Author: Kevin Rohan
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Wellstone City Update – Freelancers
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As the situation in Wellstone City degrades in the absence of organized crime, the police are unable to control the situation. It is even becoming untenable for the organized crime syndicates to deal with and they have moved into a more protective posture around the tourist areas. Business that they once extracted protection money from,…
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Æthursday – Update!
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It’s been a busy week here at Silver Gryphon! Not only have we been working on Æthermancy and getting prepared for KantCon in a week, we have been getting print products uploaded to DriveThru RPG! We’ll have a continuous string of them coming for a while; we have a lot of product that has never…
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Violence on the Rise in Wellstone City
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For the past several months, violent crime in the Shining Jewel of the South has been escalating. Police have been unable to stem it off, and while it is growing in intensity, it seems to be restricted mostly to gang-on-gang violence. So far the self-declared truces and neutral zones are holding, but police are rapidly…
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Æthursday – Random Setting – To the East!
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Today’s Random Setting is an Iron Age, WWII Tech, Dark Fantasy setting… General Maximus Predatus had been leading the campaign for years; hard months of rain and heat, breaking only for the dismal winters. Summers were hard, winters were worse. All of us in Legio XIII filled with dread during the winters; we knew what…
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Wellstone City Update – New Exhibit
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Renowned archeologist, Dr. Manon Castillo, has brought her traveling exhibit of artifacts from the middle and late bronze ages to Wellstone City! Collected from the early Chinese dynasties, early Egyptian dynasties, the Americas, Greeks, Etruscans, early Romans, Scythians, and other lesser known people, the exhibit is known for “Out of Place Artifacts.” It includes Roman…
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Heroicon 2015 wrap-up
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Well, we made it through Hericon, survived the trip there and back, even though getting there meant driving through a nasty line of thunderstorms! We had a great time though, met some fans, talked to some Kickstarter supporters, and Kevin even managed to get an entire adventure written for his upcoming Shadow War setting for…
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Æthursday – Random Setting of the Week
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It has been a while since we’ve had an Æthursday, so Allen rolled up a great one and fleshed it out a bit better than normal for us. This week’s setting is a Dark Ages dystopia set in a fusion tech opera. The fall of empires always leaves a vacuum to be filled. Empirical pride…
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Æthursday – Random Setting!
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Today we have another one from Allen Thiele! He has spun up a Classic Supernatural Hellenism setting, featuring the technology of the time! The Gods meddle in the affairs of men. They start wars over petty arguments, decimate cities on a whim, and demand tribute to be paid to them in the blood of heretics.…
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Æthursday – Random Setting!
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Today’s Random Setting is a World War II, diesel tech, heroic high fantasy Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, but sometimes, it really magic. The industrial revolution came, and with it came an economic arms race. While most nations advanced technologically, a handful of other, developing countries turned to their witch doctors, shamans,…
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Æthursday: A Turn of the Century, Comedic Tragedy
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This week’s Gem was rolled up by our own Allen Thiele. He came upon a Turn of the Century, Tech of the time, Tragic Comedy. His initial thoughts were something akin to Oliver Twist mixed with an early 90’s sit-com. Kevin rolled those elements around, splashed in a little Hogan’s Heroes, and the result is…