Out a ways from the big city lies the town of Coldwater, named after the body of water it borders. Coldwater is a complacent place and its residents prefer it that way, thank you very much. Most townsfolk will greet you with a smile, but asking about the Incident from about a year back will get you met with cold stares and abruptly shut doors. But here’s the thing, folks have started disappearing again, and this time it was out-of-towners.
WHAT IS THE BLOOM? The Bloom is a sandbox adventure for Liminal Horror. Something sinister is creeping beneath the town of Coldwater. Campers have gone missing, but the townsfolk won’t say a word and the authorities are less than helpful. Can your team of Investigators find out the truth and save the town before it’s too late?
An age where magic and technology mash. Where mutants and monsters roam the toxic wastelands and ruins of the forgotten world. Only the strong survive in this new kill-or-be-killed world where attitude is everything! Take up the mantle of a Scum Dog adventurer, to brave the dangers of the wastelands in search of cash and prizes.
Collect fantastical gear and wield the galaxies' most powerful weapons to become the baddest dude in Neo-Terraxx. Do you have what it takes to become the Neon Lord? Half Medieval Fantasy half Sci-Fi, neon lords of the toxic wasteland is a no-holds-barred to-the-max game! Oozing 80’s and 90’s nostalgia!
I welcome Jason Oberman, the creator of 6083, a military sci-fi game that has been 38 years in the making, and is now available on print on demand through DriveThruRPG. Jason is a retired career soldier whose military journey has leaked into the game’s DNA, resulting in a TTRPG experience with influence from real-life military culture. 6083 is an original TTRPG with a unique ruleset, and is not based upon any current or past game systems. It has some mild-rule complexity (crunch), but aims to provide a role playing experience that is cinematic with detailed and fast paced combat encounters.
Jesse Schell is the author of the critically acclaimed book "The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses," published in 2008. The book captured Game Developer Magazine's coveted "Front Line Award" in 2008. In 2014, he released the second edition of this book. In 2019 the tenth anniversary and third edition of the book was released. Jesse is also the founder and CEO of @SchellGames .
Since starting Schell Games in 2002, Jesse has grown it into the largest and most successful game development company in Pennsylvania. Under his leadership, Schell Games has produced an amazing array of innovative, transformational and award-winning entertainment experiences, including the Disney Fairies MMO, Pixie Hollow, Toy Story Mania TV Game and some of the most popular interactive theme park attractions in the world. Jesse also holds a faculty position as Distinguished Professor at the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) of Carnegie Mellon University. Since 2006, Professor Schell has taught the Building Virtual Worlds class, created by ETC Co-Founder and "The Last Lecture" author, Randy Pausch. Prior to starting Schell Games, Jesse was the Creative Director of the Disney Imagineering Virtual Reality Studio, where he worked and played for seven years as a designer, programmer, and manager on numerous projects for Disney theme parks and DisneyQuest.
He is perhaps most celebrated for his design of Disney's Toontown Online, the first massively multiplayer game for kids. Toontown Online won several awards, including the following:
Computer Gaming World - "2003 MMORPG Game of the Year"
In addition to his award-winning work at The Walt Disney Company, Jesse has achieved numerous accomplishments, including the following:
KAPi Pioneer Award in 2019 - Pioneer in Immersive Reality Award in 2018
Pittsburgh Technology Council Tech50 CEO of the Year in 2016
Pittsburgh Technology Council 2016 CREATE Selection
Creators of the Year
Selected as Pittsburgh Business Times Most Admired CEOs in 2016
Named a Smart 50 business leader in 2014
Selected as Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2009 Finalist for Upstate NY, Western Pennsylvania, and West Virginia region
Named one of the world's Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT's Technology Review (2004)
Served as Director and Chairman of the International Game Developers Association (2003-2005)
Lead designer of "2001 Thea Award" winner, Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle of the Buccaneer Gold, a virtual reality attraction within Disney's theme park
Cut his technical teeth as a Software Engineer for IBM and Bell Communications Research
Earned a Master's Degree in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University
Earned a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
In the summer of 1973, as Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax worked to complete the manuscript for D&D, Greg Svenson was given a play-test copy of that novel new game. He used those rules to create his own adventure dungeon.
Tonisborg is the second oldest Mega Dungeon to come out of the Twin Cities group. Svenson and Arneson placed the dungeon in the world of Blackmoor, where Vestfold is located today. Sadly, several years later all copies of the maps were thought lost or destroyed. The maps came to be known as "The Lost Dungeons of Tonisborg," or "Tonisborg" for short.
Decades later, during production of the documentary, Secrets of Blackmoor, a mysterious set of ten old dungeon maps was uncovered - these turned out to be photocopies of Svenson's originals.
Now published with extensive background information, The Lost Dungeons of Tonisborg is not like any RPG book you've ever encountered. Step back into time with one of the oldest dungeon adventures ever created!
