I started off, like many, writing my own rpgs in notebooks that never saw the light of day. Much, much later a bit of work in Chivalry & Sorcery Fandom lead to magazine reviews and articles and later writing for Chivalry and Sorcery, including the current 5th edition.<\/p>\n
One of the earliest RPGs and one of the very first to put the notion of a working world that player characters were part of, Chivalry and Sorcery models a realistic medieval world, using research to present an accurate one. The Drivethrerpg link for that line is here<\/a><\/p>\n Essence started as “Chivalry and Sorcery Essence”, an attempt to put the system ideas of C&S 3rd\/4th edition into a light format using a d20.\u00a0 From that beginning there have been a couple of spin offs, and a new version of the core game without C&S branding<\/p>\n The free core version of the Essence system, which is 10 pages, including character sheet, a default “Robin Hood” setting and a sample adventure idea can be downloaded from here.<\/a><\/p>\n The paid for Essence line features Chivalry and Sorcery Essence<\/em>, Rocket Jocks: Blast into the Future, a pulp SF game, and Vis Imperium Victoriana and its setting book, the Secret of the Silver Hedgehog, which are intended for role-playing in 19th Century adventures. You can get these from Drivethrurpg.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tales from an Ancient Empire was the result of a Twitter conversation. I wrote this over a weekend, an RPG of 80s fantasy film action. You can grab it here<\/a><\/p>\n This has been expanded to “Straight to Video” for Fantasy, SF and Spy games, includes some adventure ideas. Download Straight to Video here!<\/a><\/p>\n There is a character sheet for Straight to Video, that works for Tales from an Ancient Empire, can be grabbed from here<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A bit of background I started off, like many, writing my own rpgs in notebooks that never saw the light of day. Much, much later a bit of work in Chivalry & Sorcery Fandom lead to magazine reviews and articles … Continue reading Essence RPGs<\/h1>\n
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