Squawk 2E Update: RPS

With the Squawk 2nd Edition, we've decided on a role-playing system that is more visceral than Scratch. (It is almost like a highly simplified updated version of Mano a Mano heavily influenced by Scratch.) Unfortunately this will add at least months to Squawk 2E development, and we'll be lucky to have the game done this year. We will post here on the blog as we are looking for proof readers and play testers.

TDW Reference Document

We want as many people playing The Dark Woods Role-Playing Game as possible, so we have put enough of The Dark Woods up on our content wiki so that anyone can play the game. We still want you to buy The Dark Woods to support our efforts, but even if you don't we still want you the play The Dark Woods. Also this wiki version should be a handy resource even for those who normally use the paper book, even though it doesn't have all the content the book and PDF does.

Tommy reviewed The Dark Woods

Our favorite Role-Playing Game critic, Tommy Brownell, has reviewed The Dark Woods here:
http://mostunreadblogever.blogspot.com/2012/06/tommys-take-on-dark-woods.html

We think it is a fair review and an accurate assessment of The Dark Woods RPG. Yes, in case you are wondering, it was originally a board game design (a board game/RPG hybrid, the original prototype in the early/mid 90's used a lot of 3x5 cards.)

Two for the price of one

If you buy the Soft-Cover version of The Dark Woods core rule book ($7.99,) the PDF is now FREE (now normally $3.99.)

The Dark Woods in soft cover print

You can now get The Dark Woods in soft-cover format from DriveThruRPG here: http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/101224/The-Dark-Woods The core rule-book is $7.99 , the PDF is $4.99, and together they are only $9.99 .

Knights of The Dark Woods

Tired of always being labeled "the bad guy?" Want to know more about the mysterious "Order of Thanatos" alluded to throughout The Dark Woods RPG? Wait no longer, now you and your team members can play Knights of the Order of Thanatos here: Order of Thanatos (team association)

Squawk 2E under development

We have officially started working on the 2nd Edition of the Squawk Role-Playing Game. We seriously intend to finish before the end of the summer, we know exactly what we want to do with it (make it easier for GMs to use: more scripted, less spaceship combat.) We are looking for volunteer proof readers (between 150 to 200 pages,) so if you can help with this please e-mail squawk@gameartsguild.com

Trolls of The Dark Woods

Another race we weren't able to polish up in time for The Dark Woods book was trolls. Here is a playable variation of trolls we came up with: Trolls of The Dark Woods

Vampires of The Dark Woods

We worked on vampires for The Dark Woods, but they got culled when we were trying to finally finish up the project. Well, now here is a playable variation of the vampires we came up with for The Dark Woods: Vampires of The Dark Woods

TDW Sale: one for the price of none

We have officially lowered the price of The Dark Woods PDF to $0.00 until the printed version of the book is available for sale online. At that time we plan to return to the price of $4.99 for the PDF: http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/101224/The-Dark-Woods

Evade text clarified

In The Dark Woods, we have changed the description of the "evade" action on page 7. Here is the old confusing text:

Evade allows a character to to add a movement ability level to his agility and strength until his next turn or until he is held, whichever comes first. A character without one of those abilities can also evade, but his agility and strength do not change.

Here is the new text which should be more clear:

Evade allows a character to add the level of one of his movement abilities to his agility and strength until the end of his next turn or until he is held, whichever comes first. A character with no movement abilities can also evade, allowing him to escape on his next turn if he is not held, but his agility and strength do not change.

We worked hard on these 32 pages for over a year, and we don't expect any more changes like this, but you never know.

Character Generator Update for TDW

We've updated The Dark Woods character generator to have the exact same layout as is in the character sheet in the book: http://gameartsguild.com/tdw

It also has details on what each ability is used for built into the ability selection menu, to help you save time when generating characters. It also has a separate tab for the minions character sheet.