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Quote from Teenage Mutant Sarpah: “You know what I would like far more than a card game? A book of the myths of the Devah! While the myth on the origin of the caste system was very nice I really want to read the myths that were teased at in the first book! i want to know who Krilarah was creating on Kramah with and I want to see Hropa who really kind of has barely been mentioned while Murtyu has risen to prominence from mini-adventures and the later books, I'm really not much of gamer as I am a …

Quote from Teenage Mutant Sarpah: “I seriously doubt that the main thing I play RPGs for is not combat that's my least favorite part but for RP and story...Does your card game do that? I stopped watched the Yu Gi Oh! Anime when they started playing like the actual card game and the show became a lot more boring ” Yeah,...I totally get it. Watching a show that tries to pace itself like some kind of game mechanic is no fun for me either... On the other hand, playing a tabletop game is always expec…

Quote from Teenage Mutant Sarpah: “My sister saw your stall at last convention she called me and I said I have all three of the big books so if they had anything new she could get it for me...There was nothing but I wasn't surprised...But unfortunatly I can't get my mind around card games so I don't want that ” The interesting thing about the Shard Spiral Arena card game, and hopefully what will interest folks who are enjoying our paper RPG, is that its rules and playable dynamics mimic the comb…

We've already signed up for, and have started preparing for, Gen Con 2024! It's so crazy, because it feels SO early, but we've already had to get our rooms, and we'll soon be purchasing our plane tickets. We're already trying to plan some new product line-up for this year, to include a new Art Book and some play-mats with various selections of our new art being showcased. This year we may be changing our standard format for running demos to allow for the introduction of some play-testing session…

Quote from Devah Dancer: “I noticed Shard RPG will be at Gen Con Indy again this year. Will you be running any sessions of Shard during the con? I do not see any listed yet, but I know event catalog is updated regularly. ” Hello Devah Dancer!!! And as you can tell,...especially as life gets in the way and necessities drive my passions to the back seat, haunting the Forums as much as I should becomes harder and harder to do... PLEASE forgive the lateness of my response, and I was SO GLAD to see y…

Quote from ReaperWolf: “Yikes, I've been sitting on this adventure since 2016... ” It happens, my friend, and I totally understand! We've all got a LOT of plates spinning in our lives, and our passions and hobbies often have to take a back seat to the essentials and necessities... Any attention or love you're willing to give to Shard is always wonderfully welcomed, and totally warms my heart.

Quote from Whill: “I posted a version of this short review on the Drive-Thru RPG page for the book. ” Thanks SO much for that!!!!

Quote from Teenage Mutant Sarpah: “That note about antlers being OK to use for stuff got me thinking if Janah like Sheep, Lllamas, Alpacas etc sheer themselves and make clothes and blankets and stuff with their own wool ” Yes! I'm sure that kind of things is quite acceptable, since they are essentially "producing" their own product for the sake of selling to others. It's basically no different than humans who will buy real hair from folks who sell/donate it for use in wig-making... Likewise, Pak…

Great news! Having contacted the good folks at Drive-Thru RPG, I've updated our Shard Studio account, added the World Guide as the newest book available for the sake of PDF sales, and have additionally set it up as a test to make it available for Print on Demand as well, so folks overseas in Europe can finally get their hands on a hard-copy! It's not quite ready yet, though! We're still waiting for the printable files to get approved, and then we'll be ordering a "proof" copy to make sure it's u…

Quote from Teenage Mutant Sarpah: “One thing I thought about in regards to the plants of Dardunah while as mentioned in the Farming section there are vegetables analagous to the ones we have on Earth, the mention of 'almond stuffed pastries' in Nilam's culture section got me thinking, did some Earth plants also come to Dardunah? You know as food for the zoo animals? ” That could very well be possible, if you like the idea of specific Earth plants being in your campaign, and/or have story ideas b…

I want to address a question that has been asked on a number of occasions. Are there ways of getting physical copies of our products outside of the United States, while avoiding the unfortunate shipping fees associated with international shipments... Some have hoped to be able to get them from Drive-Thru RPG, which in recent years has set themselves up to offer various titles as "print-on-demand" offerings. At the time we set up our account with Drive-Thru for our earlier products a long while b…

Quote from Teenage Mutant Sarpah: “So...Hopefully have that to look forward to, learning about what each of the Talons lost in exchange for their powers I find it interesting that taste was one sense lost but not smell ” Yes,...that's right. Jvalah's sense of smell remained, but her mouth was forever filled with nothing but the taste of blood once she came into her full powers as a Talon... The aspects of what they lost were based more on mysticism and iconic meaning than they were limits to phy…

Quote from Whill: “Quote from Scott Jones: “If you'd like to order it directly from our publisher, just use this link! studio2publishing.com/products/shard-rpg-world-guide ” I did order it directly from the publisher. It arrived very quickly, well-packaged, and in good condition. It's taken me a few weeks to go through it. Amazing! This is a massive tome with a dense, four-page TOC. It is definitely the thickest RPG book on my bookshelf. The amount of information in this book is difficult to bel…

Yes! You are quite correct! At first, after the arrival of the Children of the Great Mother and Father, these first jánah (the "people", who included all the Devah spoken of in the Partakám, and many thousands more), blessed as they were (according to lore) by their holy parents with practical agelessness, became the progenitors of the rest of the peoples of Dárdünah to follow (who were certainly long-lived in the earliest days, but were nonetheless "mortal" in comparison to the "Firstborn Jánah…

Quote from Teenage Mutant Sarpah: “Yeah I read that part just the ambiguaty left me very confused like OK which is she? ” Well, you had mentioned that you were disappointed because the one Talon you thought was Paksin "was actually a Vajrah", so I just wanted to clarify there's no reason for disappointment because we never define "what she actually was" in the text (nor was it our intention to do so for the Talons), except for within the scholarly treatise on Magári history, which still insists …

Quote from Teenage Mutant Sarpah: “So after finally getting the World Guide and reading it, my shock at finding the Eagle Talon described in the first book was actually a Fox...Is it too much to say I was disapointed since the rest of the Talons were Vajrah the one Paksin member was actually a Vajrah ” I'm assuming you're talking about Jvalah... Please don't despair! The lore, of what jenu any particular Talon of Kramah was, changes wildly depending on what culture you're asking (like some of th…

I think applying something like that in your Shard campaign is a cool idea! Especially if that quirk is linked to some emerging storyline element that creates conflict or some other dilemma that must be solved.

Quote from Teenage Mutant Sarpah: “With any luck I'll have it for Christmas cuz too late for my birthday ” It's finally here, and ready to be ordered in time for the holiday season!!!! It barely arrived at our publisher's warehouses JUST in time to get loaded on the truck headed out to Gen Con. If you'd like to order one for yourself, just use this link! studio2publishing.com/products…os=1&_sid=38c7c2893&_ss=r

Quote from Ednoria: “Are we able to order yet? I've been waiting (im)patiently... ” Yes indeed! And thanks for the compliments on how nice this new book looks! It truly is beautiful! If you'd like to order it directly from our publisher, just use this link! studio2publishing.com/products…os=1&_sid=38c7c2893&_ss=r

Quote from Devah Dancer: “I am so crazy excited to hear this! This is definitely going to be one of my 1st stops in the Exhibit Hall at Gen Con. Do you have a price estimation so I can factor the world guide into my Gen Con budget? Thank you again so much! ” Hey there!!! I'm so sorry I didn't end up seeing this before Gen Con!!!! I feel like a total goober!!! That last month before we left for the show was so hectic that I could barely pull myself out of my tasks to even look at the forums, and …