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Broadly speaking, every traditional role-playing game has some sort of system for tracking the health and well-being of its characters. Classically, as in Dungeons & Dragons, these are expressed as Hit Points. Other systems such as Savage Worlds or Vampire: The Masquerade use some sort of...

With each passing Storytellers Vault Roundup, it seems, we have more news to announce regarding favorite lines being opened up for development. In the wake of recent Werewolf: The Apocalypse and Mind’s Eye Theatre announcements, we now have Mage: The Ascension soon to join the ranks as well...

This month's Storytellers Vault Roundup takes a look at a pair of setting sourcebooks for Vampire: The Masquerade, but we start with a quick follow-up product to last month's announcement regarding Werewolf: The Apocalypse being opened up for development. The Storytellers Vault Style Guide...

In addition to the usual roundup of interesting products available in the program, this month's Storytellers Vault Roundup brings an announcement long awaited by fans of the World of Darkness. White Wolf's Shane DeFreest revealed the big news: "White Wolf Entertainment announced today [May...

Welcome to this month's Storyteller's Vault Roundup! The Vault has been anything but quiet, and there's a lot to catch up on, so let's dive in, shall we? Content creators now have access to a bunch of art, old and new alike, to add to their publications. At the time of writing, there are...

Welcome once more to our monthly roundup of offerings from the Statosphere, the community-generated content portal for the Unknown Armies RPG. This month, we're breaking from tradition to look at just one product...and it's a doozy. In contrast to the smaller rules supplements we've mostly...

The concept of player agency is a central pillar of all role-playing games. It is a balancing factor against the omnipotent, omniscient Game Master. For the purposes of this article, we will be focusing on the smaller-scale application of player agency and the role of game mechanics that negate...

Welcome to this month’s Storyteller’s Vault Roundup! As with the last couple updates, we bring you more exciting news as the Vault continues to expand to encompass other Vampire-related game lines. This month, Kindred of the East gets the nod, along with "new color Ebony Kingdom sourcebook...

Welcome once more to our monthly roundup of offerings from the Statosphere, the community-generated content portal for the Unknown Armies RPG. This month, we're taking a look at a trio of titles to drop into—or even kick off—your campaigns. First up is Game Over by Alex Powell. This 10-page...

Welcome once more to our monthly roundup of offerings from the Statosphere, the community-generated content portal for the Unknown Armies RPG. This month, we're taking a look at a trio of new systems of magick. Each presents a definition of the style in question (along with various nicknames...

Welcome to this month's Storyteller's Vault Roundup! This time around we have more exciting news to share for fans of alternate Vampire: The Masquerade settings, and we'll be taking a look at the products coming out from Josh Heath and his team at High Level Games. First up, as teased in...

Back in Ye Olden Days, when I was first starting out running RPG campaigns, I sincerely believed that the worst thing that could happen to a player-character would be for them to die. This belief was encouraged, in part, by the mechanics of the games I was running at the time, particularly AD&D...

Welcome to this month's Storyteller's Vault Roundup! This month we have some exciting news for fans of historical Vampire: The Masquerade gaming, as well as a couple spotlights on recent releases from the Vault. When first launched, the Storyteller's Vault remit limited content creators...

Like WotC's Dungeon Masters Guild and White Wolf's Storytellers Vault, Atlas Games has entered the field of fan-contributed content with the (appropriately) enigmatically-named Statosphere program for their Unknown Armies RPG. Why is an enigmatic name appropriate? Because, as discussed in our...

Launched just prior to this year's Gen Con, Storytellers Vault is a crowd-sourced content creation arrangement that allows fans of World of Darkness to create and sell supplements for their favorite games from that line. The Storytellers Vault is similar to the successful Dungeon Masters Guild...

Weighing in at 680 pages, Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition (M20 from here on out), like any forbidden tome of arcane knowledge worth the name, is a massive brick of a book. To be fair, M20 had to encapsulate a complex cosmology, intricate rules for reality-bending magic, and a...

Written by Rich Lescouflair and published by Alligator Alley Entertainment, Esper Genesis is an RPG subtitled Heroic Sci-Fi Roleplaying. The cover bears a "5E Compatible" stamp, and indeed this game presents what is essentially the current edition of D&D reskinned for over-the-top space opera...

It seems like a simple question, but the way you answer it may, in effect, determine the metaphysics of your game. Many RPGs use some sort of "experience point" system to model growth and learning. The progenitor of this idea is, of course, Dungeons & Dragons; the Experience Point (XP) system...

Published by White Wolf in 1999 as part of its line of supplements for Vampire: the Dark Ages, the 94-page Cainite Heresy provides details on a heretical sect within the vampiric world. Part of the apocalyptic "Year of the Reckoning" line of World of Darkness products that traded on real-world...