As part of the successful kickstarter campaign, i arranged to buy full rights to the art from the original artists, allowing me to release it for free personal and commercial use by. Create your own monster mythos with silent legions geek native. Silent legions is a modernday lovecraftian roleplaying game, one. Silent legions is a sandbox rpg from kevin crawford that offers gms with the toolkit they need to create their own lovecraftian style alien gods. For those not in the know, sandbox style roleplaying is a structure of rpg campaign where the players largely drive the action, and the gm, rather than having a set plotline, throws. See how greed destroys a city, how loyalty corrupts a kingdom, or how curiosity betrays a galactic empire. Where the ineffable abominations of foreign realities bleed into our world, these heroes are ready to do what they must to drive them back. Mar 29, 2015 kevin crawford is raising funds for silent legions. Fostered in part with the laying to rest of pdm, dtf is the newest online free gaming magazine with a focus, still, on the horrorconspiracyweirdness sphere along with modern, postapocalypse and realism genres. However, the contents of this book delve into mature topics at points, in. Does anyone have it, has anyone played it, can anyone tell me more about it. The trove is a nonprofit website dedicated towards content archival and longterm preservation of rpgs. The trove is the biggest open directory of rpg pdfs on the internet.
Silent legions is different from many existing lovecraftian games in that it is designed as a sandbox toolkit for the game master. As a result of that post, i found out that there is an rpg for cthulhu mythos in. Da archive annex of new links august 30th 2017 new links will be placed here for a while before adding them to da archive. Silent legions is yet another tabletop rpg by sine nomine. Post apocalypse odnd rpg, somewhat like earlier editions of gammaworld silent legions. In 2018, i put together a mangasized zine called thems monsters. Kevin crawford is raising funds for silent legions. Given that purpose, its got to have classes that can map neatly to the osr standards. If you have a game system already you can skip to page 57. Its a great resource, especially for running an openworld horror campaign, and like all sine nomine games, its.
I have a load of pdfs but i find that i still miss holding a book, especially. The first 56 pages is the silent legions game system. While compatible with the stars without number game system and many other classic oldschool games, silent legions is built to stand alone and provide you with everything you need to develop a grim world of. Welcome to the trove the trove is a nonprofit website dedicated towards content archival and longterm preservation of rpgs. Mar 03, 2015 silent legions is a tabletop roleplaying game of modernday lovecraftian horror, one carefully designed to support sandbox adventures by hardbitten investigators and fearless hunters of the dark. Help me make a stars without numbersilent legionsother. While it may have the occasional mention of silent legions rules it is system agnostic. Silent legions can offer a family, or maybe just a group of friends. I have done a lot of work with prepping games but never actually taken it to that next point. The dark times is a free pdf formatted fanzine supporting modern horror and weird roleplaying games rpgs. Mar 30, 2015 silent legions isnt just about traditional yogsothothery. Silent legions is a creation kit, a toolbox in the sine nomine style for creating your own mythos, with allnew deities, alien entities, foul magics, accursed artifacts, unaussprechlichen kulten, and. There is no reason that the content of any game of dread need be any more horrifying than you wish it to be, and therefore dread can be suitable for nearly any age.
Ended up making a copy of it for anyone else whos interested in tracking silent legions stuff. Horror cthulhu product listing rpgnet rpg game index. Ive just now gotten the pdf but the book should arrive in a couple weeks. A couple of days i wrote about my sanity drive dream. This document was uploaded by user and they confirmed. The silent legions art pack is a free collection of 56 blackandwhite line images and one color cover first used in the silent legions lovecraftian horror rpg. Its clean, lightweight oldschool rules are compatible with the free stars without number scifi roleplaying game and give both gm and players a. For those who dont know, silent legions is an amazing osr cthulhu like game.
After all, were all fans of the cthulhu mythos, but once youve seen one invisible blood sucking monster, youve seen all the star vampires. Silent legions, the latest production from kevin crawford of sine nomine publishing, is a modernday horror rpg that does what i previously thought impossible. Kickstarter stars without number, 2nd edition rpg pub. After merciless and unflinching toil, the dark portents of silent legions are nigh unto completion, as is its kickstarter it is an absolute marketing scandal that i have not put this up earlier, but i plead general exhaustion and a nervelessness of my fingers, given the prepwork already invested in the game. Ive just now gotten the pdf but the book should arrive in a couple.
Silent legions 2015 sine nomine publishing edition rpgnet. Silent legions is a game of modernday lovecraftian horror, one designed to. The d20 osr silent legions isnt compatible with the d100 brp coc, at least not without a lot of conversion work. Silent legions is a new horror rpg that emphasizes creating your own mythos of evil gods, cultists, monsters, and artifacts. So, im using a reskinned version of silent legions cult turn for a fantasy hexcrawl, and its different enough from the swn faction turn mechanics that i felt a new sheet was warranted. Entirely new gods, aliens, entities, and other components of a new mythos can be created, plunging the perhapstoofamiliar denizens of the conventional cthulhu mythos into a fresh and satisfying mystery. Silent legions 2015 sine nomine publishing edition.
