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Post by thegreyelf on Jul 7, 2021 4:15:36 GMT -6
The Night Companion is HERE! And we are ROCKETING towards funding already!The Night Companion is the first sourcebook for the Night Shift: Veterans of the Supernatural Wars Role Playing Game, the old-school RPG of Chosen Ones, Witches, Survivors, Psychics, and Something Weird. Within its pages, you will find: - Four new character classes: the Divine Warrior, the Mystic Martial Artist, the Psychic Gunslinger, and the Spirit Rider
- Rules for playing supernatural species including Celestials, Driven, Ghouls, Infernals, Lycanthropes, and Vampires, expanding upon the "Supernatural Race" option in the core rulebook
- New options for generating ability scores for normal, gritty, and cinematic games
- Rules to convert your game from class-and-level to entirely point-buy
- An alternate Alignment system focused on good, evil, light, and dark
- Guidelines to convert your game to a unified mechanic: both d20-based and percentile-based options are covered
- [li]Enhanced combat rules: variable weapon damage, range increments, weapon classes, grappling rules, jumping, drowning, suffocation, poison, disease, and more
- New Arcane Powers and spells, plus enhanced rules for ritual magic
- A GM section that goes behind the scenes of the system, talks about keeping track of your play style options, gives guidelines for creating cults and secret societies, and discusses tropes of sub-genres of horror and how to use them in your game
- Dozens of new monsters, enemies, and NPCs for your game
- ...and more!
Check it out today!
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Post by Finarvyn on Jul 7, 2021 6:37:27 GMT -6
Glad to hear that this project is close to launch.  Sorry to hear that you are having shipping issues outside the USA.  |
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Post by thegreyelf on Jul 7, 2021 7:51:18 GMT -6
Glad to hear that this project is close to launch. Sorry to hear that you are having shipping issues outside the USA. Yeah, it sucks big time. On the up side, UK and EU fans can still get our stuff through Studio 2 or via distribution at their FLGS. |
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Post by Finarvyn on Jul 7, 2021 15:54:34 GMT -6
I guess that Studio 2 deal was a stroke of luck, then. |
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Post by thegreyelf on Jul 8, 2021 6:15:21 GMT -6
I guess that Studio 2 deal was a stroke of luck, then. Not luck so much as me putting in the work to secure my company distribution.  But yes, at least we still have a way to get IN PRINT products into the hands of our fans. I'm trying to get in touch with S2 to ask about using them to fulfill my Kickstarter, which would solve the problem, but it depends on what the cost would be to do that. |
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Post by thegreyelf on Jul 8, 2021 7:04:45 GMT -6
It has come to my attention that an alternate solution may exist for our EU and UK customers: a package forwarding service that gives you a U.S. address and allows you to manage shipping to you from there (often at discounted rates). I'm looking into this now, but some options that seem viable at a glance are: |
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Post by thegreyelf on Aug 6, 2021 15:29:42 GMT -6
Glad to hear that this project is close to launch. We are live now! Link in the first post; check it out! Yeah, it really sucks. I'm still working on it and hoping to find a workaround. I MAY have found one but don't want to get anyone's hopes up yet. |
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Post by Finarvyn on Aug 6, 2021 19:05:24 GMT -6
Question: maybe I'm reading the kickstart page wrong, but is there a print+PDF option that doesn't include the GM screen insert pages or the module? I have both of those two items already.
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Post by thegreyelf on Aug 6, 2021 19:54:19 GMT -6
Question: maybe I'm reading the kickstart page wrong, but is there a print+PDF option that doesn't include the GM screen insert pages or the module? I have both of those two items already. Yup, Divine Warrior: $20. Print and PDF of just the Companion. |
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Post by Finarvyn on Aug 7, 2021 6:44:36 GMT -6
Must have skimmed too quickly.  Thanks! |
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Post by Finarvyn on Aug 17, 2021 16:03:44 GMT -6
Finally got around to making a pledge. I am such a slacker. |
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Post by thegreyelf on Aug 20, 2021 5:06:40 GMT -6
Thanks, Marv! Appreciate the support!
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Post by d4caltrops on Aug 20, 2021 12:19:30 GMT -6
Do you have any plans to publish O.G.R.E.S. separately? The mechanics sound cool. I backed to give it a read and support, but I rarely play horror games. Maybe around Halloween.  |
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Post by thegreyelf on Aug 20, 2021 16:20:32 GMT -6
Do you have any plans to publish O.G.R.E.S. separately? The mechanics sound cool. I backed to give it a read and support, but I rarely play horror games. Maybe around Halloween. Thank you for the support! The thing about Night Shift is that it's not purely horror. You can do horror with it, yes, but it's more geared towards modern urban fantasy--think Buffy, Lost Girl, even the Arrowverse, stuff like that. My next O.G.R.E.S. game is going to be a swords and sorcery game. But I believe very strongly in being able to easily divorce setting from mechanics, so really what Night Shift: VSW is, is my house system for modern role playing. Wasted Lands: The Dreaming Age will be the fantasy rules. EVENTUALLY, down the line, Twelve Parsecs will be the Sci-Fi rules. Sometime, far in the distant future, there may be a "Generic" rulebook unattached to any genre, but the truth is, those REALLY don't sell well. I think (and hope) you'll be pleased to see that as it stands, Night Shift: VSW lets you use old school mechanics to play pretty much any kind of modern game you want, from 1930s pulp to stark post-apocalyptic survival horror and beyond. There's no baked-in setting; rather, we include a number of example mini-settings which just give you the bones to build on and play however you like. |
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Post by thegreyelf on Aug 30, 2021 5:31:47 GMT -6
Only 5 days left on the Kickstarter, folks! If you haven't backed yet, now is the time! We've had a weird kind of stasis going on the past week or so where we're losing as many posts as we are gaining. Let's get some of these stretch goals unlocked! I KNOW you guys want the GM screens! If you haven't backed yet, now is the time! Share it around; let's expand our reach and open some eyes to Elf Lair Games!
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Post by thegreyelf on Sept 7, 2021 5:41:02 GMT -6
Well we finished just over $5,500. I had really hoped we'd get to $6,500 and unlock those screens, so that was a disappointment, but overall I can't really complain! The screens WILL still be produced; they just aren't going to be offered as a free upgrade for those at higher pledge levels. It was a disappointment not making the $6,500 pledge level, but hey, I can't complain overall. That stretch in the middle there was the weirdest thing I ever saw in a Kickstarter. It was like, the MOMENT we got over $4,800, someone IMMEDIATELY, like, WITHIN MINUTES, dumped a $100 pledge, like it was a strange, "let's keep this specific Kickstarter from making its goals" conspiracy. No, I don't think it actually was a conspiracy. That's just the level of weirdness |
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