Monday, 30 November 2015

Stations in Life #3: Soldiers and Slaves

A warrior of Mentis, City of the Blue Women
Third and final social classes extract. Today Soldiers and Slaves. 

Friday, 27 November 2015

Stations in Life #2

A Nun of the AkâshicCollege.
Second of three extracts on Social Stations. Today, Priests. 

Wednesday, 25 November 2015

Stations in Life #1

The Seven of Pentacles: Craft.
So it's been a while but you need to know that Chariot is nearly, so nearly done. It's on course for the playtest document to be out in December and the Kickstarter to launch in early January.

I thought I'd share some of the playtest draft this week, and since the most work I've done  on it has been in character creation, well.

So your character in Chariot has a culture, and I've written about cultures at length already, a social station (that is, the economic or social class into which your character was born) and a Fate (the good bit). This week, I'd highlight some of the social stations, which include Citizen, Mystic, Noble, Nomad, Outcast, Priest, Proletarian, Soldier and Slave.

Friday, 28 August 2015

Fated

In Chariot, you play the role of one of the twenty individuals in the world whose destiny is to carry the psychic weight of the human race on your shoulders. 

Wednesday, 22 July 2015

Gods of Atlantis

Six of Pentacles: A Black Atlantean Ritual to Akhantuih.
The Atlantean body politic and the religious establishment are one and the same.

Tuesday, 21 July 2015

The Long Before

Six of Wands.
Time only began with consciousness, and memory, and in the Long Before, the forebears of humanity – mindless, formless, swam in the Astral Sea, the First Root of the Human Race. We evolved; we gave birth to elongated, weightless beings of light-bearing ether, and as the Second Root, we drifted through the ages of the seas and the time of the Greatest Beasts. We learned to dream, unbound by the shackles of time and consciousness and thought, and our dreams shaped the evolution of the world around us.