The zine was a collection of various monsters for the dungeon crawl classics role playing game. Mar 26, 2015 i buy all of his games in print and pdf when they appearstill need to get scarlet heroes, though. In my opinion it stands up withworks by kevin crawford eg. Nov 14, 2019 so like a couple of years ago the silent legions rpg had its kickstarter. Silent legions is a game of modernday lovecraftian horror, one designed to allow courageous investigators and luckless wouldbe victims to strike back against the horrors of an encroaching darkness.
Kickstarter silent legions osr sandboxed modern horror. This is probably one of the most impressive gaming supplements let alone campaign settings that ive ever come across. May 11, 2015 silent legions is a game by kevin crawford, and while i own a few of his games, i have never run one. So like a couple of years ago the silent legions rpg had its kickstarter. P lovecrafts mythos, its more portrayed in that style. Silent legions is a sandbox rpg from kevin crawford that offers gms. As part of the successful kickstarter campaign, i arranged to buy full rights to the art from the original artists, allowing me to release it for free personal and commercial use by other publishers. Its a great resource, especially for running an openworld horror campaign, and like all sine nomine games, its random tables are terrific for brainstorming.
Ive only started skimming things, but those tables. Swns powerhouse strength is its toolcase of goodies for any other scifi game. I have the following sine nomine rpg books in hardcover and pdf. Silent legions is a great place for anyone who can simply relax and be a good sport. If you cant understand why you should support your game, go work at burger king for 2 weeks for no pay and you might get a clue. Anyway, his latest game is silent legions, and its a horror genre rpg that, in classic sine nomine form, demonstrates a toolbox approach to designing your own horror mythos. Silent legions has four investigative character classes with builtin backgrounds and character creation is a simple 15 minute exercise, which is good because characters are as expendable in this horror environment as you might imagine. It has excellent information on how to use the material and the concepts used in different horror. Ended up making a copy of it for anyone else whos interested in tracking silent.
Mar, 2015 silent legions, the latest production from kevin crawford of sine nomine publishing, is a modernday horror rpg that does what i previously thought impossible. We provide content for all aspects of the horror, conspiracy and weird roleplaying genres, and our publication contains material for several game systems. Like call of cthulhu the rpg setting its loosely based on, you really dont want to get into combat as its really deadly, so you dont want to run it like you might run a scifi or fantasy rpg. Traveller style scifi rpg done in an odnd rules set style. Silent legions offers a familyfriendly atmosphere where, as a female gamer, i feel comfortable gaming with people of all ages. Welcome to the dark times fanzine dtf, a direct and spiritual descendant of demonground and protodimension magazines pdm.
I am running a campaign right now and i really like the system and the book. Mar 29, 2020 in 2018, i put together a mangasized zine called thems monsters. Silent legions just skimmed the pdf yesterday seems to be the big book of random table generation for a mythos cults, monsters and. There is an incredibly vast amount of rich and flavorful content. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Get immediate access to the beta pdf and get the full pdf when it is released. Silent legions, the latest production from kevin crawford of sine nomine publishing, is a modernday horror rpg that does what i. Silent legions is a tabletop roleplaying game of modernday lovecraftian horror, one carefully designed to support sandbox adventures by hardbitten investigators and fearless hunters of the dark. Its a horror rpg with a style loosely based on the works of h. Each class starts with a fixed number of hit points 8 for fighters, 6 for. These rpgs are all compatible with each other, as theyre made by the same author. In downfall, you choose a flaw you want to explore and build a unique and irredeemably broken world around it. A lovecraftian horror rpg from the creator of stars without number designed for sandbox play and homebrewed mythos creation. Silent legions is an osr old school renaissance take on cosmic horror.
Spears of the dawn and scarlet heroes are both great games, shipped early and. Scarlet heroes offers four classes the classic fighter, cleric, magicuser, and thief. I read up until the point where it talks about making your own world with the pdf. May 05, 2017 so like a couple of years ago the silent legions rpg had its kickstarter. I do like the easy ones they make the harder ones all the more. Silent legions is a modernday lovecraftian roleplaying game, one built to support a sandbox style of gaming and the creation of your own diabolical mythos. The rest of the book sounds short at 55 pages, but it is packed with goodness. Silent legions is a creation kit, a toolbox in the sine nomine style for creating your own mythos, with allnew deities, alien entities, foul magics, accursed artifacts, unaussprechlichen kulten, and diabolical dreamworlds to bedevil your players. I have a load of pdf s but i find that i still miss holding a book, especially those that i have high hopes for and so i bought the hardcover version of silent legions from drivethrurpg affiliate links are provided throughout this post, and downloaded the pdf. Digging for a dead god wicked dead brewing company. Modern day horror, think coc with an odnd rules set. Sine nomine publishing sandbox gaming for a new age. Silent legions is a game that i would hope gets a lot of play. Stars without number and silent legions and zak smith eg.
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