A Technique is a set of combat maneuvers, styles, stances, or weapon proficiencies. One Technique is selected at character creation, with the opportunity of improving it over time or learning new Techniques as the character advances. Each Technique is triggered under different circumstances or when using a particular weapon. For example, Toogan Harbeck has taken the […]
Character sheets are always an integral part of a role-playing game. They’re a cool to be used before and during gameplay; to facilitate the character creation process, and how that character interacts with the world. Forge of Valor has gone through dozens of character sheet permutations, but our design principles have been clear from the […]
After two years and countless drafts, the Forge of Valor RPG Manuscript is done. Whew. The final version clocked in right at 104k words, including the tables and Asset lists. The first “final” draft was nearly 130k, but I made a number of preliminary edits and revisions that reduced that by about 20%. Now, it’s […]