Park life is a focus for many community members. Everyone has their own uses for a communal green space, even if it’s just walking through. Add colour to encounters or narratives in a public park, with these RPG characters. Old
Author: jfoster
Choir of Sorcerers
It has always been known that songs have power. This is exceptionally true for the magical choirs of Estral. Individually their mages have limited magical prowess, but when their voices sing together with the right harmony and rhythm they can
Deep Space Post Office
The galactic travel network has a weird and twisted shape. Rather than freely connecting all the stars, there are several key nexuses that funnel traffic to them. Mega-Station-Blue is the service centre for the Blue nexus point. It was built
Unwritten: Review in the Ages of Myst and Beyond
Back in November 2013, the game had a successful Kickstarter campaign, raising over $35,000. After a year and half of hard graft, the team delivered in May 2015. What is Unwritten? It’s an RPG of the Myst computer game series
Ink Fiend, A Monster Poem
Are you an artisan? Are you a novelist? Do you work with colour? Warning of danger near Traveller, Essayist, Songwriter. I warn of the Ink Fiend Demon stealer of words I warn of the Ink Fiend Demon killer of art.
Age of Legends Interviews
By the time you’re reading this there will be less than a day until the end of the Age of Legends Kickstarter. To hear us talking about the project, please check out these interviews. Hopefully they’ll convince you to talk about,
A History of Age of Legends
As the Kickstarter enters its second week, we’d like to tell you about the history of the project. Four years of work have yielded 100,000 words, 35 gods and 440 advantages. Not bad for our first game. A Beginning Back in 2009,
Four Household Spirits for 6d6 Magic
The fantasy world of 6d6 Magic is infested with all sorts of little magical creatures. The most encountered are the household spirits. Tiny divines, they have no grand power but can be very influential on our daily life. Tely –
Four Unusual Haunted RPG Locations
It’s the season for spooky things, the colour orange and pumpkin spice flavoured everything. Haunted houses are a staple of the terror genre, maybe even a cliche. As homes are meant to be safe places, their subversion into a place
The Great Reclined Statue
When the scouts found Neytune, 6th planet of the Acreon system, it was immediately clear there was something unique on the surface. Lying in the open on a vast steppe is a statue in a reclined pose. The size of
A Lady and A Sniper
To me, there’s something pleasingly incongruous in this image made available by the British Library. Taken from a work called “The Book of Ballads Ancient and Modern” it shows a lady in quite formal evening wear sighting a crossbow. Looks
The Polymorph Masquerade Ball
The vast and fertile plains of Etrya are covered in small and tiny city states. Once part of a larger empire, they are now independent dukes, lords, counts, princes and stadtholders. Locked into complicated family and political alliances the balance