We had an AWESOME time at Ancon 2010. The convention was awesome beyond awesome. There were so many incredible moments. Special thanks to everyone who participated in the Reisja Stones tournament: Amber, Ben, Brian, Ian, Larry, and Mark. You guys made it incredible and your added storyline was awesome!!!!!!!
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Hey all NE Ohio SVG Fans (or anyone wanting to travel farther)!
Want to get a taste of what Silvervine is offering up for the 2010 convention season? With Ancon 8 days away, we are going to be doing some practice runs for 4 of our adventures this Sunday at the Silvervine Offices. If you live near Akron Ohio and would like to get in on some pre-convention games, you are invited.
We’ll be running games at 2pm and 7pm on Sunday May 16th. In order to get involved, register by emailing playtest [@] silvervinegames.com and we will send you more information. Playtests will be run in Massillon, Ohio and should take 3-4 hours for each one. Nothing is required and no fore-knowledge of the game system is needed. Pre-generated characters will be used for the games and all materials will be made available, but you can always bring your own starting level (275 Exp) characters.
Want to make your character beforehand? Use the Quick CC Guide – found here.
One of the biggest sticking points for completing the Silvervine Core Rulebook has been finishing the writing on the world of Cyrus. Cyrus was the reason that Silvervine got started in the first place, and it has always been Matt’s baby. Since I was tasked with writing it up as an RPG game world instead of a world that was the backdrop to his in-progress novel, I’ve always had an odd relationship with it.
On one hand, Matt isn’t your typical gamer and had lots of unique ideas for the world. Back in those days I hadn’t been exposed to a lot of the non D&D games that I’ve come to love today. Things that matt proposed for the world I always had a hard time integrating into my idea of what tabletop gaming was. The more I did though, the more I came to embrace many of the more unique points of Cyrus.
On the other hand, Matt isn’t your typical gamer and never had as much exposure to what kinds of things have become cliche’ in games. A lot of elements that could be found within the World of Cyrus were cases of parallel development to concepts found in many other fantasy settings. I’d shake my hand at the heavens every time I would mention the latest thing to come out of a brainstorming session and one of my friends would tell me about how that was like a tribe of werewolves in White-wolf, or how a group of Elves in forgotten realms had similar qualities to a tribe of Elves in Cyrus.
So I’ve only got 14 pages left to outline for the 80 page Cyrus section. The outlining is actually the biggest step. It is where I take all the conglomerated Cyrus information and decide what is actually going to make it into the final book. With a large bullet point list of things that I want to include, detailed with Setting Information, Adventure Hooks, Cool Factors, NPC names, and lots of other stuff, the remaining writing is easier. It is looking really good at this point and I’m feeling great about how Matt’s world of Cyrus is shaping up. We are pushing hard to have a final sellable book by Origins this year, but I’ll make no guarantees. We’ve been six years in the making and playtesting and I don’t want to have a half-assed product out there with my name on it.
Also, to whet your whistle, here is a bit of preview art, done by the incredibly awesome Avery Liell-Kok.
In it you can see the Rings of Cyrus, an idea of Matt’s that I wasn’t totally sold on until I saw this video:
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