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13th Age in Glorantha, Chapter 1 Summary
13th Age in Glorantha will contain around twelve chapters. That’s too much to summarize in a single blog post, so this tour of the work-in-progress book starts with the first chapter: Initiations. As...
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Note the elf bow
While I've been wrapped up in the 13th Age in Glorantha Kickstarter, there's been a whole lot of gaming bursting out of other pocket universes, including a second edition I've been wanting for years....
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Talk Write Talk Write
I'm not sure I've had a more satisfying interview than the podcast episode that Jeff Richard and I recorded with the Idle Red Hands crew last week! Jeff and I wove between Glorantha, 13th Age, and 13th...
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Jonathan Calls on the Gods
My 13th Age collaborator Jonathan Tweet occasionally uses this space to write a guest blog on a gaming topic. Today he's introducing the gods of Glorantha to 13th Age players. He opens with a truth...
View ArticleThe Sword Vale Death Quest
I’m writing up some examples of what 13th Age in Glorantha will feel like in play. Terms and mechanical elements are subject to change.This first example has a key player character devoted to Humakt....
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The One Unique Thing in Glorantha
(How did this Lunar mage break into the blog? See Oriane's story below.)Four days left in the 13th Age in Glorantha Kickstarter, and I'm having fun writing up pieces that are new to one or the other of...
View ArticleWhy Jonathan Loves the Red Moon
When my 13th Age collaborator Jonathan wants to blog about game-stuff, he does it here. We're in the last four days of our 13th Age in GloranthaKickstarter, and today Jonathan wants to talk about the...
View ArticleComposing the 13th Age
Here’s a uniquely wonderful experience I never imagined having: spending the last year commenting and kibitzing as James Semple and his team of composers and live musicians created the 13th Age...
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Six Kobolds walk into a bookstore. . . .
I'm used to getting together with friends for gaming on Wednesday night. But this Wednesday is different, with a different set of friends, and we'll be on a panel at a bookstore talking about games...
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Soon you will fly on dragon back!
I'm celebrating the imminent launch of the 13th Age Monthly!I'm also celebrating what may be my favorite cover ever, painted by Lee Moyer as an upgrade of the Feathered Crown illustration he and Aaron...
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101 Not So Simple Monster Templates
I like this recent 13thAge-compatible DIY monster tool from Rite Publishing. The book has a not so simple origin story. It first came out in 2011 as a Pathfinder sourcebook written by Steven D....
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Monk & Thief
There are two great new 13th Age books in different stages of imminence this week. Kick! Greg Stolze’s TheForgotten Monk is the first 13th Age novel! It’s on Kickstarter to be published by Pelgrane’s...
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Where dragon riders came from
[art by Rich Longmore]Dragon Riding is the first issue of the 13th Age Monthly subscription that started a couple weeks ago. You can pick up a subscription tothe 13th Age Monthly for the yearly price...
View ArticleMonk & Frogfolk Today, GottaCon in Victoria Friday
Greg Stolze’s TheForgotten Monk 13th Age novel is wrapping up its Kickstarter in a few hours. Jonathan Tweet and I are on deck to write short stories using Greg’s characters and the novel is huge fun...
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My playtest feedback process
I'm just about to start going through playtest feedback for 13th Age in Glorantha. I thought readers of this blog might be interested in how I process playtest feedback for 13th Age books.Sometimes I...
View ArticleHooray for GottaCon!
GottaCon in Victoria, the first weekend of March, is a wonderfully balanced gaming convention I recommend to anyone in the Pacific Northwest.By balanced, I mean that the convention manages to make...
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Hillfolk won't wait
I don't think you can go wrong paying $6.95 at the Bundle of Holding to get hold of Robin D. Laws' Hillfolk and diverse series pitches from a weighty proportion of the skilled rpg writers in the...
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Epic Spell Wars: Creatures of the Game Expansion Duel at Mount Tabletop
No, that's not the actual title of the soon-to-arrive sequel to Epic Spell Wars in the subject line. I don't actually know the title of the expansion yet. That's the kind of detail I'm OK learning as a...
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Reaper Bones, broos, and frogfolk
I've been slowly unpacking my first ever box of Reaper Bones miniatures from Kickstarter. It's the Bonesylvania set. My first surprise came on day two. I'd pulled out one bag and opened it, taking out...
View ArticleWhat the world needs now, is another freaking zombie
This newly arrived 13th Age zombie has two inspirations. First, I've been reading Jason Sholtis' compilation of The Dungeon Dozen: Random-Tables for Fantasy RPGs. "Reading" may be the wrong word, but...
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