Month: November 2012

  • Creating Memorable NPCs: Osric the Worthy

    Summerfort is home to a number of interesting, unusual, and colorful characters. It’s also home to a number of intentionally bland and unexciting folk. I wrote them that way to draw attention to the more exciting characters, but also to make the city seem more believable. To illustrate this, here I present one of the…

  • Thanksgiving, Sales, and Æthursday!

    Happy Thanksgiving to all of our American fans! From all of us here to all of you out there, we hope your holiday is safe and that you enjoy this time observing the traditions that you have! On that note, one of the most American of traditions is Black Thursday and Cyber Monday. No doubt…

  • Wellstone City Wednesday – Salvation’s Soldiers

    Salvation’s Soldiers This group, made up almost entirely of veterans from within Wellstone City, is a charity organization that picks up many causes throughout Wellstone, but takes a special interest in the homeless and the victims of domestic abuse. They are mostly well known for two events: a bike ride for Memorial Day at the…

  • Destroying Summerfort

    For this edition of Summerfort Sundays, I present you with a look into the history of Summerfort’s development, and give you a rundown on where we’re going with it. The Con Game The microsetting of Summerfort was born out of a game I threw together for a convention. In the earliest days after Ingenium’s original…

  • Breaking Murphy has been released for Wellstone City!

    Have you ever had one of those days…one where nothing seems to be going right? One that starts out bad and just seems to get worse and worse? Today is one of those days. To top it off, your crew just got a call from the Boss; you have three hours to plan a bank…

  • Æthursday – What Makes Æther different?

    A question we get asked a lot is, “What makes Æther different?” We hear it at conventions, through email, and through other channels. There are some stock answers that we give to customers, but what it really boils down to is that it makes the players think just a little harder when bullets start flying…

  • It’s Wellstone Wednesday!

    This week on Wellstone Wednesday, it’s time to meet the most powerful organization in town: The Cabbie Union One of the most overlooked Unions in Wellstone City is the Cabbie Union.  They are one of the most powerful groups in Wellstone because of the faces they see and the information they overhear.  Phone calls, conversations,…

  • Introducing Summerfort Sunday

    Today is the inaugural Summerfort Sunday. You might say this is a marketing gimmick designed to bring more people into the site, and you’d be right. But it’s so much more than that! Up until now, our Ingenium product line has received very little official support. While we have a baker’s dozen of products in…

  • Æthursday! Creating new Races in Æther

    Æthursday One of the most common questions we get about Æther while we’re at conventions is about the flexibility of the system. What can it do, what can’t it do. Kevin usually tells people that there isn’t much that it can’t do without a little tinkering; but to be fair, he says that most systems…

  • Wellstone Wednesday and some Announcements

    Greetings! We’re still working on a few things here at Silver Gryphon on a tech-support level, so please be patient as we navigate this switch over to the new server host. In the mean time, we’re still posting content and we’re still working hard on a number of things, and we’ll hit them all quickly…