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100 Conspiracies presents a hundred different conspiracy theories for use in modern investigative/spy/horror games. Each conspiracy is outlined and explored and comes with several adventure seeds to get you started. Perfect inspiration for the beleaguered Games Master in need of a little kickstart to their creativity!
You can purchase it HERE
The ‘100 Series’ contains titles such as 100 Fantasy Adventure Seeds, 100 Planets, 100 Horror Adventure Seeds and, the first to appear through distribution in September 2009 – 100 Sci-Fi Adventure Seeds.
The books are written by Origins Award Winner James ‘Grim’ Desborough (The Munchkin’s Guide to Power Gaming) and each contain one-hundred adventure seeds, or locations, to be used with any game system.
The books will appear, through distribution to retail stores worldwide, from September 2009.
“I’m very pleased to have Grim, and Postmortem Studios, on board. They’ve built a very good following and range of titles for their PDF business and having known Grim for the best part of the last 15 years I’m excited to see where this partnership leads.” said Angus Abranson, Director of Cubicle 7 Entertainment.
“I’m delighted to have the opportunity to move forward with Cubicle 7 and to take my books into print. I hope this is the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship between Postmortem and Cubicle 7. The 100 series is very successful in PDF and I’m excited to bring the work to a wider audience in print.” added Grim.
About Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd
Founded in 2006 Cubicle 7 Entertainment was set up by Angus Abranson and Dominic McDowall-Thomas, two gaming entrepreneurs who wanted to create a games publisher fostering some truly iconic brands. Since then the company has published role playing games from a growing list of properties including Victoriana, SLA Industries, Starblazer Adventures (based on DC Thomson’s 80’s Starblazer comic series) and 7th Circle’s Chinese fantasy Qin. In June 2009 Cubicle 7 announced it had joined the Rebellion Group.
Victoriana is a fabulous fusion of Victorian adventure and fantasy myth, SLA Industries is a gritty futuristic urban horror fuelled by classic British punk imagery, whilst Starblazer Adventure is set firmly in the heart of classic 80’s space opera where gigantic fleets prowl the starlanes and devilish scientists operate enormous engines of destruction. The English translation of French publisher 7th Circle’s Qin propels players in to the epic fantasies and tragic events of ancient Chinese legend.
About Postmortem Studios
Postmortem Studios is the personal, self-publishing imprint of RPG freelancer James 'Grim' Desborough and has been in operation, full time, since 2004. Postmortem Studios embraces the digital age in producing electronic and print-on-demand gaming products of a quirky and unconventional bent. Postmortem Studios has had great success with the '100' series, with resurrecting the Blood! horror RPG from the 1990s and with various card games and support materials.
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I'm just here to give you a heads up on what the plans are for Postmortem Studios in this forthcoming 2009.
- Redesign: Expect this blog/site to get a facelift and redesign in the early part of this year, something a bit more slick and professional and I think I'll be retiring the old Postmortem Studios logo for something a bit more 'chic'.
- Cthentacle: This is my first priority this year, to get Cthentacle out of the door. I have, somewhat controversially, decided to go with the simplified, faster, Vs rules for this iteration of the game.
- All These Worlds: Mongoose's Traveller is going a storm and there's really no point me reinventing the wheel, so this is being revised for a second time and will become a series of expansions and materials for Traveller, most likely released - somewhat - via Mongoose's Flaming Cobra line.
- 100 Series: 100 Conspiracies and 100 Conspirators, 100 Supervillain Plots and 100 Supervillain Lairs will be the next few 100 Series books. I'm also cooking up a similar concept for players, something akin to the old Central Casting 'lifepath' books.
- Neverwhere: When I get time the third edition of this free RPG will be made available. This will also have more 'proper' rules for those who like such things.
- D&D4: I hope to be writing for Axe Initiative and I also hope to be releasing a complete adventure line, piecemeal, for D&D 4th Edition, a 'super campaign' that takes character from starting out to maximum level while also spinning out a complete game world. I also hope to begin work on my world-city setting.
- Gumshoe: Expect a Gumshoe version of @ctiv8 at some point during the year.
- Blood!: If there's time I hope to get Hell on Earth out of the door this year. That's the Renaissance/Enlightenment/Witch Burning era version of Blood!
- Fiction: I WILL complete a book of short-mid length stories this year and self publish, this is my promise to myself.
- Fanbooks: I hope to complete a Fallout fanbook for the Xpress system, again, depending on time.
- Getting Paid: Fingers crossed I get paid for work I've done over the last 2-3 years that I haven't yet been paid for :P
- Other: Agents of Swing (Xpress) and Unnamed Barbarian Fantasy Game (Xpress), The Pretentious Game.
- Someone with knowledge of d20 Modern, RuneQuest and my game, Blood!, willing to do some system conversions/creations for all three systems at about ten dollars a shot.
- A map-maker, preferably using the newer versions of campaign cartographer, willing to do play-mat style grid-work (nothing too fancy required) at about the same payment as above, per map.
