Friday, June 16, 2023

Interview on the Monastery Podcast

 


Earlier this week, I had the good pleasure of interviewing on the Monastery Podcast with Mildra the Monk about Chromatic Shadows. We covered a lot of ground with topics ranging from the origins of the game, cyberpunk class design, "hacking theory", and plans for the future. If you can hang with my occasionally long, reaching discursions, we get into some interesting territory. Many thanks to Mildra for having me on his show!


Sunday, June 11, 2023

Announcing the EMERALD AURORA: A Chromatic Shadows Adventure

 


I'm very happy to announce THE EMERALD AURORA, a full length adventure for CHROMATIC SHADOWS: OCCULT CYBERPUNK ROLEPLAYING.

Grab a PDF from DriveThruRPG  or from Itch!

Inspired by The Color Out of Space, The Wicker Man and Station Eleven.

It's a site based mini sandbox that takes your characters deep into the industrial no-man's land of the Slags. Explore a repurposed airport! Help a neotribe in distress! Venture into an abandoned shipping yard haunted by an eldritch green glow!
 
Full color, artistic graphic design, "control panel" layout, 35 pages, 8 original maps. Introduces new mechanics like negotiation tests, and basic vehicle rules.

Ten years ago, a Shadow War probe was launched into the dark beyond our solar system in order to perform an occult ritual in space. Now the probe has returned, crash landing deep within the industrial wasteland of the Slags. The entire area lies behind a slowly expanding veil of eldritch green light that is threatening a nearby Neotribal settlement. A team of hardcore street operators must venture beyond this emerald aurora, penetrate its eldritch mysteries, and confront its otherworldly dangers.  









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