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Truth & Justice: More Power

24/3/08 - I've just released a short supplement to Truth & Justice, the PDQ superhero game from Atomic Sock Monkey Press. Entitled More Power, it's a resource for creating powers in any T&J game, building on my experience of converting my Legends Walk setting.
 

• A few short optional rules ideas.
• Mini-articles about the versatility of Super Scale and Vulnerabilities, size levels and themed powers.
• Over 40 power write-ups - some familiar, some widely applicable and some just a little bit quirky.

It's a 24-page PDF, price $3.95, available from Your Games Now, RPGNow and DriveThru and arriving shortly at Indie Press Revolution.

The Arsenal of Heaven

23/3/08 - I'm pleased to announce that this is now out! When it started it was going to be a quick and simple project: well, we all know what happens to those.

It's a new entry in the NUGGETS series, based around the same very short basic rules. The premise is that modern people somehow acquire the power items of ancient mythic figures - Thor's hammer, Monkey's wishing staff, the sandals of Hermes and so on - and get entangled in conflicts with shape-twisted "demons" from outside our world as well as other obstacles both magical and mundane. Arsenal is written as a framework - it can be run in lots of different styles, from young people taking on an atmospheric and scary world they never suspected to higher-powered anime-style monster hunters.

You can get it from the usual outlets as a 68-page 6"x9" book, in PDF and as a hardcopy from IPR (currently on pre-order) and Lulu.

Update update

31/1/08 - Oops, another long gap. You haven't missed a lot though.

The main thing to flag up is that Silver Branch products are now on sale through Indie Press Revolution! My store there currently has all the Questers, Legends Walk and NUGGETS products in PDF, and the Questers and Legends Walk - Truth & Justice Edition mainbooks in print. The commission rate is just about the lowest of the sales channels I use, so obviously I'll be happy if you do your shopping there! Plus, I'm in the company of lots of other great small press products that are worth your attention.

The earlier-mentioned job didn't last till the end of the year, partly because that work-life balance never did quite gel. Currently being a man of leisure (if not means) I've got a draft of The Arsenal of Heaven out to some folks for feedback and hopefully playtest, and am working on Jaws of the Six Serpents. (A few of you might have seen a mock-up of the Jaws book at Dragonmeet in December. Here's the cover.) Getting a revised Albion out this year is now a firm plan.

Update

7/10/07 - Wow, long time since the last bit of news! First thing to say is that I missed highlighting the release of Pantheon: Mesopotamia for Legends Walk - Truth & Justice Edition, with gods, heroes and monsters from the ancient civilisations of Sumer and Babylon in the region that is modern Iraq. That's available from the usual outlets.

The second thing is that I started a full-time job in August, which was a bit of a shock to the system and is the main reason why no other new stuff has appeared. Unfortunately the plan involving a rich widow didn't work out, so we're all stuck with this one instead. Things are going to be slow and erratic, but I hope to get a better grasp on the old work-life balance and make some progress on projects that are sitting part-finished.

What might those be, you ask? Jaws of the Six Serpents is a sword-and-sorcery style fantasy game using the PDQ system, aiming to be self-contained in a small volume. It'll have its own setting and notes for using it in other worlds towards the pulpy/gritty end of fantasy. I've got pretty much all the art in place, just need those troublesome words! The Arsenal of Heaven is a new addition to the NUGGETS line, a bit more substantial than its predecessors, about modern-day folks who gain the power items of ancient mythic figures - Thor's hammer, Monkey's staff, etc - and get embroiled in supernatural battles. It's looking like a particularly good fit for the teen supernatural subgenre. And beyond that, I have a twinkle in my eye for an Albion - Reforged Edition, to correct the wobbly start that my most long-term project got. Tinkering earlier in the year made a promising start by getting rid of a bunch of rules complications and making some layout improvements, and of course there's the content for the GM's book that's never reached publication.

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