I Have Powers - [s7s] S7S Preorders are GO!!!

December 2009

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Skyships ply the 7 Skies, soaring from Cloud-Island to Cloud-Island for conquest, espionage, trade, and piracy. Kingdoms clash, cultures collide, and secrets abound. Heroes and villains roam Above the Blue, seeking action, intrigue, adventure, and style. Will you be one of them?

Enter the world of Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies (S7S), the latest game from Chad Underkoffler featuring the PDQ system! In S7S you'll find a richly detailed setting of sky-ships, piracy, intrigue, mysticism, musketeers, and more, whether you're sailing through the haunted Ghost Sky, battling pirates from the inconstant isle of Ilwuz, intriguing in the Spider Empress' court of Barathi, or chasing thieves across the rooftops of Agua Azul.

Weighing in at a hefty 323 pages, S7S offers an upgrade to your PDQ experience with the PDQ Sharp (PDQ#) system, fully realized and detailed -- with plenty of examples -- and packed with swashbuckling action. Those unfamiliar with PDQ will find a lightweight system that won't bog you down, and long-time PDQ fans will discover just a little extra "crunch" added to make those deadly duels ring with the clash of drawn steel.

To learn more about S7S, including downloads of a setting summary and character sheet, visit the official S7S website at www.7skies.net.

This special, limited-run hardcover edition of Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies includes the 7"x10" hardcover book, the PDF, and a "dingbat" font of blazons and sigils from the S7S universe. A softcover edition will be released in a couple months more.

As noted above, you can now pre-order the limited-run hardcover edition of S7S, and get some exclusive goodies while you're at it!!!

To show Good Form, please boost the signal by posting links to www.7skies.net and the IPR page in your LJs, Facebook profiles, and Twitter feeds.

And, swashbuckling pre-orderers, if you like the World of the 7 Skies after you've read your complimentary PDF+Print combo, feel free to add to that World at Captain Wiki's Swashbuckling Atlas (setting material) or at the S7S page at the Evil Hat wiki (alternate and optional rules).

Lastly, but not leastly, look to this LJ over the pre-order period for further tidbits about the World of the 7 Skies, the game in general, game design thoughts, and other stuff!

Thank you all, and keep watching the 7 Skies!

Tags: 240 dollars worth of puddin', asmp, books, evilhat, game design, gaming, mad rpg theory, pdq, s7s, work journal, writing

	From: drivingblind	Date: March 31st, 2009 12:11 am (UTC)		(Link)

	From: dadiceguy	Date: March 31st, 2009 12:16 am (UTC)		(Link)

	From: nixieq	Date: March 31st, 2009 01:05 am (UTC)		(Link)

	From: wombattery	Date: March 31st, 2009 01:09 am (UTC)		(Link)

Ordered!

Or, at any rate, pre-ordered!

	From: eynowd	Date: March 31st, 2009 01:55 am (UTC)		(Link)

My wife may kill me, but I've preordered it. When we finally get around to meeting, you can sign it for me :)

	From: chadu	Date: March 31st, 2009 02:13 am (UTC)		(Link)

	From: akrissy	Date: March 31st, 2009 02:02 am (UTC)		(Link)

The cover really does look great! the perfect intro to the rest of your creation.

	From: chadu	Date: March 31st, 2009 02:13 am (UTC)		(Link)

Thank you, K!

Edited at 2009-03-31 02:14 am (UTC)

	From: samaritan1975	Date: March 31st, 2009 03:00 am (UTC)		(Link)

I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Barring that, I will find peace with the pre-order I just made. :)

	From: fullmotor	Date: March 31st, 2009 06:23 am (UTC)		(Link)

Congratulations, Chad. And by that, I mean congratulations on taking my money.

	From: chrisbirch	Date: March 31st, 2009 08:36 am (UTC)		(Link)

well done Fred, can't wait to see it!

	From: warren_locke	Date: April 1st, 2009 02:44 am (UTC)		(Link)

I hadn't heard anything about this until I saw it on IPR, and it punched me right in my imaginative sweet spot. Add in my wife's love of sky pirates and the limited hardcover run and you might as well have named this game "I'm Taking Your Money".

In other words, pre-ordered. And thanks for making an awesome looking game, I can't wait to play it.

	From: dhw	Date: April 1st, 2009 07:07 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Rules Clarification question:

Since Techniques may only be used once per scene, does that mean that a Koldun may only use a given gift once per scene?

	From: chadu	Date: April 1st, 2009 07:17 pm (UTC)		(Link)

(p. 139) "Each Technique can only be used once per Turn within a Scene, but multiple Techniques can be used at the same time."

(p. 152) "A koldun can only activate one of their Gifts at a time, but after that can maintain several at once. [...] Only Archkoldun—see below—can activate multiple Gift Fortes or Techniques simultaneously."

	From: jonlaw	Date: April 2nd, 2009 01:44 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Cash is on the barrelhead, PDF is on my hard drive, bliss is in my soul.

Thank you. I look forward to savoring this.

Atomic Evil rocks!

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