Vastlands Guidebook - Bootleg Beta
Added 2024-08-28 22:00:42 +0000 UTCDear heroes and travelers,
!o, behold, the Vastlands Guidebook bootleg beta PDF is released!
50-odd hours left on the backerkit campaign for the physical version!
(scroll down for the attached file)
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Rules loose, psychedelic metal roleplay in the Vastlands at the edge of time and space. Characters, rules, equipment, and powers for the Ultraviolet Grasslands and Our Golden Age and other games in the synthetic dream machine.
For everyone at the table: the player who referees the game and the players who run the characters.
Welcome, curious explorer, to the Vastlands. To a time beyond the end of time.
Here, in the heart of the world, is the Circle Sea, the pond of panhumanity surrounded by polychrome lands. An overgrown garden of humanity, here neat, there feral, sprawling out of sight of its absentee Builders, safely kept by the inscrutable might of its warden angels, the Phylakes.
There, to the west, the psychedelic Ultraviolet Grasslands stretch beyond the edge of civilization and its faded histories, a deep, vast, mythic steppe littered with the detritus of time and space and memory.
Safe travels at the end of time, beyond the edge of the last safe world.
VERSION: 3.03b Bootleg Ballistic Banana
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This is a free beta edition prepared and released for the irrepressible heroes of the stratometaship and the good backers of the Our Golden Age backerkit campaign.
It is not the final version and is yet to receive its final editing and proofreading. Some art is temporary, missing, or just a placeholder. Oftenplace pXX stands in for the accurate and nice page reference. So it goes.
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Now go.
Enjoy at your peril.
—Luka, August 2024
Comments
Ah, here it is. Wonderful! I've been spending time lately on my attempt to build a completely-free framework for improvising adventures in the Warcraft Universe, using SDM and the recently-liberated Warcraft Wiki. It's always useful to see the latest rules publication, although the System Reference Document will always be there. Recently I figured out how to remove all the WoW-style power resources and power all the mag-- er, powers, off Life. It's a bit janky but it allows more SDM rules to be used as-written. Thank you so much, Luka.
Vinemaple
2024-09-09 18:21:59 +0000 UTCthat's a very good point and a reminder to me to go over each of the chapters and write blurbs after reviewing them one last time, to wrap things together. Thank you!
WizardThiefFighter
2024-09-03 04:13:42 +0000 UTCi think the book would benefit from a summary of character creation in one contiguous, short blurb before all the steps are spelled out i am very excited to be reading this 🧡
dontnormally
2024-08-31 14:10:55 +0000 UTCThank you! I'm doing my utmost to ensure it's as pretty as the UVG!
WizardThiefFighter
2024-08-29 06:32:23 +0000 UTCI just backed OGA, happy on that mode !
Hatt
2024-08-29 06:00:06 +0000 UTCAbsolutely bud, thanks again for an awesome post and such great work like always, masterful as always bud!
Ogie Sifter
2024-08-29 04:27:18 +0000 UTCThis layout owes most of its stun to Gontijo. He deserves credit for things looking good - the pedestrian parts are mine. I had to rebuild some things due to text updates and for keeping it synced with OGA and UVG.
WizardThiefFighter
2024-08-29 02:02:25 +0000 UTCStunning. Layout is on fire!! (As usual)
Rich Glover
2024-08-29 01:24:50 +0000 UTCDon't feel bad! It's all the good. We're all glad to see you here.
WizardThiefFighter
2024-08-28 23:54:37 +0000 UTCThis is insane I've been feeling so bad I could't participate in the backer kit as much as I would like, this next job I'm gonna drop my piece ! Thank you so much rad egg bearer
Ogie Sifter
2024-08-28 22:22:58 +0000 UTCSo excited!
Richard Fraser
2024-08-28 22:21:34 +0000 UTCYes, thanks!!
Eric McConaghy
2024-08-28 22:17:41 +0000 UTCThank you for this.
Manatooth
2024-08-28 22:10:10 +0000 UTC
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