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[witchknightblack]

Posting these as I haven't before (on Tumblr), but for those interested in V5 and aren't opposed to the sporadic need for homebrew. I write some Storyteller's Vault stuff.

Blood and Country was my first and is basically "But what if rural vampires?" as well as a completely relaxed and not at all emotional, personal fuck you to White Wolf's god awful lore around Australia, which comes in the form of werewolf-hunting Aboriginal vampires.

Call to Lineage = a bunch of loresheets related to vampiric lineage.

A Life of Blood = quality of life homebrew stuff. Ever expanding document.

Unliving Cities = a "how to build your cities" book with tables, and breakdowns of the ways in which certain laws/sects affect WoD cities.

Baali Apostates = the Baali, but in V5, they're spooky and parasitic in a way that makes their threat appropriately uncomfortable.

Tzimisce Reshaping the Clan = another passion project of just re-writing clan Tzimisce in V5, because sadly they were done dirty, including speculative lore continuation, discipline changes, loresheets, loose Revenant rules, etc.

Currently working on a new supplement for diablerie, because it is my absolute favourite thing in WoD ever, and the temptation to eat other vampires for the sake of personal power and pleasure is just so fun!

[songoftrillium]

HEARTHBOUND IS NOW A BESTSELLER

HOLY SHIT! A friend pointed out to me that Hearthbound is now a bestseller on Storytellers Vault! I never expected it to do so well, and I'm honored it's had such a positive public response.

If you've ever wanted a turnkey solution for confronting the less savory aspects of the Garou Nation in Werewolf: the Apocalypse, look no further!

When you take away the safety, agency, and credibility of a people, abuse them, and push them to the edges of society, it's only natural that they'll turn to each other for support. Hearthbound is an exploration of subculture that I feel will resonate with many of you.

Long ago held beneath the heels of the Garou Nation, Kinfolk have begun helping Crinos-Born defectors seeking to escape their Septs. Raising them in loving homes, these Crinos-Born have grown into a new tribe. They reflect the values and people of the cultures that raised them, proudly bearing the names their families gave them.

Existing as the children of Shantar, the Hearthbound value inventiveness above all else, finding unconventional solutions to deeply complex issues, both in the literal and abstract. Adhering to the Codes and Creeds of renown, they judge those in the Garou Nation who would use their power to abuse those weaker than them.

This module is usable in any edition of Werewolf: the Apocalypse and provides all the patron, tribe, gift, spellwork mechanics, and story seeds needed to work this new tribe into your new or existing tables!

[chatrpgs]

New Vault Supplement: A Deal With Darkness

https://www.storytellersvault.com/product/309674/A-Deal-With-Darkness?affiliate_id=259490

Been working on this one for a long while now! It’s A Deal With Darkness, a book on summoning and pact-making for Chronicles of Darkness!

[dividlibro]

This will be the cover for my Nosferatu-character-pack! (Sending good vibes to my buddies in the shadows.) 😄

The pack will be great for your very own PCs, NPCs, Chronicles or even Storytellersvaultprojects!

Stay tuned, because it will launch the upcoming week!

[magethepodcast]

Devices and Wonders: Items of Magick in Mage

Terry speaks with Charles Siegel, author of Mystic Armory about the magickal things Mages of all stripes make like wonders, devices, artifacts, inventions, charms, gadgets, grimoires, and principiae. Also discussed are the “gadget” of nuclear weapons introduced in Fallen Tower: Las Vegas, the best-ever-charm Unbullets, and more importantly, how to introduce wonders and devices into your chronicles.

Other texts mentioned:

Forged by Dragon’s Fire, a big book of non-technological wonders

Technomancer’s Toybox, a big book of technomagickal wonders

Charles’ bestseller, the Enlightened Grimoire, a compendium of all known rotes mentioned in Mage: The Ascension

Listen to our previous episode on the Enlightened Grimoire

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[silhouetteofadon]

The Exalted Storyteller Vault is Live!

