fragments of a blue ruin
Is there any sweeter smell? Fresh baked hardback books, just like mama used to make. The Deluxe Edition is now on sale at Exalted Funeral, so all my North American friends can now purchase a copy (if President Brandon's bungling on gas prices has left you with any dollars in your pockets of course. I… Continue reading AMERICAN VAARN
They were made to be devoured, a divine gift from GAEA to Her charges. Each adult weighs more than two men, the flanks beneath their soft white skin laden with fat. Their eyes and ears are weak, their legs likewise. They were never intended to run. Within the pliant confines of their frames, twinned… Continue reading FEASTBEAST
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
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
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