Rio de Janeiro is a city divided, its poor and dispossessed crowded into favela slums that occupy the surrounding hills and ridges. The slums are ruled by violence: armed drug gangs for the majority, and brutal occupation by police for those that become political liabilities. The Arisen concealed in the slums remain hidden, ignoring the bloodshed whenever they can and using it to hide their own struggles.... [click here for more]
Does the mouse in the maze think:“Today I shall try a different route. Go left instead of right. Chew through a wall. Refuse to run.”?Does it? I think not. I think the mouse runs because it only knows the maze. It follows the corridors like a charge following a circuit.It knows all routes lead to the same end.You know it, too. You left,... [click here for more]
"Fighting the Machine is like fighting the ocean. You literally cannot hurt it. Doesn’t matter how much poison we dump into the ocean. We’ll only kill the things in it. We’ll never kill it. Same with the God-Machine. Kill angels, traitors, stigmatics, cultists, cryptids, whatever, you’ll never hurt the Machine Itself. No, that doesn’t mean we stop trying. You stop trying, you drown.... [click here for more]
The Exalted stand astride Creation, ready to remake the world in their own image. From the mightiest Solar to the lowliest Exigent, they are heroes one and all. Yet Creation is vast, and the stories it can hold innumerable. Herein are the tools of the forge where heroes are made, the grand crucible in which the story of the Exalted can be told.
Crucible of Legend presents Storytellers and... [click here for more]
“Don’t try to pin my success on mind-reading, kid. Nothing beats hard work and worn soles for getting to the bottom of a good story. I was a success well before I covered the Hammersmith affair. The only thing that’s done for me is make the world a much more exciting place to get a scoop.”
— Helen Perkins, Mesmerist
Trinity Continuum: Adventure! is a game of pulp action... [click here for more]