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The release of the Age of Ambition core rulebook is getting closer!...
The countdown to the PDF release of Age of Ambition continues. At this point, all we're waiting on are the final three pieces of art. They're all been commissioned, and we hope to receive them and release the PDF by the end of April....
This week we hit a major milestone for Age of Ambition. As of last night, the layout of the core rulebook is complete! All that remains is to wait for the last few pieces of art to come in. There are 5 pieces left: 3 active commissions and 2 pieces waiting in the queue. We expect those to be completed and the PDF sent out to backers in the next couple weeks....
We're making steady progress with Age of Ambition, even if it is occasionally not as fast as I'd like....
Hello, everyone! This week we've made some great progress....
The world is a strange place right now amid the COVID-19 outbreak, so I'll make this post quick. It's been roughly a month since the Age of Ambition Kickstarter came to a close....
Sometime during the first three months every year, we make a post looking back at the previous year and looking forward at the year to come. I try to make this a frank discussion of where our business stands, in the vein of Mongoose Publishing's State of the Mongoose, Steve Jackson Games' Stakeholders Report or Evil Hat's many open reports. It's our attempt to add some transparency to the tabletop gaming industry....
When we publish a new roleplaying game product there is a regular process that we go through to ensure that it meets our quality standards. A few years ago I blogged about this process, but I think an update is long overdue....
Age of Ambition is set in the fantasy world of Trystell. It is a world that is in the process of evolving beyond sword and sorcery, advancing culturally and technologically into a new age. It is home to a number of different peoples—from human and minotaurs, to ogres and gnomes. It is also the moon of a gas giant, with a hostile sister moon that once tried to colonize the world....
As is inevitable in many RPGs, sooner or later diplomacy will fail. Blades will be drawn. Blood will be spilt. And someone will decide that they would rather murder their opposition than stand aside....