So I am incredibly excited to say that the Storyteller Vault (https://www.storytellersvault.com/) is finally accepting Exalted content and I have uploaded my first two entries! The first as a part of my renamed NPC Fodder project, is Beztup, the Alchemical Brewmaster.  He is the first official entry in my Scroll of the Strange and Mighty line. Not only that, he is posted for free!  He has both fantastic art from Skech Roman and Mel Uran. You can find the store page down below! https://www.storytellersvault.com/product/252850/Beztup-the-Alchemical-Brewmaster?src=newest_community&filters=45622 My second contribution is the final versions of the red daiklave trio by the name of Flame-Kin, inspired by a number of participants of the Exalted Discord along with my weekly storyteller.. This three dot set of blades will kick off The Artifact Egg Cache, including ten evocations along with hand drawn art from myself.  It can be found at the link below for $1.99. https://www.storytellersvault.com/product/252847/FlameKin?src=newest_community&filters=45622

[gamerati]

Now available from @onyxpathpublishing in ebook and print on demand via Storytellers Vault, in Kindle ebook via Amazon, and in Nook ebook via B&N: Haunting Shadows, the fiction anthology for Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition!⠀ .⠀ This collection of stories is inspired by Wraith: the Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition. You’ll explore the Underworld, roam the streets of Stygia, the eternal city, visit a haunted museum, and walk new and exciting locales. This anthology includes tales by classic and new Wraith authors such as Richard Lee Byers, Jackie Cassada, Rich Dansky, Monica Valentinelli, Catherine Lundoff, Joe Nassise, and more!⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #onyxpathpublishing #stories #fiction #kindle #StorytellersVault #Stygia # Wraith #WtO #WtO20 — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/39Yx2tk

[gogeeksandgeeklets]

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— Geeks and Geeklets (@GGeeklets) June 14, 2018

[dividlibro]

The Thanksgiving Sale is still going strong! Get this illustration (and 4 more) in full colour my Vampire: the Masquerade, Nosferatu Character-Pack at a discount of 33%!!!

The offer is up until December second.

[dividlibro]

Out now! The Clan Nosferatu Character Illustration Pack! Fly my pretties! Fly and infiltrate others books and chronicles!

https://www.storytellersvault.com/product/286126/Nosferatu-CharacterPack?filters=45622_0_0_0_0_0

[magethepodcast]

Lovecraft, Cosmicism, and Cosmic Horror with Josh Heath

Mage’s premise assumes humanity and the characters matter. What if the universe doesn't care? Terry Robinson and Josh Heath, COO of High Level Games and host of Werewolf: The Podcast discuss cosmicism, the belief that there is no divine presence and that humanity is particularly insignificant. How to combine the epic and indifferent?

Show Notes

The deeply problematic H.P. Lovecraft and his best critic, S.T. Joshi

“The Call of Cthulhu”

“The Dunwich Horror”

At the Mountains of Madness

“Herbert West–Reanimator”

“The Colour Out of Space”

“Dagon”

“The Horror at Red Hook”

The Shadow over Innsmouth

“Pickman’s Model”

The Whisperer in Darkness

The Void

Event Horizon

Pandorum

Life

Nietzsche on nihilism

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

Harlem Unbound by Chris Spivey

Heirs to the Mountains of Madness by Josh Heath

Mage: The Podcast Myth in Mage interview with Josh Heath

Nephandi

Werewolf: The Apocalypse

The Triat of the Wyld, the Weaver and the Wyrm

The Umbra Realms

The Flux Realm

Demon: The Fallen

Baali

Gnosticism

Avatars

The Call

Albert Camus’s The Stranger, A Happy Death, Exile and the Kingdom

The myth of Sisyphus

Neoplatonism

The Zigg’raugglurr

Void Engineers

Ka Luon

Far Cry 5

Preppers

Harano

Arch-Spheres

Psychopomps

Lord Dunsany, originator of weird fiction

The anti-natalism of Thomas Ligotti’s The Conspiracy against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror

Complete H.P. Lovecraft, some available free through Project Gutenberg

Anti-natalism

Benign Anti-natalism and AI

The Book of the Fallen

S.T. Joshi’s How Not to Read Lovecraft

August Derleth

Book of the Wyrm

Twin Cities by Night’s Brian Diaries: Nihilism in the World of Darkness

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Penny Arcade’s Nyarlathotep comic

The King in Yellow by Robert William Chambers

The Fisherman by John Langan

True Detective, seasons 1 & 2

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An excerpt from the forthcoming Book of the Fallen, provided by Satyros Brucato on the Mage: The Ascension Facebook group:

"Oh, there ARE gods. I can attest to that. Or at least things you might call a god if you were desperate enough to believe that a spirit cobbled up from human thought-stuff is somehow worthy of worship just because it’s stronger than you’ll ever be. That stuff exists. I’ve seen it. Whether or not you’d call those beings “loving” or “just,” however, depends on just how badly you want to get in their good side and how much you’ll justify in order to stay there if you manage it. You can worship those things if you like—I won’t try and stop you. Why should I? You’re cattle to your gods. You’re meat. They feed on you. Religion is the butcher-block. Faith is the axe. Belief is meat and bone and blood.

