Welcome to the eighth post in a series of Design Diaries for Rangers of a Broken World by the creator Leon Richardson: … The Coral Coast, the Tracker, and Volcanic Sceafing, are my absolute babies. Tracker is my Problem Child, the class I had to work on and rework and rework again until it ended […]
Welcome to the seventh post in a series of Design Diaries for Rangers of a Broken World by the creator Leon Richardson: Tomyris, the Sky, the Cavalier.
Welcome to the sixth post in a series of Design Diaries for Rangers of a Broken World by the creator Leon Richardson: … “Survival” just screams “mountains”, doesn’t it? Maybe it’s another function of living in Western Canada, but I knew pretty early that I needed a mountain survivalist. A friend once took a group […]
Welcome to the fifth post in a series of Design Diaries for Rangers of a Broken World by the creator Leon Richardson: … I’m Canadian, so when I think “survival challenge” I don’t need to look much further than my own region. One of the first classes to materialize in Rangers of a Broken World […]
Status: Crowdfunding complete. Pre-orders open in late July. Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts is a 128-page expansion for the Blades in the Dark roleplaying game — containing a treasure trove of lore, setting material, and alternative mechanics John Harper developed over the years for use in Blades campaigns. … The lore goes deeper, your […]
Welcome to the fourth post in a series of Design Diaries for Rangers of a Broken World by the creator Leon Richardson: … After a long time spent trying to spice up a pretty traditional combat system, I got a 2 AM message from Kathleen (producer of Sword of Symphonies as well as a cast […]
Welcome to the third post in a series of Design Diaries for Rangers of a Broken World by the creator Leon Richardson: … Rangers of a Broken World is a game about hope. It has been ever since I first started writing it! It contains my hope for a future where people come together to […]
Welcome to the second post in a series of Design Diaries for Rangers of a Broken World by the creator Leon Richardson: … Whenever designing a game, or a setting and ruleset for an existing game, I always want to get weird with magic. I was never satisfied with spell lists after getting my fill […]
Welcome to the first (of many to come) in a series of Design Diaries for Rangers of a Broken World by the creator Leon Richardson: … I was listening to a podcast (Dan Carlin’s excellent Hardcore History) late one night, back when I was working graveyard shift surveillance. The host mentioned the munitions still buried […]
Blades ’68 is an official supplement for Blades in the Dark, moving the timeline forward 100 years to the swinging 60s. Across the Shattered Isles, it is the Age of Consensus. Superstition has been replaced by the superior values of science, conformity, and consumerism. It is a world at peace. Or that’s what they try to tell […]