A few words about Fulfilment!
Hi everyone! Today I want to talk about fulfilment, which I seldom talk about... and nor do many of the industry contacts I speak with. Whenever I do speak with...
Stretch Goals – Why I keep doing them “Wrong” (and why I’ll keep doing them “Wrong”) – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadesofvengeance/era-crueltide?ref=cksn75
Hi everyone! Stretch goals are a funny thing in crowdfunding. I always get the balance wrong. I get excited about any project I bring to Kickstarter, and my stretch goals...
Rules Build Worlds (more than you think)
At a recent convention, I ran a Creator Clinic to help people improve their games and storytelling. One thing I had to emphasise several times is rules are not an...
The Crueltide is coming… https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadesofvengeance/era-crueltide?ref=25lcdt
Hi everyone! Era: Crueltide was an idea I came up with last Christmas. Actually, it was already published last year in a very minimal way via The Era Zone Issue...
Yuletide’s not what is coming… it’s “Crueltide”! – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadesofvengeance/era-crueltide?ref=ah8owr
Hi everyone! The fated day is finally here! Era: Crueltide is now available on Kickstarter. For the craziest, most pun-filled game I've produced to date which also offers a deep...
About printing large books…! https://kick.com/ebonivon
Hi everyone! Today I’m going to talk to you about printing. I think this is something a lot of people don’t understand very well, especially when it comes to the...
“Does a Tabletop RPG really need an index?”
Hi everyone! Today I’m going to talk about indexing! I know, boring, right? It's certainly something that many creators don’t think is terribly important, judging by the indie roleplaying games...
RPG Session Design (especially for a big convention)
Hi everyone! Today, I am preparing for my next big roleplaying game convention. That made me think I would share some tips with you about how I prepare. At that...
Get Back Into the Consortium in Era: The Consortium Time-Travel Part 2 https://www.era-games.com/product/era-the-consortium-time-travel-campaign-part-2/
Ed and his team really did something special with this one. I thought the first Time Travel Campaign was pretty gruelling, but this time the stakes feel even higher. Many...
Change the Past to Save the Future with Era: The Consortium Time-Travel Part 1. https://www.era-games.com/product/era-the-consortium-time-travel-campaign-part-1
Sometimes survival of the species means changing everything about the world you were born into.The Consortium is in an uncontrollable crisis and humanity is almost getting destroyed. Only you can...
Era: Survival Core Rulebook is everything you need to survive on Gaia. But will you overcome a world where everything is trying to kill you? https://www.era-games.com/product/era-survival-core-rulebook-digital-2/
General James L. Constantin says, “In the first month, we had confidence born of ignorance. We thought we could fight for life, but mankind has always won. We were sorely...
Why Initiative Matters!
Hi everyone! Hi everyone. Today I want to talk about one of the most important moments in a tabletop role-playing game: the moment you enter combat. You’ve realised the enemy...
Edge of Survival: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadesofvengeance/era-survival-8th-anniversary?ref=56adz8
We watch them fall.Families, towns, entire cities disappear under the shadow of the Infection. From the safety of the last outpost, we record every struggle, every choice that costs a...
Era: Marscape… and more!
Hi everyone! Today, I thought I'd talk about Era: Marscape, which is a game I came up with some time ago. It was prompted by a conversation with another enthusiastic...
Era of Monsters: https://www.era-games.com/era-kaiju/
The world you knew is gone.What remains is a battlefield where titans rule. Steel cities crumble, oceans rise, and the ground itself shakes with every step you take. Since you...
Inside the Era: Bloodlines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEylr7iKuA
Set in a world where vampires, werewolves, hunters, and other supernatural forces fight for power in the shadows, Era: Bloodlines is the latest tabletop RPG built to use the flexible...
Era: Survival 8th Anniversary Edition is on Kickstarter now – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadesofvengeance/era-survival-8th-anniversary?ref=btnehg
Hi everyone! Ed, here! Today we take a brand new step in the world of Era: Survival: The 8th Anniversary Definitive Edition is on Kickstarter now. [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadesofvengeance/era-survival-8th-anniversary?ref=btnehg] So join us...
Marked: https://www.era-games.com/era-hitman/
You don’t notice anything at first. Then little things start to feel wrong. The streetlight outside your window flickers at the exact same time every night. The cameras in the...
Intern’s battle: https://www.era-games.com/the-internship/
Oh, you made it in? Congratulations, intern. Seriously. That first email feels good, right? Let me guess. They told you there's one permanent spot. That all you have to do...
Saving the world? Not my style.
I am a shark. A ninja. A walking biological experiment with a taste for adrenaline and, well, humans. When the alien dieselpunk robots landed, they didn’t ask questions. They just...
Creating a Tabletop RPG in an Hour!
Hi everyone! I've recently been running a couple of workshops at MCM Comic Con, attempting to create Tabletop RPGs in an hour. These have been generally successful and tend to...
Convention Panel Preparation: Some Reflection
Hi everyone! I've been doing panels at major conventions here in the UK for almost 15 years now and I thought it might be a good time to give some...
Why did I start making Card Games?
Hi everyone. I reached a point in game creation some years ago now where I still felt that tabletop roleplaying games are fantastic - I love them, I play them...
Dragonmeet Spring – A Genuine Delight!
Hi everyone! It's been a long time since I wrote about a convention in detail on this blog. That's okay; to be honest, I think these can get a bit...
Busy, busy… ADAPT, Era: The Consortium expansions, Era: Survival project and more! – General Update
Hi everyone! I've been working hard for the last week at the day job, but still doing my best to find the time to look at various other things that...
“Adapt” Card Game (Coming Soon) – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadesofvengeance/adapt?ref=4u7u3e
Hi everyone! To tell you where Adapt came from, I have to take you back several years, before COVID-19, to a world that was a little different. At the time,...
So… what should these posts look like?
Hi everyone! Anyone who knows me directly knows that I'm a bit introverted and often struggle to reach out to people proactively - I can talk about my work when...
Era: The Consortium 10th Anniversary! Get 3 brand new Expansions free with the rules!
Hi everyone! It's an exciting day, because the Era: The Consortium 10th Anniversary Kickstarter is here! We've got some awesome rewards, let me take you through what's going on: Handy...
Welcome to the 10th Anniversary of Era: The Consortium!
Hi everyone! Era: The Consortium is 10 years old! I really had no idea when I started that 10 years would produce 200 books, comics, audio dramas, miniatures, novels, art...
Era: Friction is on Kickstarter now! Become an Action Hero and harness the power of Continuity Errors!
Hi everyone! I'm thrilled to tell you that our next game is finally ready - Era: Friction! The world is in trouble! Enter a world of huge explosions, over-the-top villains...
