07 Jan, 2026

adapt?ref=e342ey

Not every game needs a campaign, a huge rulebook, or hours at the table. Sometimes you just want something quick, silly, and strategic! Adapt is a game you can play...

27 Dec, 2025

Era Games – 2025 in Review

Hi everyone! When things move as fast as they do around here, it can be surprisingly hard to remember what happened at the beginning of the year. That, I think,...

14 Dec, 2025

Doom Patrol Part 4: I Think We Were Playing a Game or Something?https://www.twitch.tv/shadesofvengeance

Hi everyone! It has been a full week since Leo and I last plunged headfirst into new levels on Doom Eternal which means I have forgotten absolutely everything about the...

13 Dec, 2025

Crossing Genres to Find Your Audience – https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2632534908

Hi everyone! I am reasonably well-known not just for creating tabletop roleplaying games, but also for expanding those universes into comics, novels, card games, and other formats. Recently, I have...

01 Dec, 2025

Doom Patrol Part 2 – Doomguy Rising (utilising first-person platforming!) – https://www.twitch.tv/shadesofvengeance [NOW!]

Hi everyone! Era: Marscape is coming in January, so naturally Leo and I are continuing our extremely serious and highly professional research by diving straight back into Doom Eternal today!...

30 Nov, 2025

Doom Patrol: Preparing for Era: Marscape by Punching Demons! – https://www.twitch.tv/shadesofvengeance

Hi everyone! I am doing a livestream today to celebrate the upcoming release of Era: Marscape at the start of January. The game is very Doom-inspired, so naturally the best...

“Stay On Target…”

Hi everyone! I am often asked how I make sure I finish the projects I start. This is one of the reasons I wrote How to Be Creative (and more...

23 Nov, 2025

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...

15 Nov, 2025

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...

08 Nov, 2025

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...

02 Nov, 2025

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...

29 Oct, 2025

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...

18 Oct, 2025

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...

12 Oct, 2025

“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...

04 Oct, 2025

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...

03 Oct, 2025

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...

02 Oct, 2025

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...

30 Sep, 2025

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...

27 Sep, 2025

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...

26 Aug, 2025

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...

23 Aug, 2025

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...

22 Aug, 2025

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...

19 Aug, 2025

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...

17 Aug, 2025

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...

15 Aug, 2025

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...

29 Jul, 2025

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...

25 Jul, 2025

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...

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...

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