What are your best non-combat adventures? I’m writing a few backgrounds, and would love to hear about political intrigue, exploration and heists!
What are your best non-combat adventures?
What are your best non-combat adventures?
Tag: James Hawthorne
Pirate World broke £4500 and gained a new class: The Astrophage!
Pirate World broke £4500 and gained a new class: The Astrophage!
Pirate World broke £4500 and gained a new class: The Astrophage!
The Astrophage is a star vampire: they feed on young, forgotten or dying gods, and then burn up the ichor they’ve drunk to break and shape time and reality. They are soulless voids who draw the very warmth from the air around them, and most races ostracise or murder suspected Astrophages at birth, seeing them as dire omens. The parasitic ghulfish are alone in revering the walking voids, and treat them as great prophets.
They have three main move paths, which involve:
* the hunting and feeding of little deities
* the aspects of their devoured meals, and how these change the Astrophage’s base nature
* expending the energy of a god to truly astounding effect.
The Astrophage has moves focused around hunting, draining and finally devouring planar entities. Be prepared to take on the gods themselves, and exploit their blood and power to your own ends: Prince of Persia/Shenkt style moves for slowing/ stopping and accelerating time, as well as moves focused around distorting reality to make the Astrophage a shifting, blurred assassin. As the Astrophage develops and devours more powerful gods, they gain access to even stranger abilities…
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2041872302/pirate-world-the-explosive-dungeon-world-fate-sour
Awesome Pirate World News!
Awesome Pirate World News!
Awesome Pirate World News!
Adrian Thoen is going to be writing a Lands of the Dead supplement for Pirate World; the Eternal Sea. I’ve seen a preview of it, and I reckon it looks totally awesome (one of the custom moves involves breaching a ship through into the afterlife). Here’s his words on it:
It’s an afterlife, a metaphysical eternal sea where dead sailors navigate the endless ocean, looking for a way to escape the nightmares of death and invade the living world. Along with it, have a few iconic locations that act as gateways to, and sometimes from the eternal sea – a giant whirlpool under a stormy sky, a cave on an island that rises above the waves only one day in the year, a mist that occasionally appears and spews out ghost ships
The Eternal Sea is going to be packed full of bombastic, powerful and dangerous mythical figures, plenty of ghost ships, and lots of interesting locations for the nearly departed to get into trouble with.
I can’t wait to see it. 🙂
In five minutes time I’ll be chatting about Pirate World on google hangouts, probably for an hour or so.
In five minutes time I’ll be chatting about Pirate World on google hangouts, probably for an hour or so.
In five minutes time I’ll be chatting about Pirate World on google hangouts, probably for an hour or so. Tune in here!
Pirate World Stretch Goals!
Pirate World Stretch Goals!
Pirate World Stretch Goals!
We’re currently at £2958, which is awesome! WE JUST BROKE £3000! Unlocked:
* Luncheon World adventures tailored for Pirate World (Escape Skull Island, Mermaids!
* 10 more awesome backgrounds
* New class: The Physicker. A damage dealing class with Leeches, Vital Humors, Miasmas.
* Location Creation guide: make Pirate World locations, like dead-leviathan hulks the ghulfish sail in, or underwater ruined cities, or an Amphib jungle temple buried in the swamp. Includes suggested traps, creatures, fronts and treasure for each.
Pirate World was fully funded in the first day!
Pirate World was fully funded in the first day!
Pirate World was fully funded in the first day! I’m totally ecstatic, and am finding it fairly difficult not to profess my undying love for you guys. I’ve got stretch goals planned, but I’m really looking to give the community what they want; let me know if there’s anything you’d love included!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2041872302/pirate-world-the-explosive-dungeon-world-fate-sour
Hey!
Hey!
Hey! I just wanted to say an extra special thankyou to you guys. The kickstarter hit 50% in the first six hours and not one bit of that wouldn’t have happened without this awesome community, never mind the really bloody cool game that Adam Koebel and Sage LaTorra gave everyone. So, thankyou guys, you’re awesome!
PIRATE WORLD LIVES!
PIRATE WORLD LIVES!
PIRATE WORLD LIVES!
Back it and get the playbooks RIGHT NOW. Like really, right now! Check it out!
It is so much more than just pirates! Chapters in the book:
* HIRELING OVERHAUL: a new change of direction that makes every hireling unique with their own custom moves
* BACKGROUNDS: customise your character from level 1 and develop them onwards!
* LUNCHEON WORLD: play Dungeon World with a sandwich in your hands in 30 mins, or over the internet, all while amazed at just how good a name that is.
* tons of beautiful, full page illustrations (in colour too!). It’s worth it for the art alone.
Not to mention the 7 classes that are designed to be as fun and fictionally potent as I could make them, just like the Brute.
I am SO excited to see copies of this printed and delivered, but I just can’t do it without you guys; if you like it, please tell your friends! I’m a one-man-machine right now and I definitely can’t reach everyone who’ll want this book, so any help you can give to get people playing exploding monsters would be AMAZING. Even if it’s just clicking share or tweeting about it, every little bit is so helpful.
If you’ve got any questions, I’ll be around (like seriously, I don’t have any time to sleep right now!)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2041872302/pirate-world-the-explosive-dungeon-world-fate-sour
GOOD NEWS! (backgrounds attached)
GOOD NEWS! (backgrounds attached)
GOOD NEWS! (backgrounds attached)
#pirateworld got a backup printing quote, and it’s cheaper than I had hoped! £25 UK/ $40 US/ €29.50 in EU.
That’s a hardback, 180 page with colour a4 (letter size) book delivered through your front door 🙂
Even better, I’ll be printing all the books in UK and distributing it myself, so I can offer a reward where I customise the books for people too! I’m so happy. As I’m feeling awesome, here’s a sneak preview of a few Backgrounds with a temporary layout! NB the cultist is my favourite, as it has a clear fictional progression that I’m looking to make in ALL the backgrounds.
Kickstarter goes live in 18 hours, ten minutes: at 12.01 pm British Time tomorrow!
Here’s the Fanatic, who recruits the unwilling into their crusade and turns crowds into weapons.
Here’s the Fanatic, who recruits the unwilling into their crusade and turns crowds into weapons.
Here’s the Fanatic, who recruits the unwilling into their crusade and turns crowds into weapons. Available free until the #pirateworld kickstarter begins on Friday.
Fanatics are crazy about whatever you decide. My favourite imagery is the captain (or first mate!) totally devoted to their ship and its laws, but they can be zealots for anything; volatile gods, royal families, dangerous churches or even natural stuff like fire or the deep ocean. I’d love to hear what Authorities you guys come up with, and what weird ceremonial weapons their champions will wield.
If you guys have wacky moves, reskins, Hireling ideas or pretty much anything, I’m intrigued!
There’s a few suggested Hireling profiles in the Hireling book, I’ll likely post these up later.
Unlike the class previews I’ve posted before, it’s a 2-page fully useable class with tons of moves! It’s only going to be available free at that link until the kickstarter begins, so grab it before Friday if you want it, or back the project and get all the full classes. NB. this preview doesn’t include most look additions, gear or a Pirate World third page.