1st Review!

The Age of Shadow has received it's first in-depth review (or at least the first one that I've seen) over on The RPG Tavern blog (where it has also been designated RPG of the month). The review itself is a good one, and gives a nice overview of the game (probably a better one than I have given myself).

In contrast, I also had my first comment on YouTube the other day - though in this case, it wasn't a particularly favourable one.

Map-a-Monday (week 7)

Well it's Monday again (it comes around so fast) ...so here's another dungeon:

...and a simple (pdf) battlemat version can also be found HERE

Map-a-Monday (week 6)

Here's the first of February's maps:

...note that a simple pdf battlemat version of the above dungeon can be found HERE

Tiles, tiles, and more tiles.

As I mentioned in a earlier post, I've recently been creating a few modular sci-fi tiles in a similar style to the sci-fi maps already on the site (though these new ones are slightly better in quality - due to the fact that the original maps were only made into printable battlemats as an afterthought). Well, the initial set is now done (3 pages crammed with as many tiles as I could fit) - so hopefully they'll be appearing with an adventure or two over on the Dungeon Plungin' Forums soon (after which I'll also add them to the site).

In addition to these, I've also created a few simple dungeon tiles for the guys who are developing the (free) Chronicles game. Initially, I was contacted to see if I would mind them linking to some of my existing tiles (which, of course, I didn't mind at all), but when I realised that they would actually prefer 3" wide corridors for their dungeons, I offered to create a new set to their specifications (albeit a fairly plain set). So, with any luck, these should also be surfacing soon :)

However, working on these tiles has meant that I've not really done much with the AoS campaign guide recently - especially since drawing the sci-fi tiles has piqued my interest in that genre again (and I'm now expanding on the aforementioned set - just to give it a bit more diversity).

But I'll no doubt get back to the campaign guide soon enough, but in the meantime I was wondering if anyone could suggest a good RPG for an 'Aliens' style of game? (perhaps with a few 'Terminator' elements, and maybe a touch of 'Event Horizon').

Map-a-Monday (week 5)

The final map for January:

...note that a simple pdf battlematt version of the above dungeon can be found HERE

Dungeon Plungin'

Earlier this month, I was asked if I would mind if someone tinkered with my sci-fi maps, so that they could try and put together a modular tile-set for the Dungeon Plungin' game.

Well, to cut a long story short, to save them the trouble of having to cut out parts of my existing maps, and then try to paste the bits together to get something that looked OK, I instead agreed to do a new set of tiles (in a similar style) that was actually designed to be modular from the outset.

So here's a look at the design I've settled on for this new tile-set:

(this first one is for a simple corner passage)

With any luck I should have the whole set done by the end of the month, and then they'll be freely available on the CSP website and the Dungeon Plungin' forum.

Map-a-Monday (week 4)

Here's January's penultimate map:

...note that a simple pdf battlematt version of the above dungeon can be found HERE