- A map maker/illustrator willing to do larger, more freehand maps at about 25-100 per shot, depending on the size and intricacy required. CC maps also acceptable here.
- If anyone wants to release clipart through my established channel, they're welcome to, the profit split is about 50/50.
- I'm also willing to take on, produce and publish games that you'd like to and have no time to put out yourself at a similar profit split (after my costs are recouped.
Happy gaming!
Writing these isn't easy and the further on you get the harder it gets as the ideas seem to become more repetitious, even when they're not. Hopefully this will give people a lot of good ideas for one off games, sections of their campaigns or even whole campaigns. Once 100 Dark Places is finished I intend to take a little break to deal with some business stuff outside of the writing, then to whip out my alien invasion comedy game before finally, after several years, moving on to complete All These Worlds a hardish science fiction system based upon the RuneQuest OGL.
Hentacle FourPlay continues apace and I have about half the cards handed in for this, so that should be out soonish. When it does we are also going to experiment with a new POD printer who offers card printing and will be presenting a Hentacle Deluxe hardcopy set, which will include every set for Hentacle in one double-box, everything you need to play. That will be the end of the product cycle for Hentacle for the foreseeable future, but work can then commence on Cthentacle...
100 Planets is the companion volume to 100 Science Fiction Adventure Seeds and presents the burnt out or stuck Games Master with 100 worlds, each with their own society, geography, description and a handful of adventure seeds to get you going. An invaluable resource for any Games Master.
YOURGAMESNOW
RPGNOW
DRIVETHRURPG
E23
PAIZO
100 Horror Adventure Seeds is the next installment in the successful Adventure Seeds series from Postmortem Studios.
100 Horror Adventure Seeds presents 100 game session ideas, one to a page, with three twists, an epilogue and some ideas to help you make that session a better game.
Far more useful than a traditional roleplaying module, 100 Horror Adventure Seeds can spark your imagination and get you past 'GM's Block' so you can get on with a good evening's gaming.
Reviews & Comments
'A very useful book, this one. Out of 100 adventure ideas, at least half were to my liking. Each adventure hook lists three twists, and in many cases not only did I find at least one twist to my liking, the other two are suitable for addition as further plot complications or as red herrings. Each hook also includes an epilogue to inspire sequel adventures from the consequences.'
'This product delivers, and in a big way. There is no shortage of really good ideas. Each idea is fleshed out slightly more than a true adventure seed, with some good details and a few twists and variations, too. Overall, this is an excellent product, and a must-have for any horror GM.'
'It's a big book, full of useful ideas. Its great for a GM who did not have time or the inspiration to coble together an adventure or who wants inspiration doing exactly that.'
'Not only does the book offer useful condensations of adventures, but it leads the reader to find inspiration in other media.'
'Lots of fun and definitely extensive. Great for when you can't come up with an idea all on your own.'
YOURGAMESNOW
RPGNOW
DRIVETHRURPG
E23
PAIZO
100 Kingdoms presents 100, individual fantasy countries for your use in your own fantasy-based games.
- Great for worldbuilding.
- Great for game inspiration.
- Great for adding new twists to existing gameworlds.
- Good accompaniment for 100 Fantasy Adventure Seeds.
Each 'Kingdom' is provided for with a single page description consisting of an overview, an examination of the rulership, the general geography and a scattering of adventure seeds to get you started.
This is a generic product suitable for most fantasy games.
Reviews & Comments
'Get it if you're a fantasy GM - it's just chock full of ideas.'
'A wonderful inspiration! Probably a third of the ideas here could be used in my current campaign, either as-is or with minimal tweaking, and the remainder are giving me ideas for the future. Highly recommended.'
'An interesting mixture of the usual and unusual. Even the strange ones are nicely described and are not alien enough to make it difficult to intergrate with most fantasy settings.'
YOURGAMESNOW
RPGNOW
DRIVETHRURPG
E23
PAIZO
The following pages contain one-hundred adventure seed ideas for you to use in your fantasy based games.
Each adventure consists of the basic idea, three twists and an epilogue which, in effect, means you're actually getting closer to 900 different combinations and possible adventures!
Feel free to add your own embellishments or to combine or string together the adventures in any way you please and, if you have particular success with any of them we'd love to hear about it.
Reviews & Comments
'The number of new ideas presented (or old ideas reworked) in this rpg accessory should allow any GM to find something new (or a least a new take on something) to throw at his/her players.'
'Very usefull handy-dandy DM aide...especially when an impromptu adventure gathering happens and you are caught with nada for a new adventure...gets the ball rolling quite well.'
'A fantastic compendium of ideas which can be used as encounters, provide inspiration for your own plots or expanded into full adventures if need be.'
'This is a great product - heaps of fun ideas and good value!'
'This genuinely has 100 Fantasy Adventure Seeds. How sad is it that I thought there might be some fudging in the advertising of such. But the creators deliver.'
YOURGAMESNOW
RPGNOW
DRIVETHRURPG
E23
PAIZO
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