And you call us the evil ones?

Seriously? Wear an instrument of torture around your neck if that makes you feel more holy, folks. Celebrate your god by eating his flesh and drinking his blood in order to escape the hell he made for you, and then tell me how I’m the one who’s sick in the head. Hey, if that’s your game, go play it. Maybe you can even go old-school and burn me alive after torturing me for weeks. That’d sure teach me what peace and love and justice are all about! 

Now, gods ARE real, at least in the astral sense. People believe in them, and that faith fuels astral energy, gives it form, and lends it power and identity. Thing is, the gods are parasites—not creators or saviors but jackals made of spirit-stuff."

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Gods and Monsters with Satyros Phil Brucato, Hiromi Cota, James Sambrano and Isabella Price

We live in a world full of gods and monsters: spirits, creatures, Paradox entities, Avatar aspects, vampires, beast-folk, godheads, primordial legends, and other creatures too strange for the average mind to conceive. On this episode, Adam Simpson and Terry Robinson talk with the authors who brought these entities to life in Gods & Monsters, the latest supplement for Mage 20 from Onyx Path Publishing. The authors share their experience researching, selecting, and writing about the entities in this compendium.

Discussed:

The status of Satyros' car

How 20,000 words in art description made sure every entity in the book was pictured

Research difficulties for folklore

Gamer-proofing lore

How culture provides tools to deal with adversity

Listener questions

Guests:

Hiromi Cota

Dear High Elves podcast

Isabella Price

Nocturnal Emissions pod cast

Nocturnal Emissions Youtube channel

Nocturnal Emissions on Facebook

Nocturnal Emissions on Twitter

James H. Sambrano

Presenting at Norwescon

Satyros Phil Brucato

Satyros Phil Brucato on Patreon

Powerchords: Music, Magic & Urban Fantasy RPG

Telesterion (his band!)

[magethepodcast]

The Babel Center

On today’s show Carrie Kube joins us to talk about her Mage adventure, “The Babel Center,” available on the Storytellers Vault. We discuss the adventure she wrote Vampire: The Masquerade, “Bloodlinebook Deava” and for Dungeons and Dragons Ravenloft; the artifact and characters featured in “The Babel Center;” tips writing for the Storytellers Vault; setting her adventure up for various editions of Mage and for crossover for other World of Darkness games; Spellfire: Master the Magic; how she discovered role playing games and Mage; Roll20.

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A Phoenix Rising

Victor Kinzer discusses "A Phoenix Rising", an exploration of the world on the cusp of a New Horizon Council. Are you ready to make history? Listen to the episode at: Pick up a copy of "A Phoenix Rising."

Victor is part of the creative team behind Walking Away from Arcadia about Changeling: The Dreaming

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Storytellers Vault

On today’s show we chat with Josh Heath, Chief Operations Officer at High Level Games and host of Werewolf: The Podcast, joins us again to talk about the Storytellers Vault. We discuss camping; his Rage Across Australia podcast episode; my Marvel Universe theme park dream; what is the Storytellers Vault; the Dungeon Masters Guild; guidelines for the Storytellers Vault; adult content; Black Dog; submitting artwork; High Level Games 5 Reasons to Write for Storytellers Vault article; High Level Games editing services; Dark Shores: Lineages of the Great Lakes; Chronicle Guidelines Or Jumpstarts and why they are so difficult to write for Mage; submitting novels to the Storytellers Vault; Word, Google Docs, Dropbox Paper and Ulysses; Enlightened Grimoire; Dark New England Regional Sourcebook; Razors and Thunderbolts: The Ksirafai; Watch the World Burn; Island of the Dead God; the Onyx Pathcast episodes on freelancing and the Storytellers Vault; the High Level Games Convention in October.

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[gogeeksandgeeklets]

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RT worldofdarkness: RT wwpublishing: When will you Rage? #WerewolfTheApocalypse is coming to the #StorytellersVault in June 2018 for community content creation! #WorldofDarkness #WoD #W20 #Werewolf #RPG pic.twitter.com/NjaPQ6CJxS

— Geeks and Geeklets (@GGeeklets) May 23, 2018