continue reading How I Make Zines
The weapon stats given in the core zines aren't very complex. When it comes to mundane weapons, all you're really told is the basic form and a descriptive modifier, which has no set gameplay effect. They have a weight in item slots and a damage value: d6 for a light weapon, d8 for a medium… Continue reading ADVANCED WEAPON RULES
I'm back for another episode in my ongoing duel/duet with the OpenAI. I riff from it, it learns from me, and together we build something that neither of us could achieve alone. Also I prove conclusively that I'm the better writer and more creative. Anyway, bring on the monsters! Blightbeast Biological / SyntheticHD: 10, Armour:… Continue reading MONSTERS IN THE MACHINE 4: HUMAN AFTER ALL
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