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2011 was a busy year for Tab Creations. Looking back, we began the year with the release of our third setting for Saga Machine, the hard sci-fi setting Shadows Over Sol, and then followed up our core and settings with no less than twenty Freebie Spotlights....
And now we announce the latest PDF supplement for Trystell: Reborn! This time it is Trystell: Reborn - Magic. This seven-page supplement contains a variety of information about how magic works on Trystell, how it is viewed and quirks of the different magical traditions in the setting. Check it out!...
Following up on the release of the Saga Machine Companion, we now announce that the Saga Machine CompanionSRD is now online and ready for reference. The SRD for Saga Machine now contains the bulk of the content listed as "Open Game Content" for both the Saga Machine Companion and the Saga Machine core rulebook....
The release just barely made it in before the end of the month, but we made it! We are now proud to announce the official release of the Saga Machine Companion, the next evolution of the Saga Machine system. This 144-page print supplement presents a variety of new rules options and systems for the Saga Machine system and updates the system to a new revised set of "system defaults" to be used with any Saga Machine campaign. TheSaga Machine Companion can be found for order in the Tab Store....
As mentioned not so long ago, we now present the release of the next Trystell: Reborn PDF supplement in a line of PDF supplements leading up to the release of the final Trystell: Reborn hardback. This time it is the Trystell: Reborn - Life on Trystell supplement. This 13-page supplement has a variety of information about life in the setting, from a breakdown of races by region to the the economics of the world to astrology and cosmology of Trystell. Additionally, this supplement has a new module with speculative trade rules for merchant-based campaigns on Trystell. Go take a look!...
It's been hinted at for some time now, but today we officially announce the close of the Trystell: Reborn Open Beta. This was a period of open beta testing of the new Saga Machine rules for the Trystell: Reborn setting. We are closing the beta period now in order to focus on integrating in the new rules changes, both from the Open Beta and from the changes brought in by the Saga Machine Companion....
Today I am pleased to announce the release of the next Trystell: Reborn PDF supplement, and the largest one we're released since the Trystell: Reborn Beta books came out. So without further ado, let me announce the Trystell: Reborn - What Lies Beneath campaign! This is a full campaign set in Trystell: Reborn's core city of Melanoc, designed to take a party of player characters from Novice level to Distinguished level as part of the city's Legion. This PDF supplement weights in at 43 pages--over 34,000 words--and includes scenarios that put the characters in combat, political dealings, making magical discoveries, commanding troops in the mass combat system and defending themselves in the new Trial Subsystem introduced in the Saga Machine Companion....
Oh my, this has been a busy quarter for Tab Creations. While we didn't meet all of our quarterly deadlines, we did get a larger-than-usual amount of work accomplished, and are posed to have a number of releases in the imminent future. Let's look at what's been accomplished:...
It is time to present our final Freebie Spotlight leading up to the release of the Saga Machine Companion: the updated Saga Machine Consequence Cards. This play aid is a set of cards representing common consequences in the Saga Machine system, their effects and other useful information....
This time we have a double Freebie Spotlight! Updated for the new systems found in the Saga Machine Companion, I present the Companion Zeotis Character Sheet and the Companion Zeotis Encounter Sheet! These represent the last of the setting sheets that needed updating for use with the Saga Machine Companion. In the future look forward to the updated Consequence Cards and then finally the Saga Machine Companion itself!...