If you haven’t already, check out the Weatherwatch, Gossmere, and Flinterforge reveals to share your thoughts and read about how and why we structured guild skills and archetypes the way we have. Next up, my own guild, Ebenguard! Ebenguard was less of a challenge for me, simply because I have some pretty strong, defined ideas…
If you haven’t, check out the Weatherwatch and Gossmere reveals to share your thoughts and read about how and why we structured guild skills and archetypes the way we have. Next up, Flinterforge! Flinterforge was another fun challenge and the reason why we’re working on the idea of a Guild-specific skill. The Craft skill would…
Check out yesterday’s Weatherwatch reveal for context about how and why we structured guild skills and archetypes the way we have. Next up is Gossmere! Gossmere was a fun and interesting challenge: How do you give largely caring, nurturing, and empathetic people bite in potential combat situations and complex options for character design without making…
As you may or may not know, the Neithernor RPG uses the 18 guild-bearings from Ackerly Green’s Guide to Magiq in place of the classical concept of “classes” from other tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons, etc. Each Guild’s three bearings are delineated by the Sun/Moon/Eclipse concept, and in NNRPG they are also sorted into…
This is a continuation of our NNRPG Level post from yesterday! Magic Types: Material & Wrought If you read or participated in The Monarch Papers, then you might know a little about the concept of “Material” and “Wrought” magic types. As a super quick recap: Material spells borrow magimystic energy from objects, places, people, and…
Hello Mounties! I’m posting this, but Mike, fellow Mountainer and Neithernor RPG co-creator, wrote a fair chunk of this, and we worked together to refine some of the existing rules and clarify it all as best as possible for you! We learned a lot about the game in trying to distill some of the more…
I can’t tell you just how excited I am for you all to see what just launched in the shop! I’ve been working on these behind-the-scenes with our pin manufacturer since last fall, and I’m proud to say the official Ackerly Green Bookmark is now live in the shop for pre-order! What started as a…
The Missouri sharecroppers strike. I hadn’t even been born yet and couldn’t have any personal memory of it, but I can feel the frigid cold my family felt, huddling with all the other families that had been kicked off the land and forced to build a makeshift camp on the side of the snowy roads….
