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Legends of Avallen - Play Spotlight: Equipment as Health

Legends of Avallen - Play Spotlight: Equipment ...

By Deren Ozturk “By the end of any great quest the heroes will be exhausted, surviving off their strength, wit, and the grace of their now battered and broken equipment....

Legends of Avallen - Play Spotlight: Equipment ...

John Houlihan

By Deren Ozturk “By the end of any great quest the heroes will be exhausted, surviving off their strength, wit, and the grace of their now battered and broken equipment....

Legends of Avallen: Lore Spotlight: The Otherworld

Legends of Avallen - Lore Spotlight: The Otherw...

By Deren Ozturk "From that island at the end of the world, no soldier returned without tales of wonder—walking forests, talking fae, enigmatic shapes half man and half beast: things...

Legends of Avallen - Lore Spotlight: The Otherw...

John Houlihan

By Deren Ozturk "From that island at the end of the world, no soldier returned without tales of wonder—walking forests, talking fae, enigmatic shapes half man and half beast: things...

Boldly Going: The Player’s Guide
Star Trek Adventures

Boldly Going: The Player’s Guide

By Al Spader, STA Contributing Writer When I first heard about this project, my mind raced at the possibilities that the book could encompass. As the Player’s Guide would be...

Star Trek Adventures

Boldly Going: The Player’s Guide

John Houlihan

By Al Spader, STA Contributing Writer When I first heard about this project, my mind raced at the possibilities that the book could encompass. As the Player’s Guide would be...

Star Trek Adventures: Writing for the Gamemaster’s Guide
Star Trek Adventures

Star Trek Adventures: Writing for the Gamemaste...

By Al Spader, STA Contributing Writer     Workong on the new Gamemaster’s Guide for Star Trek Adventures was an exciting opportunity for me to explore how the philosophy of gaming...

Star Trek Adventures

Star Trek Adventures: Writing for the Gamemaste...

John Houlihan

By Al Spader, STA Contributing Writer     Workong on the new Gamemaster’s Guide for Star Trek Adventures was an exciting opportunity for me to explore how the philosophy of gaming...

Raiders of the Serpent Sea: How Epic Paths Led to Epic Backgrounds
Raiders of the Serpent Sea

Raiders of the Serpent Sea: How Epic Paths Led ...

By Brent Knowles Hello & welcome! I’m the designer behind Raiders of the Serpent Sea and in this article I discuss the design decisions behind the epic backgrounds feature. What is it? Why is...

Raiders of the Serpent Sea

Raiders of the Serpent Sea: How Epic Paths Led ...

John Houlihan

By Brent Knowles Hello & welcome! I’m the designer behind Raiders of the Serpent Sea and in this article I discuss the design decisions behind the epic backgrounds feature. What is it? Why is...

Fallout Friday Nov 21

Fallout Friday Nov 21

Welcome once again Wastelanders to my Monthly round up of all things Fallout Wasteland Warfare.  New ReleasesIt’s been quite the year and despite everyone’s plans being obliterated, we’ve just about...

Fallout Friday Nov 21

John Houlihan

Welcome once again Wastelanders to my Monthly round up of all things Fallout Wasteland Warfare.  New ReleasesIt’s been quite the year and despite everyone’s plans being obliterated, we’ve just about...

Explore Diverse Styles of Play with the Star Trek Adventures Player’s Guide
Star Trek Adventures

Explore Diverse Styles of Play with the Star Tr...

By Fred Love, STA Contributing Writer The thing that got me most excited as I started writing for the Star Trek Adventures Player’s Guide was thinking of all the wildly...

Star Trek Adventures

Explore Diverse Styles of Play with the Star Tr...

John Houlihan

By Fred Love, STA Contributing Writer The thing that got me most excited as I started writing for the Star Trek Adventures Player’s Guide was thinking of all the wildly...

Zeppelins? In Transylvania?
Achtung! Cthulhu

Zeppelins? In Transylvania?

By Pat McNally Greetings Agents, Today sees the release of the latest in our series of ready-made adventures for Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20. “The Romanian Imperative” will see the plucky agents...

Achtung! Cthulhu

Zeppelins? In Transylvania?

John Houlihan

By Pat McNally Greetings Agents, Today sees the release of the latest in our series of ready-made adventures for Achtung! Cthulhu 2d20. “The Romanian Imperative” will see the plucky agents...

Star Trek Adventures: Writing for the Gamemaster’s Guide
Star Trek Adventures

Star Trek Adventures: Writing for the Gamemaste...

By Michael Dismuke, STA Contributing Writer Are you afraid to become a gamemaster? Do you have plenty of stories, plots, and ideas swimming around your head but you don’t know...

Star Trek Adventures

Star Trek Adventures: Writing for the Gamemaste...

John Houlihan

By Michael Dismuke, STA Contributing Writer Are you afraid to become a gamemaster? Do you have plenty of stories, plots, and ideas swimming around your head but you don’t know...

New Player’s and Gamemaster’s Guides Hit the Skies
Star Trek Adventures

New Player’s and Gamemaster’s Guides Hit the Skies

By Jim Johnson, STA Project Manager With the Star Trek Adventures game line celebrating its fourth birthday, the development team and I felt it was a good time to focus...

