18 Jul, 2025

Be a Villain in 5 minutes: https://www.era-games.com/product/evil-overlord-core-deck/

World domination sounded glamorous on paper! But here you are, stuck in another minion management nightmare. They're bickering, betraying, and honestly? Half of them couldn’t strategize their way out of...

13 Jul, 2025

The Weight of a Large Body of Work…

Hi everyone! I thought it would be interesting today to review what having a large body of work can often mean in practice. Now that I've published seventeen Tabletop Roleplaying...

31 May, 2025

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...

18 May, 2025

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...

11 May, 2025

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...

03 May, 2025

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...

12 Apr, 2025

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...

06 Apr, 2025

“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,...

29 Mar, 2025

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...

06 Nov, 2024

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...

20 Oct, 2024

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...

09 Oct, 2024

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...

23 Jul, 2024

How to be Creative – My Method for ensuring YOUR Creative Projects Start… and Finish!

Hi everyone! I believe that everyone can be Creative! A lot of people ask me how I do it, and I like to help them wherever I can, because I...

25 Jun, 2024

Shades of Vengeance: Success at Con-Densed Summer

Shades of Vengeance, the innovative tabletop developer and publisher, made a resounding impact at the recent Con-Densed Summer convention. Our presence was felt throughout the event, with Era games featured...

11 Jun, 2024

Era: Balam on Kickstarter now [Funded] – Jump in your fighter and protect humanity from aliens:

Era: Balam is on Kickstarter now! This space fighters game is an exciting and dynamic game of space-based dog fights against an unending alien armada bent on the destruction of...

02 Apr, 2024

Empty Shell – Era: The Consortium Novel on Kickstarter now!

Hi everyone! I've just finished a novel in the Era: The Consortium universe and you can join us now to bring this story to life on Kickstarter! Earth is a...

30 Oct, 2023

Era: Dragonsong (High Fantasy TTRPG) on Kickstarter now!

Hi everyone! We've just launched our latest game, Era: Dragonsong, on Kickstarter. I say our latest game, but the truth is that this has been around for ten years, ever...

06 Sep, 2023

Era: The Empowered 5th Anniversary Edition

Hi everyone! We've just launched our latest Kickstarter, and it's a big one: the 5th Anniversary of Era: The Empowered has prompted us to go to Kickstarter with a new...

28 Apr, 2023

Stardust Falling – A Novel from the Era: Lost Legend Universe – is on Kickstarter now!

Hi everyone! We're still working away over here, and the team and I have been working in particular on the next novel that we want to bring to you from...

20 Oct, 2022

How do you start (and complete!) a Creative Project?

We believe that everyone has the ability to create! We feel that people should be helped bring their stories and visions to life as a creative project! After a decade...

29 Aug, 2022

Violette Audiobook: Rampage is Angry!

Yeah, he does that! Seems he's annoyed by the level of attention Violete is getting in "his" story! Make sure you check out the Kickstarter and soothe his ego! The...

18 Aug, 2022

Violete: Unstoppable Audio Drama is on Kickstarter now!

Hi everyone! We've just launched our latest Kickstarter, which is a brilliant audio dramatisation of Violete: Unstoppable. It's the third and final of our Empowered shorts, so check it out...

08 Aug, 2022

Find out what are we delivering this year! Part 3: Shades of Vengeance (Games & Novels)

Hi everyone! Today, we're doing the third and final post about what's coming this year, exploring what's coming from Shades of Vengeance in terms of RPGs, Card Games, Novels and...

07 Aug, 2022

#AudioDramaSunday Experience a Titan’s Rise in the Consortium!

This #AudioDramaSunday, join Elliot Draigon as he enters Consortium society on Taranis, something which is much harder than he could ever realise as a 10-year-old child! A Titan's Rise is...

01 Aug, 2022

Join us on Kickstarter now for new and awesome Prototype Games in The Era Zone 2022!

Era d10 is a fantastically adaptable Rule Set! Over a decade, we've brought 10 different game lines to life with Era d10... and we've had dozens more ideas that we...

31 Jul, 2022

#AudioDramaSunday Survive the Post-Apocalypse through Life on Gaia

This #AudioDramaSunday, you can experience the post-apocalypse in the safest possible way: listen to it, read by a scotsman! Life on Gaia explores the wasteland from our Tabletop RPG, Era:...

24 Jul, 2022

#AudioDramaSunday Experience the Consortium with Radio Free Taranis

This #AudioDramaSunday, you can enter the Consortium with Midnight Terry as your guide! Radio Free Taranis is an audio drama based around the life of a disenfranchised member of Taranis's...

18 Jul, 2022

#GamesOriginMonday – Era: The Consortium

Eleven years ago, Ed started writing Era: The Consortium. That was the first time you would would identify the game we now have. But the roots of the Six GM's...

Ed. Text: Jluy 11th, 2022. Ed. #gamemaster monday.

11 Jul, 2022

#GamesMasterMonday – Ed | Shades of Vengeance

Hey everyone! This week we have a special #GamemasterMonday with not only a GM, but the creator of the Era Universe - Ed! Ed's love for tabletop gaming can be...

05 Jul, 2022

Want to try Era: Hitman? Join our session!

Hi everyone! We're running a session of Era: Hitman to celebrate our current Kickstarter on the 8th July at 7:30pm BST (2:30pm EDT)! Everyone is welcome to join us for...

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