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The Trials of the Twin Seas, collecting all 6 adventures for BEOWULF Age of Heroes 5e is now available to everyone in PDF!
Featuring adventures by Gareth Hanrahan, Jon Hodgson, Elaine Lithgow, Marco Rafala, Jacob Rodgers and KC Shi.
The anthology includes extra material including expanded opening spreads with poems by Dave Oliver of Rattlebox Theatre, GM advice, pronunciation guides, location and NPC guides and more!
Coming soon for BEOWULF Age of Heroes – a new mini-adventure for Heroes of level 1 or 2 by Jacob Rodgers: The Serpent of Glinnredïn.
The kingdom of Rheged is plagued by a golden worm that is eating all the livestock. A Hero is needed to confront the serpent and slay it. But when they reach the Fells where the worm dwells, they will learn that the situation is more complex than it first seems and they might find themselves drawn into an older conflict.
Not only is the PDF of Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland almost ready, (We’ll reserve a bit of time for some final proofing, and then backers and pre-orderers will of course get it first), but we’re also releasing a story scenario: The Meat Spoiler.
Backers and Pre-orderers will get it for free!
In The Meat Spoiler, the witches must counter the appearance of an incredibly dangerous spirit hellbent on destroying the community’s reserves of meat, needed to see them through the winter. This scenario makes an ideal introduction to the world and play of Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland!
Jon here, author of Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland.
Recently I read a fascinating thread on twitter about natural but incorrect assumptions about historical fact. I learned so much researching Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland, and I so I shared a thread of my own amazing facts I learned through researching Maskwitches. I’d said on twitter these were all new to me, which wasn’t entirely true – but the specific applications of these factoid was often new.
With the longer form format available to us here on the blog, let’s unpack these a bit more, and also report some of the ensuing discussion, which was excellent!
a|state second edition is making its physical presence felt as copies make their way to backers, late pledgers, and pre-orderers around the world. (Our friends in the US will need to be the most patient, since your books need to complete their sea voyage).
Of course in the mean time the PDF is out, and looking great! All pre-orders come with a free copy of the PDF.
Check out these spreads:
You can grab your copy here:
A grab bag of stuff From Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland today.
1: Spirits. Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland contains an extensive set of resources for naming spirits, the natural enemies of the Maskwitches. Using these resources I discovered this spirit is named The Creeper-Chewer. Be grateful that the dice did not roll up The Howling Penis Grinder, who is a much-feared spirit. You’re laughing now, but wait until you’re trying to light a fire at midnight in a freezing brackish fen while the Howling Penis Grinder promises, in a very loud voice, to kill you if you look at him out of the front of your eyes.
2: “a 10,000 year old spirit made of smoke and teeth and birch tar that wants to extinguish all human life by eating the souls of everyone you know. Because you made a peat bog angry.“
3: A temporary camp of people. The ordinary people of The Land do not make many permanent dwellings, though some exist.
4: The people of Forgotten Doggerland have dark skin, dark hair and bright green eyes. In this respect, they are unlike anyone alive today. Pale skin will not arrive in Northern Europe for thousands of years. It will first arrive with the idea of farming. The people of Forgotten Doggerland, or as they call it “The Land” are fishers, hunters, and gatherers.
Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland is a psychedelic mesolithic setting for The Silver Road. You can pre-order it now:
BEOWULF Digital Pack Ten is out now!
In this Tenth Digital Pack of bonus content for BEOWULF: Age of Heroes, we bring you:
BEOWULF Age of Heroes for fifth edition presents a host of rules to enable duet play – for one GM and one player.
Grab it now: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/409308/BEOWULF-Age-of-Heroes-Digital-Pack-Ten
Did you miss the Quickstarter for Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland? It ws easy to do, since it was only a week long! But have no fear – you can pre-order the books and the card deck here on the Handiwork Games web store right now!
Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland has reached £14,000 and unlocked a new Silver Road setting to go with Maskwitches, penned by Malcolm Craig (Cold City, Hot War, a|state). It is called “The Burn”. All backers at a reward level will receive this in PDF. Very exciting!
At £16,000 we unlock another art print for everyone.
Which allows us, at £18,000, to open the Young Designer Fund, should we reach that level of funding. This will aim to find and commission an up and coming young RPG designer to write a scenario pack for Maskwitches or a new adjacent Silver Road setting, depending on what they’d prefer. This will be aimed at giving a new young talent an opportunity to reach a new audience and be involved with an established creative team. They will of course be paid properly for their work. We will publish the setting and share the proceeds with them.”
Click the image to head to the campaign:
“The tools of ordinary people of the place we call Doggerland (most often simply called “The Land” by those who live there) are indistinguishable from ritual objects. The ability to change the future is a ritual function, and work done with tools is itself a spiritual affair.
Take for example a flint knife.
Its inception was in the invisible mind that imagined it. It was then birthed from an otherwise ordinary knuckle of flint, which could have rested unmoving in the ground or on a beach forever, but it was quickened by mind and other tools, themselves conduits for spiritual power that splits possibilities into probabilities and then certainties.
This cascade of events are not givens to the people of what we call Doggerland, and they hold the work of tools and tools themselves in high reverence.
All of their tools began as part of the landscape they inhabit: be they hand-chosen and knapped stones, carefully selected and carved wooden sticks, bunches of reeds, or tools made with animal sinew. The elevation of landscape into probability dividing magical implements is in itself significant.”
Maskwitches of Forgotten Doggerland is in the final stretch of its week-long Kickstarter campaign. Back it now: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonhodgsonmaptiles2/maskwitches-of-forgotten-doggerland
The Silver Road is an experimental, minimalist story-telling game for 3 to 5 players. This is version 1.