Silvervine News

Posted by John Arcadian on May 17th, 2011 in News | Comments Off on You Can Now Buy Direct From The SVG Online Store!

With the new print run and a bit of leftover stock of penny dreadfuls and bandannas, we’ve set up an online store. You can buy the Core Rulebook/Cyrus Worldbook w/PDF, our 2 published Penny Dreadfuls, or get yourself a stylish and sexy SVG Bandanna. Go be a bold little consumer and help us fund new projects! /purchase.html

Posted by John Arcadian on Apr 29th, 2011 in Downloads, News | Comments Off on Player Picture Project PDF Updated

Good News Everyone! We’ve just updated our process for the Player Picture Project and given it a permanent home on our website. /playerpictureproject If you aren’t familiar with the PPP, you should be. Since we love seeing the incredible and diverse characters that come from our players, we try to make use of them in our publications and games whenever we can. If you submit your character to the Player Picture Project using the PPP PDF form, we might turn it into a Pregen for use at convention games, include it...

Posted by John Arcadian on Apr 14th, 2011 in Convention News | Comments Off on Upcoming Conventions

We’ve been scrambling on convention prep this year, but we are hitting more smaller conventions in the area. We just went to UBcon up in Buffalo, New York and it was great. Here is a bit of heads up on the next conventions we’ll be going to. Fopcon – The Federal Order of Police Convention Saturday April 30th 4275 Powell Rd. Huber Heights, Ohio http://fopcon.com/ John and Ed will be running games and character creation. John will also be trying to explain his multiple speeding tickets… Ancon – Another Game Con May 20th – 22nd Clarion Inn...

Posted by John Arcadian on Apr 5th, 2011 in Silvervine Gaming Article | Comments Off on Focuses As Enablers

One of the most awesome things about the thematic and cinematic angles built into the Silvervine system is the fact that focuses and skills act to enable a player’s ideas instead of limiting them. Some game systems are so mechanically focused that not having the specific power means you can’t perform particular tasks. This is less of a mechanical aspect of those systems and more of a game philosophy. “In order to do X, you need ability Y.” Sometimes this is stated, sometimes it is just assumed. To me, the powers a character has should never...

Posted by John Arcadian on Mar 31st, 2011 in Idle | Comments Off on The Culmination Of A Dream – SVG Microbrew Pub & Offices

When we started Silvervine 7 years ago, it was little more than a time filler project in between games. Matt Solomon and I had played a game of 3rd ed. D&D that ended in a rules dispute. Imbibing copious amounts of sake, we talked about everything we’d love to see in a roleplaying game. 7 years later, we’ve put the main book out and gained a decent little following. It has gotten a lot bigger than we planned, but that’s good. It’s taken us by surprise and we’ve grown a lot more than we ever expected. For the last few months, we’ve been...

Posted by John Arcadian on Mar 15th, 2011 in News | Comments Off on It’s 11pm EST, and I’m Working On Getting A Second Print Run Out

A few days ago we finished up a post publication proofing run on the Silvervine Games Core Rulebook & Cyrus Worldbook. See, we were pretty hard pressed against our deadline for printing the first run in order to make sales at Con On The Cob. It was hectic. We did some very late nights, we worked out plans and backup plans in case the printers couldn’t deliver, and we got it out on time and had completely unexpected levels of sales. It was great, but more typos than we were comfortable with crept in or weren’t picked up. There were also some...

Posted by John Arcadian on Mar 4th, 2011 in Downloads, Generic Gaming Article, News | Comments Off on A Gift Of An Unusual Sort For GM’s Day – The Silvervine Games General Print Disclaimer

It’s March 4th again, GM’s day. A day to celebrate everything about being a Game Master. To reward those who run our games, putting in hours of hard work beforehand or improvising on the fly to give us really great play experiences. GM’s day is also traditionally a day to put gaming supplies on sale, and that is something we’d normally do, but we’ve got something different for you this GM’s day. Let me start by telling you a little story. A few months back, I was running a one shot of an adventure that I was writing a review of for Gnome...

Posted by John Arcadian on Feb 21st, 2011 in News | Comments Off on If Anybody Says We’re Bad At Giving Constant Updates…

they’d be pretty spot on, unfortunately. The upside to long pauses between updates is that it usually means we are busy working on things to bring to you! We’ve got a lot that has kept us busy these two months. Some of those things are: Getting the book ready for a second printing. We released with a limited run at Con On The Cob this last October, and we sold out not soon after. Since we had a pretty rushed end to the production cycle, we wanted to give the book a good going over again. And that’s exactly what we’ve been doing. Much of our...

Posted by John Arcadian on Dec 23rd, 2010 in Downloads, News | Comments Off on One More Christmas Gift and Some News

One of the things I love most about having made a gaming system is watching fans interact with and make modifications to it. Recently I got something just like this in my inbox. Silvervine fan Mike Rutenbar emailed me a word document character sheet that he made for the Silvervine system. It mimics the style and feel of “Old School” character sheets used for D&D prior to 3rd edition. The sheet was so awesome we made some minor tweaks and got Mike’s permission to upload it. So, as a final christmas gift to everyone here is Mike’s Old School...

Posted by John Arcadian on Dec 22nd, 2010 in News | Comments Off on End Of The Year Sale And More News To Come…

Well, things have been mighty quiet around the Silvervine Games offices these last few weeks. With some great successes at our fall conventions and some great responses online, we got struck by the plague and spent a good chunk of the past few weeks recuperating. With health returned (mostly) we’ve got a few end of the year gifts for everyone. First, we’ve reduced the price of the Core Rulebook and Cyrus Worldbook until the end of the year. Get it now for only $12.99. If you’ve been waiting for something like this to pick the book up, now is...