Bundle of Holding - Sine Nomine Rulebooks

Let me start this by saying I own ALL of Sine Nomine's core rulebooks in Print and PDF. They literally are that good. If you are an improv-style GM, Kevin's rulebooks are the ones you want. Tools for a long and strong campaign? These right here, there are no better. Fantasy, sci-fi, cyberpunk, post-apoc, Lovecraftian horror, quasi-historical - Kevin has them all. 

Stars Without Number Revised Deluxe, Other Dust, Spears of the Dawn, and Cities Without Number: Free Edition are all in the Starter package for 12.95. The Bonus Collection adds Worlds Without Number Deluxe, Wolves of God, Scarlet Heroes, and Silent Legions and comes to about $26 as I type this.

Seriously, you can't go wrong with Sine Nomine's rulesets.

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F' Me - I Somehow Missed That the Sine Nomine PDFs Are 25% Off

I have no idea how I missed this. Well, yes I do, as there is a shitload of stuff on sale for the RPGNow GM's sale.

The most recent product put out by Sine Nomine is Spears of the Dawn (one of the best run Kickstarters I've supported, if not "the' best). Normally 10 bucks, it's $7.49 for the next 4 days. It an African themed fantasy RPG and very well done. I should be in a twice a month campaign as a player (go figure), so I'll let you know how it plays in real life, but it's on sale now.

Red Tide (campaign sourcebook and sandbox toolkit) can be had for $5.99 in PDF. I liked this enough to grab it in hardcover. Tables and setting. Good stuff.

Stars Without Number: Free Edition is still free. If you grab nothing else, grab this. It's probably the best OSR styled Sci-Fi ruleset out there. Remember, 25% off of free is still free ;)

Sine Nomine Publishing Releases the Spears of the Dawn Art Pack to the Public Domain!

As Kevin promised during the Spears of the Dawn Kickstarter, he has now released the art from the SotD book into the "public domain". Do with it as you see fit. Holy shit but that is so awesome!

From the blurb:


Free African-inspired fantasy art for your own campaigns and projects!

Need African-styled locations, adventurers, and creatures? Thanks to the generous backers of the Spears of the Dawn RPG Kickstarter, these images and resource files are yours to do with as you please. With the consent of the artists, I've relased all these images into the public domain, and you may use them freely in your own gaming products and personal campaigns.

Included in this trove of black-and-white line art are roughly 60 images fit for fantastic adventure, plus Nicole Cardiff's color cover of Spears of the Dawn for you to remix or reuse. All are provided in their original .tiffs.

Not only that, but an InDesign CS6 file is provided, one containing a sheaf of objects, styles, and the full source file for the game's first chapter for you to use as a worked example. Go ahead and rip it to pieces, and rebuild it in a way you like better. While the actual content of the chapter is not public domain, you should feel free to reuse, recycle, and remix all the InDesign component parts in any way you like.

Spears of the Dawn Kickstarter Releases PDF 2 1/2 Months Ahead A Schedule - Temperatures Dip Below Freezing in Hell

We all have learned that the estimated ship date of a Kickstarter project, especially an RPG project, is about as likely to hit as a balanced budget by the government of your choice. Sure, the intention (might) be there, but the reality is usually greatly different than the stated intent.

Which brings us to Kevin Crawford's Spears of the Dawn Kickstarter, in which Kevin decided to do things a bit differently. A playable "Alpha" version was released to backers "while the Kickstarter was still going on", virtually unheard of at the time. Alpha in this case meant "without art", as the game was pretty much already written. Kevin even stated from the start that he hoped to beat his estimated ship date of March 2013.

He's well on the way to doing that. Final PDFs were released last night to backers. Printer's Proofs should be confirmed the first week of February with fulfillment in February - a month or more early.

And thus Hell begines the process of freezing over ;)

Spears of the Dawn Alpha Release Available Now to Kickstarter Supporters

The Spears of the Dawn Kickstarter still has 16 days to go before ending and it's already funded. Supporters of the Kickstarter can get their hands on the Alpha release now - not in 2+ weeks when the Kickstarter ends but right now.

It's no short RPG either, coming in at over 170 pages.

I'll be reading this sucker in depth tonight, as I'm really intrigued by running a Fantasy / Stars Without Numbers Hybrid game.

See, the right way to do a Kickstarter is to have a product usable before the end of the fundraising