We played our final session of The 23rd Letter play test this week, and wrapped up the story of Poppy and her baby. After recuperating overnight (under Joy’s watchful care, and a handy saline drip), Poppy recovered enough from her ordeal to tell the group about what had happened, which really just confirmed all their…
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Venting Pyrokinetics
Our fourth and fifth in-game sessions of the 23rd Letter saw quite a lot of action! I’ll give a brief summary, and then talk about some of the rules that I think were interesting. I’ll put a * and a number on some rules I’m going to talk about at the end. Everybody woke up…
The 23rd Letter, 3rd Edition playtest doc
It’s out there in the wild. We are inviting you to the Playtest. Either join our little Discord or, if you already own The 23rd Letter 2nd Edition, check your inbox as you’ll have been sent a link. The highlights are New character options in a new archetype-based system More focus on The Network Explosive…
A precog walks into a bar …
Now a few weeks into the first play-test of the 3rd edition of The 23rd Letter, I wanted to post some updates on what’s been going in the game, and a few reflections as both Referee and game designer. First off, let’s talk about the party, which in this edition is by default a Cell…
Why Yeezy?
So, you know we have switched from out ERIS House System to the YZE for the Third Edition and we have been asked why. The first reason is that it’s a decent system. It’s pretty grounded, pretty lethal and abstracts a lot of the bookkeeping (reducing crunch while maintaining verisimilitude). We are using the Step…
The 23rd Letter 3rd Edition
So, we have been working a lot on this. The rules are probably 90% complete but we keep finding little places where we think a rule or guideline is needed. Like today it was clarifiying how Hideouts function mechanically in relation to Heat from the authorities. We are starting to look at design and layout…
EXCESSION: Session 1
Excession is a new low-to-mid powered superhero game using the Year Zero Engine. Session 1 Excession is a privately owned non profit organisation that seems to have unlimited money and a private army. Louis and Jana are two hard chargers for the Excession organisation. Louis is a German-American with a real love of animals and…
Beyond Human: Progress Report
Every day brings us a little closer to release day. Today was about defining the attributes better and working on the rules for Pushing and Channelling powers.
New Project: Beyond Human
New? I’ve been working on this for a while. 2008. I wrote that in 2008. The project has advanced. It’s now 70 pages which puts it as the largest book I’ve made to date. The premise is that it’s a grounded superhero game. I mean, as grounded as superhero games can really be. It’s got…
The 23rd Letter, 3rd “Fury” Edition
Yeah, I wasn’t planning on having to talk about it so soon. Blog post isn’t even written. but… it’s set nearly thirty years later. The Psychic War as was died with the final end of the Cold War. Corporations figured out it’s easier to manipulate people with social media than fragile psychics. Many of the…
23rd Letter, 2nd Edition PDF
After a lengthy delay, I released the PDF of the second edition of The 23rd Letter. Anyone who has the print edition gets it free (so, if you have it, get in touch).? There’s a third edition (different time period, different metaplot) coming so don’t rush out and get it unless you want some amazing…
Silver Haired Sentinels: Superheroic Role-Playing in the Retirement Age
Take on the reigns of a retired superhero living out their lives in a retirement home with other seniors. Try and relive smome of your glory days while fighting authoritarian wardens, the rigours of modern life and a family that would rather they didn’t have to visit so often. Silver Haired Sentinels is a roleplaying…
Latest Project: Silver Haired Sentinels
I’ve been working on this for a while now – and just waiting on a few art pieces to be finished. So, what is it? Silver Haired Sentinels is a roleplaying game about the residents and staff of a Continuing Care Retirement Community. That would be interesting in itself but some of these Residents have…
Twilight Tangents: LEGION
I just started watching the Legion TV series (bought on iTunes) and it’s absolutely compelling. And then that made me think that it could easily be modelled using The 23rd Letter or Twilight:2000 with Twilight Tangents 1.0. David is obviously a Fury. But many of the rest of the abilities could easily be modelled.
Announcing Twilight Tangents – a multi-world sourcebook for Twilight: 2000 4th Edition
I’ve produced a couple of books for T2K4e but I’m really enjoying putting together this latest one. This book describes three alternate futures for the T:2000 game. Things to spice up the game. GET IT NOW on DTRPG Here’s some of the opening prose from one of the Tangents. For your own reasons, you joined…
WatchTower: The Game
After many games of WatchTower played using rules from other systems (primarily the classic Marvel Super Heroes game), Matt and I have knuckled down to start writing the actual WatchTower game. We were planning to start a new group and play a Supers game (Godlike was the original proposal), and before you know it we…
Glowing Eyes
Over the weekend I watched “The Darkest Minds”. A movie of the YA novel of the same name about some kids who gain superpowers (there are very few kids around as the ones who don’t gain superpowers tend to die). So it has shades of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a little Wild Cards (edited by…
Current work…writing scripts
For the last few months, on top of travelling and attending a bazillion courses, I’ve been writing. I’ve written five short scripts in the world of THE 23RD LETTER. I’ve written two more in the world of STATUS: REFUGEE. I’ve written one horror script. And I’m looking at writing some scripts based on FRONTIER and…
Awesome bollywood movie trailer is awesome
I’m not sure I ever need to watch another action movie again. That said – anyone interested in making a t23L movie?