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A look inside… Shattered Moon Ogre Pledged and Devout

April 13, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Broken Tower have released Shattered Moon Ogre Pledged and Devout as a supplement for their new Shattered Moon setting. Ogres are protectors of nature but for some of them the calling is beyond the natural. The supplement has details of teh Pledged and Devout racial vocations for ogres, three templates with avatar record sheets and […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Broken Tower, previews, shattered moon, Tim Westhaven

From the Inkwell: The problem with being a; flesh-eating, blood-drinking, skin-wearing, bone-collecting, vengeful humanitarian

April 1, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This From the Inkwell design essay is from Tim Westhaven of Broken Tower. Broken Tower’s FateStorm system is a diceless, detailed, set of RPG mechanics and the company has just released the Shattered Moon setting for it. In Shattered Moon players take on the roll of Sidhe. These people had ancient souls that finally awoke […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalyptic, Broken Tower, from the inkwell, monsters, shattered moon, vampires, Westhaven

Twitter accounts to follow this International #TableTopDay

March 30, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s International TableTop Day! You may well have noticed by now as the web is all a flutter about it. How is Geek Native taking part? This blog is covering the virtual side of the event. You might risk a peek at 5 RPG Kickstarters or even join one of 10 Google+ RPG communities and […]

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, Angus Abranson, Broken Tower, Chronicle City, crone rpg, cubicle 7, FateStorm, International TableTop Day, make-believe, mark rein-hagen, Pelgrane Press, twitter

A review of Shattered Moon

March 28, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Shattered Moon is a roleplaying game from Broken Tower and Tim Westhaven. Westhaven is both author and artist on the game, given that the book is 320 pages of colourful art and clever text the project must have been a labour of love. Shattered Moon makes use of the FateStorm VRS. That’s the FateStorm Virtual […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apocalyptic, Broken Tower, FateStorm, horror, reviews, shattered moon, Tim Westhaven

A look inside the Ascendancy RPG’s Steam and Steel

June 11, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ascendancy – Rogue Marshal is an RPG from Broken Tower that came out in March 2012 and makes use of the FateStorm RPG system. FateStorm itself is a system that took five years to build, was inspired by Jung, Joseph Campbell, tarot and astrology and is described as a “virtual reality system”. Steam and Steel […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Ascendancy, Broken Tower, FateStorm, Tim Westhaven

Ascendancy – Rogue Marshal heralds new RPG system

March 18, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

Ascendancy – Rogue Marshal from Broken Tower is a 288-paged RPG with 5 unique races, 200 magical weaves, 40 unique vocations and which uses the FateStorm RPG system. FateStorm sounds grandiose. Broken Tower use the phrase “virtual reality system” to describe it. It’s taken some 5 years, we’re told, to pull FateStorm together and it’s […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Ascendancy, Broken Tower, FateStorm

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