Happy Friday Gamers and yes – the Tales of Argosa Kickstarter is live!! :DD
It’s going to run for 30 days but we do have Early Bird (72 hr) discounts for early Backers!!
Playtest PDF v5 also just released! The key tweaks are:
- Masterforged Items added to Valuables A table p.219.
- Special Metal Weapons added to Valuables B table p.220.
- Random Encounters noted on p.140 that to swap out creatures in the Encounter tables, roll on the Monster by HD table p.163 (I added numbers to the HD lists, although they are not always an exact die number, might be 1-13 for example, in which case just roll d12 or d12+1 etc). May require some improv eg a Slop Gorger for a desert might be a Sand Gorger, etc.
- Montages p.65 added that each failure might lead to a complication, cost, or setback.
- Artificer p.17 inserted a note about an “Alchemist” style variant: Remove Black Powder Weapon & Chaintooth Weapon, replace with Learn Poison 3, 7, 8, or 16 (from Poison table p.214).
- Minor Exploits p.78 added a line for random NPC Minor Exploits: roll 1d6 (i) Grab, (ii) Push, (iii) Prone, (iv) Daze, (v) Disarm, (vi) Blind.
- Barbarian p.21 Rage may now be loud or quiet, as the PC decides, each time they use it (ie does not auto negate stealth).
Bandit’s Keep Flick Through
Very grateful to Daniel over on Bandit’s Keep for this sponsored flick through video – if you don’t want to delve into Playtest PDF v5 straight away, this is an excellent overview!
Chat with Wes at DM Tales
Wes and I finally caught up on DM Tales for a friendly chat about Low Fantasy Gaming, Lowlife 2090, and of course Tales of Argosa! It was a real pleasure and I hope we can catch up again soon Wes!!
Project Sunflower
Dave McLees over at Faulty Wire Games has recently released Project Sunflower, a verdant and overgrown post apoc RPG where dread fungal infections mutate living things into horrible monstrosities! I MEAN JUST LOOK AT THAT PIC BELOW – Yeah they better run!!
The highlights for me include:
- 300 pages, with superb full colour art – 100 sweet sweet illos
- Complete game in one tidy tome 😀
- d10s & percentile system with exploding damage – oh yeah!
- 150+ weapons. Ah Dave hate to break it to you but there’s 365 days in a year – what you expect me to use the same weapon every day I mean whhaaattttt! SO MUCH CHOICE
- Urban chase and stealth procedures – boom!
- Classless, skill/attribute based advancement – nice nice melikey
- And sample missions!!
- GM Screen also available
Holy bejezus there’s a lot to like – go check it out peeps!!
Community Content
It’s a triumphant trio this time around – by Deus Noctua, Pemberfoot, and Logen Nein – Thanks very much for your contributions gents, greatly appreciated!!
- Goblin, Dhampir & Shepherd races by Deus Noctua: Link
- Mythold (revised) setting by Pemberfoot: Link
- The Mines of Perinthos adventure by Logen Nein: Link
I should also point out that we’ve released “Tales of Argosa Compatible” logos for use with future products under the Creative Commons licence. We will confirm the licence once the Kicstarter ends, but it will be CC BY-SA 4.0, which means you will be able to create and sell your own supplements, adventures, etc. We’ll also make a template Affinity Publisher document available online soon, for those who wish to use similar formatting.
Pickpocket Press 