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Just in time for “Shark Week” comes… Rayzer!

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Power Level 11 threat on his own, Rayzer is almost never alone. As a Renegade, Rayzer acts outside the law and by his own code. Whether the players see him as a villain or hero will very much depend on how they relate to him and the actions he takes. Rayzer is presented as a special deluxe-sized issue of Rogues, Rivals & Renegades with a map of his base and gorgeous art of his amazing submersible vehicle, the Karkarius! You’ll also get details on “Rayzer’s Raiders,” the devoted soldiers who have allied themselves with Rayzer.

Find Rayzer here, at Drive Thru RPG!

Welcome to Rogues, Rivals & Renegades! Each entry is designed as a villain, a potential ally with complications, or an outsider who might help the PCs one day and be at odds with them another. Each one has the potential to become a mainstay of your campaign!

 

Rogues, Rivals & Renegades are presented as files from a meta-human monitoring agency called METAs, with a loose frame story connecting them to Vigilance Press‘s own Beacon City setting. They are designed to drop into any setting with minimal effort, however, and the METAs commentary is written to give you a better picture of each character’s personality and threat level. Each issue gives you a background for the character, commentary by METAs agents, a standee to print and play with, and the Hero Lab file for the character!

 

Authored by Jack Norris, and with full color art by Alex Williamson, and maps and layout by Ruben Byrd. Designed for the Mutants and Masterminds Third Edition Roleplaying game.

Chris Pramas talks Titansgrave and Fantasy AGE on the latest episode of the Vigilance Press Podcast!

AGE_TG_AoV-450_1024x1024.jpg?v=143561584     In our latest podcast release, Chris Pramas joins me to talk about Green Ronin and their contributions to the Titansgrave Role-playing game series on Geek and Sundry! Tune in to find out where Green Ronin began, and how the AGE system developed from the Dragon Age licensed game into the system that drives the fantastic show on Geek & Sundry. Thanks again to Chris Pramas for joining me on the Vigilance Press Podcast.

Head Here for the podcast site!

 

Trainwreck, now available from Drive Thru RPG!

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With friends like these, who needs enemies?

Kara Kline means well, she really does, but superpowers alone aren’t enough to make you a superhero. This character falls into the “Rivals” category of our series. She’s a would-be hero who can often wind up causing more problems for your characters than the average villain! How will your heroes react? Will they try to redeem her, shut her down, or simply stand back and watch this Trainwreck?

Available now from Drive Thru RPG and RPGNow!

Welcome to the first regular release in our Rogues, Rivals & Renegades series. Each entry is designed as a villain, a potential ally with complications, or an outsider who might help the PCs one day and be at odds with them another. Each one has the potential to become a mainstay of your campaign!

 

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Trickster: Tianxia now available from Drive Thru Cards!

  Trickster Tianxia now available from Drive Thru Cards, courtesy of Smart Play Games!

The latest Tianxia-related product is the first not released from our Kickstarter stretch goals! Trickster: Tianxia is from Daniel Solis’s Smart Play Games and is a fun, fast-paced card game with multiple licenses! Tianxia is just one of the flavors of Trickster available, and you can mix and match the characters from the different sets!

You can find Trickster: Tianxia here!

Also check out Trickster: Fantasy here!

 

New Vigilance Press Podcast! Steve Kenson talks Blue Rose Kickstarter Campaign!

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Green Ronin super-star Steve Kenson joins us today to talk about the new edition of the Blue Rose roleplaying game! We discuss what it means to have an “inclusive” setting, what kind of magic and characters you can create in the Blue Rose setting, and Steve drops a Sir Mix-a-Lot reference. Tune in for all the details!

 

 I apologize in advance for any audio issues on my side of the recording. I’m in the process of building out my new podcast recording set-up and it sounds like I need a new microphone. I’ll try and have that remedied by next week’s episode.

 

 

Follow Nero the Newshound to the Podcast, or click this link to head to the Podcast blog!

The Tianxia Arcana for the Deck of Fate is now available to the public!

pirate sample pc_v2Our Tianxia Kickstarter backers will want to check their messages for some discount codes, and if you haven’t picked up the Deck of Fate from Evil Hat you might want to stay tuned over the next couple of days if you haven’t picked up the Deck of Fate from Evil Hat, check below for a bundle we’re offering… but for everyone else, head right to this link for our very first Drive Thru Cards product!

Once again, I’d like to thank Daniel Solis, Jack Norris, and Dionysia Jones for their work on these cards. I’d also like to thank Fred Hicks and Evil Hat for partnering with us to make this product possible. Our licensing agreement with them allows us to use the actual Deck of Fate backing so that you can integrate these cards into your existing deck seamlessly! We’ll also be partnering with them to release a bundle if you haven’t picked up the Deck of Fate yet, so stay tuned for news on that in the coming days.

If you haven’t picked up the Deck of Fate yet, you can grab both the deck of fate and the Tianxia Arcana as a bundle right here!

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Tianxia Playtest Documents Inbound! Heads up, Tianxia Backers!

pirate sample pc_v2Summary: This week we will be releasing a series of new Playtest documents, including the Twelve Golden Butchers adventure, the rules for Leopard Kung Fu, and the Mass Combat Rules! If you’re a backer of the Tianxia: Blood, Silk & Jade kickstarter at the $15.00 level or up, keep an eye on your email/kickstarter messages!

Greetings, and Happy (belated!) Chinese New Year to all of our Tianxia backers!

It has been a while since our last update, but we’ve been chugging away behind the scenes to produce a lot of manuscripts. We have a bunch of news now, and some new documents going out to our playtesters this week! Hit the break to read up on the details!

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Win Tianxia: Blood, Silk & Jade and other great prizes!

Tommy Brownell’s Top Six for 2014!

If you haven’t picked Tianxia up yet, check out Tommy Brownell’s Most Unread Blog Ever for his Top Six of 2014… for his picks of the best RPGs of the year, and a chance to win great RPG prizes. Including a hard copy of Tianxia: Blood, Silk & Jade!

Oh, and there’s also a bullet-point review of why Tommy likes Fate among the other Top Six entries. 🙂
Thanks to Tommy for the vote of confidence. It’s wonderful to be in such great company!

http://mostunreadblogever.blogspot.com/2015/01/tommys-top-six-of-2014-and-birthday.html

Tianxia Accelerated is now live on Drive Thru RPG!

Blood,SilkAndJadeCoverPromo600wideHappy New Year, everyone! 

To start things off right, we’re releasing the retail version of our Tianxia Accelerated Appendix into the wild today. As with the “Path of Destiny” Appendix we released earlier, this is a “pay what you want” release. That means you can set the price, from as little as zero dollars to whatever you think the PDF is worth!

This is the “Accelerated Addendum” we announced as a stretch goal during the Kickstarter, but with a slight name change. We’re simply calling it Tianxia Accelerated to help people find the product more easily.

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Rogues, Rivals & Renegades: The Krampus!

The Cover for Issue One of Rogues, Rivals & Renegades: The Krampus!Check out the early first issue of our new series, Rogues, Rivals & Renegades at Drive-Thru RPG!

The Krampus is a devilish new villain designed by Jack Norris for Mutants and Masterminds 3E. The art comes from Alex Williamson, Denise Jones, and Ruben Byrd. A Christmas-themed villain, The Krampus is a clever-but-cracked “gimmick” villain that’s sure to bring the mayhem to your holiday games.

Rogues, Rivals & Renegades will begin as a weekly release starting early next year. Check out this first early issue to get a taste of what’s in store!

-James