Star Trek Adventures

New Player’s and Gamemaster’s Guides Hit the Skies

John Houlihan

By Jim Johnson, STA Project Manager With the Star Trek Adventures game line celebrating its fourth birthday, the development team and I felt it was a good time to focus...

Introducing the Tricorder Collector’s Box Set
Star Trek Adventures

Introducing the Tricorder Collector’s Box Set

By Jim Johnson, STA Project Manager After years of development and planning, I’m excited to announce that the release of the Star Trek Adventures tricorder box set is finally upon...

Star Trek Adventures

Introducing the Tricorder Collector’s Box Set

John Houlihan

By Jim Johnson, STA Project Manager After years of development and planning, I’m excited to announce that the release of the Star Trek Adventures tricorder box set is finally upon...

Weasel Writings #2
Five Parsecs From Home

Weasel Writings #2

By Ivan Sorensen   Welcome to the second of a series of essays discussing the how and the why of Five Parsecs From Home. The aim of this series is...

Five Parsecs From Home

Weasel Writings #2

Apinya Ramakomud

By Ivan Sorensen   Welcome to the second of a series of essays discussing the how and the why of Five Parsecs From Home. The aim of this series is...

Weasel Writings #1
Five Parsecs From Home

Weasel Writings #1

By Ivan Sorensen   Welcome to the first of a series of essays discussing the how and the why of Five Parsecs From Home. The aim of this series is...

Five Parsecs From Home

Weasel Writings #1

Apinya Ramakomud

By Ivan Sorensen   Welcome to the first of a series of essays discussing the how and the why of Five Parsecs From Home. The aim of this series is...

Writing for the Shackleton Expanse
Star Trek Adventures

Writing for the Shackleton Expanse

By Aaron M. Pollyea, STA Contributing Writer One of the things that brings me a lot of joy in writing Star Trek Adventures is setting up a framework or ideas...

Star Trek Adventures

Writing for the Shackleton Expanse

John Houlihan

By Aaron M. Pollyea, STA Contributing Writer One of the things that brings me a lot of joy in writing Star Trek Adventures is setting up a framework or ideas...

Welcome Wastelanders to October’s #FalloutFriday 
Fallout Friday

Welcome Wastelanders to October’s #FalloutFriday 

By Jon Webb Releases This month we bring to a close our adventures in New Vega as two sets of companions arrive to further reinforce your survivor faction.The first set...

Fallout Friday

Welcome Wastelanders to October’s #FalloutFriday 

Jon Webb

By Jon Webb Releases This month we bring to a close our adventures in New Vega as two sets of companions arrive to further reinforce your survivor faction.The first set...

Introducing the IDW Star Trek Year Five Tie-in Release
Star Trek Adventures

Introducing the IDW Star Trek Year Five Tie-in ...

By Jim Johnson, STA Project Manager Astute fans of Star Trek Adventures might note that, over the last few years, the STA development team and I have been working to...

Star Trek Adventures

Introducing the IDW Star Trek Year Five Tie-in ...

John Houlihan

By Jim Johnson, STA Project Manager Astute fans of Star Trek Adventures might note that, over the last few years, the STA development team and I have been working to...

Unified Space - Transmission Four
Five Parsecs From Home

Unified Space - Transmission Four

by Ivan Sorensen BEGIN TRANSMISSION/... Welcome to the second transmission into Unified Space. In these transmissions you will find snippets of data, current events and psionic overflow usable in your...

Five Parsecs From Home

Unified Space - Transmission Four

Apinya Ramakomud

by Ivan Sorensen BEGIN TRANSMISSION/... Welcome to the second transmission into Unified Space. In these transmissions you will find snippets of data, current events and psionic overflow usable in your...

Unified Space - Transmission Three
Five Parsecs From Home

Unified Space - Transmission Three

by Ivan Sorensen BEGIN TRANSMISSION/... Welcome to the third transmission into Unified Space. In these transmissions you will find snippets of data, current events and psionic overflow usable in your...

Five Parsecs From Home

Unified Space - Transmission Three

Apinya Ramakomud

by Ivan Sorensen BEGIN TRANSMISSION/... Welcome to the third transmission into Unified Space. In these transmissions you will find snippets of data, current events and psionic overflow usable in your...

Unified Space - Transmission One
Five Parsecs From Home

Unified Space - Transmission One

by Ivan Sorensen BEGIN TRANSMISSION/... Welcome to the first transmission into Unified Space. In these transmissions you will find snippets of data, current events and psionic overflow usable in your...

Five Parsecs From Home

Unified Space - Transmission One

Apinya Ramakomud

by Ivan Sorensen BEGIN TRANSMISSION/... Welcome to the first transmission into Unified Space. In these transmissions you will find snippets of data, current events and psionic overflow usable in your...

Welcome Wastelanders to September’s #FalloutFriday 
Fallout: Wasteland Warfare

Welcome Wastelanders to September’s #FalloutFri...

By Jon Webb Releases This month our New Vegas adventures continue as Marcus and Lily arrive to further reinforce your Super Mutants (and Survivors in Marcus’ case) as well as...

Fallout: Wasteland Warfare

Welcome Wastelanders to September’s #FalloutFri...

John Houlihan

By Jon Webb Releases This month our New Vegas adventures continue as Marcus and Lily arrive to further reinforce your Super Mutants (and Survivors in Marcus’ case) as well as...