Anthropos Games

New Website Design

2011-09-28T11:02:00.003-05:00

Okay, so we have a new site. This should be easier to update regularly and keep clean. Let us know if you like the new feel after surfing around a bit. We got rid of the Flash and tried to simplify the overall design so it would require less stylistic maintenance as new trends come and go. We were going for classy, tidy, and energetic... So, help us stick to those goals. It is sorta sad how much time things like websites and paperwork take when all you really want to do is play and talk about games.

The picture above is the view from Calvin’s office on campus. Lovely, huh? Construction never stops.

Trying to keep things tidy and professional, without any flashy buttons or gimmicks. Let us know if you like the new look. There may be some construction going on over the next couple weeks: Updating links, adding download content, fixing load times, etc. Thank you for the patience.

Early Dark Character Creation Companion

2011-09-13T10:57:00.000-05:00

The Character Creation Companion is the first supplement for the Early Dark Corebook, and it’s available for FREE. We heard from some of the guys over at Story-Games that character creation needed more examples so we started work on this right away. Two weeks and some botched audio-recording projects later, the CCC is out and available for download.

Follow three players and a Scribe as they decide how to weave the campaign's Scenario and how to begin the adventure. You will find extra information on several character creation choices, where the strategy lies in fleshing out the initial Epithet, and how to make the most of starting Alignments.

In addition to extensive examples, the Character Creation Companion reproduces most of the charts needed to build a character. No more fighting over the Early Dark Corebook when three or four players are choosing Arts and Milieus! This 28-page pamphlet is perfect for Scribes who want to put NPCs together on the fly or for experienced players making a second or third character. The Early Dark Character Creation Companion can even act as an introduction to the world of the Hara Sea, an extended preview of the Early Dark RPG itself.

We put together the Character Creation Companion to give players an extended example of an entire group creating characters. This 28-page booklet is available FREE at DriveThruRPG and includes tips on choosing Alignments, building the first Epithet, and more.

Cleaning Out the Forums

2011-08-18T10:00:00.000-05:00

Spammers are never good, even if the drugs they’re selling sound curious or you find the Cyrillic alphabet fascinating.

Our forum was hit with spam bots early this year, and after many months of manual booting and deleting, we had to do something more drastic. To clean things up, we deleted all members with zero posts and set higher restrictions on becoming a member. Hopefully, changing the URL will help prevent any of the spammers (who got our address from who-knows-where) from finding us again. We’ll all just have to be careful about posting links to the forum.

Hopefully, in the future we’ll have an all-new forum with better security and more useful functions (still having trouble posting pics and things on this one). We’re amping up the living campaign and working on the first two supplements now, but we understand the importance of having a forum where players can get together and discuss the games, offer feedback, and organize their gaming. Please bear with us as we get the overhead in place for our little indie effort. Everyone involved in Anthropos Games has full-time jobs, and sometimes we can’t always afford the state-of-the-art tech we’d really like (such as vBulletin).

Early Dark PDF Release!!

2011-08-08T12:00:00.000-05:00

The Early Dark digital launch just struck at DriveThruRPG. Stop by to pick up your copy today and come back to leave a review after a couple nights of gaming. We are excited to get more people involved in the world of Early Dark, and this is a big step in that direction. The hardcover books should be shipped in November, just in time for holiday vacations that need filling with a good RPG. Click here to purchase now!

Gen Con Frenzy

2011-08-05T15:30:00.000-05:00

We took to the halls of the Indiana Convention Center early Friday, too late to spend a night gaming with our buddies from the forums. When the Fallow Citadels campaign ends next year, hopefully we’ll have a little bigger fanfare at the convention and entice a good number of players to show up for the tourney.

Calvin gets a little too close to the troll after a long morning soaking up the Friday vibe at Gen Con 2011. Will we finally have a booth next year? Only time will tell.

We also saw quite the paradox while wandering around in northern Indianapolis. A door that is neither an exit nor an entry. Just another dimensional portal, we guessed.

Arts and Talents

2010-03-19T10:02:00.000-05:00

We've been working with a great team of artists on our Early Dark project, and-- since we are rounding off development and moving into a marketing period-- we thought it would be cool to get their names up here and give everyone an idea of what things could look like:

Chris Heath: In-house Illustration, Concepts and Design
Ian Kazimer: Creatures and Bestiary
Alex Drummond: Environments
Even Mehl Amundsen: Concepts and Cultures
Soufiane Mengad, or S.M.: Creatures and Cultures
Fredrik Dahl Tyskerud, or dCepT: Cultures
Sands Gonzaga: Cultures
Daniel Garcia: Concepts and Cultures
Mark Hyzer: Cultures and Creatures
Chenthooran Nambiarooran: Cultures
Timothy Terrenal: Cultures
Paul Abrams: Creatures and Splash Pages

We will be featuring some of these artists here and on the main website in the coming months as Early Dark testing ramps up toward the release date this summer!

Silence and Industry

2009-11-15T21:28:00.001-06:00

We've been busy at work signing up artists to work on the national launch of our first title, Early Dark. After receiving twenty or so responses to the ad we posted online, we've settled on four artists to do the bulk of the work. One local artist here in Austin is promising to be a good asset for the company, or so we're hoping. This means we have a month of art direction in front of us while still editing the final versions of the book and deciding what to include and what to save. If the rules don't keep changing on us, we'll be doing fine and staying on schedule.

Rule Revisions: New gameplay focuses for magick users, both Arcane and Loom. We added some dangerous elements for casters and summoners, and now we're bloodthirsty to see what we can do to spice up Mundane combat. With all the new gadgets magickal items allow, the run-of-the-mill fighters might be a little disappointed.

New Blog Afoot

2009-07-31T16:40:00.005-05:00

Anthropos Games has started up this blog for press releases and formal communications with fans and colleagues, saving other social media outlets for other kinds of info. This blog will be tied closely to the official website, offering the latest news and publications in a more complete and extended format than either Facebook or Twitter. Stop by those other sites for day-to-day info and moody, opinion-laden outbursts.