Category: Planarch Codex: Astral Repository

Slowly working through my backlog…

Originally shared by J. Walton

Trying to get better about polishing up and posting all the stuff I have sitting around on my old computer’s hard drive. Here’s a free and slightly updated version of The Path of Ghosts for DW.

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/144228/Planarch-Codex-Path-of-Ghosts

So I know folks have long asked for a one-up version of Dark Heart (rather than the spreads), so I finally dug up the original files from my old computer and made one. I posted these new files on DriveThru/RPGNow and it should have sent a notice out to everyone who purchased it that way, but here it is for everyone who received their copy through the original Kickstarter. Please only share this link with other folks who already have it. I’ll probably take it down in a week or two, just FYI. And my next project is converting it to 6×9″, so I can put it up on Lulu as a POD print version.

https://corvidsun.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/planarch-codex-dark-heart.zip

As a bonus, here’s a sample of the Planarch booklet I’ve been working on most recently, which is currently called A Refining Fire. It’s like Dune + the Bible + the Royal Geographical Society combined. Various science-based cults known as “mystery halls” search for truth on a plane covered in red sands. Not sure if this one or one of the others will get finished first.

Originally shared by J. Walton

The final version of Planarch Codex: Wintry Plane is now available in PDF from DriveThru (both single-pages and spreads, zipped in a folder). The POD print version will remain available through Lulu.

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/142982/Planarch-Codex-Wintry-Plane

Hey Planarchs! I finally decided this supplement is done and put it up on Lulu for print sales. There’s more info on the post linked below. Thanks for your patience with the slowness of new Planarch materials emerging. I hope to have at least 2-3 things happening next year! (fingers crossed)

Originally shared by J. Walton

The Calvino Cycle or, If on a Wintry Plane a Freebooter, the second excerpt from the Planarch Codex, is now available in print form through Lulu. It is at a new 6×9″ size, matching the dimensions of Dungeon World, Class Warfare, and so on, but is a 32-page B&W saddle-stitched booklet printed in Lulu’s highest-quality paperback format.

It’s kind of a bizarre product that’s difficult to describe: it contains a series of short adventure seeds for Dungeon World that connect with many of the same themes as the first Planarch Codex module (Dark Heart of the Dreamer), but these seeds are interwoven within a frame story inspired by Italo Calvino’s classic postmodern novel If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler. Basically, the Planarch Codex series is an excuse for me to deconstruct and then rebuild our expectations for what a fantasy RPG product can be, inspired by postmodern literature, and this is definitely an attempt at doing that.

Ariel Cayce, in a brief review of Wintry Plane, said it’s “a very lyrical love-letter, with dungeoneering as its method and natality as its theme… When [Jonathan] says in self-depreciation that it’s a ‘weird’ adventure, what he means is that it’s adorable, lovely, and sincere.”

If you already purchased an earlier version of this booklet from me, or received one for free because you helped review or playtest it, I would like to offer you a copy of the new version for free as well. Just email me or plus me into a private thread with your address and I’ll send it along, since I can get copies at cost from Lulu. Folks I think might be in this category include: Lillian Cohen-Moore Jackson Tegu Ariel Cayce Lukas Myhan and anybody else who might have picked it up at GoPlay NW 2014. I’d also like to send copies to Claudia Cangini and Paolo Bosi, if you’re interested, since otherwise this booklet wouldn’t exist. In many ways, it’s also a love letter to all the Italian fans and translators of Dungeon World and the Planarch Codex. There are definitely more than a few “Easter eggs” in it for the Italian indie RPG community.

Late December is a terrible time to release a new product, so this is essentially a pre-release to thank everybody who’s supported my games over the past few years, giving you folks early access (if you want it and are not already buried in holiday expenses). Feel free to reshare if you want, but I’d honestly rather folks support Indie Mixtape Vol 2 if you have limited funds right now: http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/141681/Indie-Mixtape-Volume-2 

If you don’t care about print (or if shipping is too expensive), the final PDF version should be up on DriveThru/RPGNow shortly. The PDF is also currently available in one of Epidiah Ravachol’s terrific Epimas bundles, along with some other amazing games that I am honored to be alongside: http://www.worldswithoutmaster.com/epimas/

Love and thanks to you all! It’s great to have gotten another game product to this point.

http://www.lulu.com/shop/j-walton/planarch-codex-if-on-a-wintry-plane/paperback/product-21962956.html