Press Release: Shades of Vengeance Launches Free Rulebook Primer
- Dirk Vandereyken
- Mar 14, 2016
- 2 min read
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Only 8 days. That's how long before British roleplaying game company Shades of Vengeance launches its newest Kickstarter project, after successfully completing all previous Kickstarter campaigns. This time, the Era game system, which has gotten rave reviews, is used to breathe life into - and add drama to - a setting in which the future of humanity looks bleak indeed. Contagion has spread worldwide, infecting most survivors, making them sick first and mutating them in later stages of the disease.
Era: Survival is not your ordinary zombie setting. Neither is it a typical postapocalyptic world. In Era: Survival, mankind has scattered, but survivors have formed many different – and oftentimes competing – factions. Tensions run high, treachery is always around the corner, schemes are being hatched and bizarre religions have gotten a grip on many who are left.
To celebrate the Kickstarter launch, Shades of Vengeance has now made the quick start rules for the very first Era game it released, Era: The Consortium, available to download for free. This way, gamers can already familiarise themselves with the rules, which are compatible with Survival. Featuring an easy-to-learn but involved and innovative system, The Consortium spans 500 years of future history, focusing on the descendants of human colonists who lost much of their memories after crash-landing for reasons unknown to the general populace. The biggest megacorporations are at constant odds with the Senate, which itself was formed out of the 200 largest corporations founded after the crash.
During the past 5 centuries, humanity made contact – and often warred with – several alien species that now coexist with the humans… at least nominally. Players can take the role of an aquatic Eulutian, an insectoid Ximian or a Vilithii - a race of sentient plants. Many of these alien beings have their own secret agenda and schemes. With an entire homeworld wiped out secretly during a covert operation led by two of the most influential corporations, tensions are sure to rise and distrust is running rampant.
The Era: The Consortium Quick Rulebook Primer contains everything needed to play and get players up to date with the unique Consortium setting and the great Era game system used to bring it to life.
Please share this information and the following links with your readers and let us know if you're interested in reviewing any of the books published by Shades of Vengeance or writing about our unique ongoing Patreon campaign. Also please share the news of our upcoming Era: Survival Kickstarter.
Download the Era: The Consortium - Rulebook Primer here and share this link:
More info on Shades of Vengeance:
The Era: Survival Kickstarter is launching on the 23rd of March, 2016
After the Kickstarter, Era: Survival will be available (at a higher price) at:
DriveThruRPG (digital only)
Selected brick & mortar stores in the UK, Australia and Spain
Indie Press Revolution
Conventions
The Shades of Vengeance online store
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