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Questers of the Middle Realms – second edition

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Questers coverA new edition of this system-light, affectionately humorous take on traditional fantasy games is now out.

You can get the pdf over at DriveThru and RPGNow. A print version will be coming soon.

Questers was my first product using Chad Underkoffler’s light and flexible PDQ system, way back in 2006. There’s been a print version available through Lulu, but as a thin Letter-sized book it was never a satisfying artifact, which led me to do much better with ‘Jaws of the Six Serpents’. Over the last few years I’ve wanted to do a fixed version and make it available through the integrated print option at DriveThru. Finally we’re getting there!

This is really a revised version. The rules and content are pretty much unchanged. But it’s got a new layout and section structure, making it more like Jaws. It’s had another editing pass, and some artwork changes. And it now incorporates the old mini-supplements ‘Character Assistant’ and ‘Ten Magical Thingies’.

Previous pdf purchasers on DriveThru and RPGNow who are set up to receive publisher mailings have been sent a link to get a free update.

 

New Jaws product – The Blizzard’s Teeth

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Gosh, it’s a long time since I updated here! I’ve got a new product to let you know about.

blizzards-teeth-cov-200The Blizzard’s Teeth is a Jaws of the Six Serpents adventure of fantasy survival horror by Scott Dorward, designed for convention or one-shot use.

A set of provided characters are drawn together at an isolated keep while a deadly storm howls outside. They’re a dubious lot with secrets and agendas that will drive events. Will they work together in the face of a terrifying enemy?

What you get: the adventure in the same book format as previous Jaws products, plus the player character information repeated on Letter-size pages.

Check it out at DriveThruRPG.

Notes

You may also be able to adapt this for use with ongoing characters, if you really want to. You could certainly adapt it for other systems, and there’s a box on the very simple workings of PDQ to help.

This adventure has bad characters making unpleasant choices. It’s probably not suitable for pre-teen players.

 

Video review of Rocket Amoeba

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The Gentleman Gamer has added my Rocket Amoeba RPG rules toolkit to his video review series!

That was a nice surprise this morning. Particularly as he liked it, and picked up on its simplicity and value for new GMs or running something at short notice – things I was aiming for when I wrote it.

Give it a look-see. It’s a shade under 15 mins.

He also did a video review of Jaws of the Six Serpents back in February, which I cruelly neglected to blog about.

 

Jaws in Bundle of Holding

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This week, the Bundle of Holding ‘Fantastic Valor’ offer gives you great games in pdf at a knock-down price – including Jaws of the Six Serpents.

Bundle of Holding is industry stalwart Allen Varney’s project to give gamers great deals and raise some money for charity. In this package you also get Beast Hunters, High Valor, Hellas, Honor & Intrigue, Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies and Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries – for what it would normally cost to buy one of them! The offer runs till Friday.

GM’s Day sale at DriveThru and RPGNow

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In the DriveThru calendar it’s March 4th for GM’s Day! This annual sale gives you 25% off a whole load of PDF products.

I missed getting officially included due to being off gryphon-trekking amid the moons of Jupiter, or some equally manly and spectacular reason.

The good news is, I’ve knocked 25% off all my products anyway, so you can add them to your basket alongside the other cool stuff. Hooray! The sale runs for a week and a bit.

Go here for the goodies.

Try a new game in the new year – sale this week

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Happy new year! DriveThruRPG and RPGNow are running a 40% off promotion for the next week to encourage people to check out a RPG they haven’t tried before. I put Albion in, and there are loads of other goodies too.

Not content with that, because I’m in with the cool publishing kids (yo!) I can give you the super sekrit code happynyng2013 for an extra 15% off – put it in the box on the check out page.

So if you were thinking of giving Albion a go, now would be a good time! You can check out the free preview first if you like: the link is at the bottom of the Albion page, or it’s available as a free product on DriveThru and RPGNow.