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…
As we start to hunker down for the holiday season, we wanted to come up with the perfect seasonal reading list: think books you can curl up with as the snow falls outside your window, warming up these coldest, darkest days of the year. We started out with a few of our all-time favorites and…
Since the new subscription page for The Briar Society is now up and running, I wanted to share some helpful details for the new subscription, hints about new, more immersive mechanics, and the reveal of The Briar Society’s 2021 relic! Most of you know that all the benefits and perks of AG+ are being folded…
We love showing our favorite small businesses some love every year as an alternative to the Black Friday craziness, and this year especially, small businesses need our help more than ever. While we also have some new designs up in our Book Shop that we think you’ll love, we want to share some of our…
The countdown begins! We’re officially one week away from the Day of Change, 2020! The Day of Change is an important narrative event in the Briarverse, which originated from The Monarch Papers. You can read about that in the Wiki here, but beware spoilers. Since 2017, the Day of Change has become a community-focused event…
September is a big month for the Briarverse. Along with some bigger narrative developments and upcoming releases—more on all that to come soon—September also boasts the Autumnal Equinox, an especially auspicious day for the Briarverse, as it coincides with the Day of Change. For those of you who might be newer/looking for a refresher, you…
