RPGs

it’s franken’ time!

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The season of Frankenstein is upon us! Be of good cheer!

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is now playing on Netflix. I caught it in 35mm during its limited theatrical run. Loved it. Surely, once you’ve watched it, you’ll then ask, “But how can I keep my love for Frankenstein going at the tabletop RPG table?” My friend, I give you Promethean: The Created. It’s a White Wolf game I created (along with the brilliant creatives in the office and working freelance) nigh 20 years ago, where you can play Frankenstein-like creatures stumbling your way toward humanity.

Follow this link for a way to get a copy. (There’s a later 2nd edition, but I didn’t work on it and haven’t read it, so I’m giving you the link to the version I’m intimately familiar with.)

I should note that the game does require the core rulebook, titled World of Darkness (which I also designed and co-developed). Get that here.

Stokercon week

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I’ll be at #StokerCon this week! (It’s in Stamford, CT.) If you see me there, say hi. Come to my panel: “Roleplaying Games and Horror”, Thursday at 3pm (Aspen 1). I hope to see everybody there!

Fading Suns Bundle of Holding deals!

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Through MONDAY, JULY 22 we present TWO offers featuring FADING SUNS Fourth Edition, the far-future passion-play SFRPG from Ulisses Spiele. “Fading Suns” has starships, blasters, powered armor, alien races, and weird science — but also heroic knights, noble lords, high priests, and headstrong merchants — quests, artifacts, and inscrutable mysteries. And there is horror: monsters and terrifying metaphysical truths. It’s a medieval passion play, where Humanity’s greatest civilization has fallen, bringing a Dark Age to the Known Worlds. The Universal Church of the Celestial Sun (modeled on the historical Byzantine Orthodox Church) pursues cosmic intrigues against the Noble Houses and the Reeves Guild. But even as the stars fade to cinders and the sinful await Final Judgment, a leader has arisen. Emperor Alexius has sworn to unite the worlds again under one banner — to ignite hope once more.

Start with the revived July 2022 FADING SUNS 4E BUNDLE, with all three Fourth Edition core rulebooks and early supplements.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/2024FS4

And its companion offer, FADING SUNS 4 LOST WORLDS

Then venture beyond the Phoenix Empire frontier with the all-new companion offer, FADING SUNS 4 LOST WORLDS, a collection of recent supplements that explore the star systems cut off from the Known Worlds a millennium ago:

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/FS4LostWorlds

Whether or not Emperor Alexius can save the darkening stars, it won’t be long before these two FADING SUNS offers flicker into nothingness together — specifically MONDAY, JULY 22.