Brotherhood: Faction Specialisations

Last time on our faction system walkthrough, we showed you what the Wealth Skill can do and how you can dip into that collective fund in game. This time we’re showing off faction specialisations, which is all about using your faction and faction members in game. From Skills to Specialisations Much like with characters in […]

Faction Skills: Wealth

Last time on our faction system walkthrough, we showed you what the Might Skill can do and how you can use your faction members to help you in game. This time we’re showing off the last of the faction Skills, the Wealth Skill. Wealth When we walked you through faction generation and building your faction’s […]

Gates Sample World

Today we’re taking a peek again at Gates, the upcoming game from Stormforge West. So without further ado, here’s James: ———- There will be four sample worlds in the final product of Gates. To show you what sort of worlds you can expect here is a taste of one of them. This world is meant […]

Faction Skills: Might

Last time on our faction system walkthrough, we showed you what the Treachery Skill can do and what Treachery Events are. This time we’re showing off the Might Skill. Might The first thing that Might does for your faction is say how many members your factions starts off with. When you generate a faction, take […]

Faction Skills: Treachery

First things first: we got ourselves a mod symbol! The chains that bind a faction together! This will be the symbol on the cover of the faction system mod that we are calling Brotherhood for now. Now onto the main post: Last time on our faction system walkthrough, we showed you what the Notoriety Skill […]

Faction Skills: Notoriety

Last time on our Faction System walkthrough, we introduced you to the five main Faction Skills and showed you what the Reputation Skill can do. This time we’re showing off Reputation’s evil brother: the Notoriety Skill Notoriety If Reputation is “fame”, then Notoriety is “infamy”. Notoriety doesn’t show off to the world how good your […]

Faction Skills

Last time on our Faction System walkthrough, we gave your faction a home by showing you how to build your base. This time we’re going to start delving into the gameplay of factions by looking at their Skills. The Five Faction Skills As the heading says, each faction has five main Skills that it, the […]

Faction Base Building

Last time on our Faction System walkthrough, we finished up the faction generation with some final touch ups and turned a bunch of random roll tables into a believable faction. This time we’re going to give your faction a home by building it a base. The Wealth Skill We’ll be going over faction skills and […]

Faction Creation: Final Touches

Last time on our Faction System walkthrough, we showed you how to give your faction a history and a past, and fill that with significant events that really give your faction character This time we’re going close off the faction generation by doing a few touch ups and then seeing the final result. Allies and […]

Faction Histories

Last time on our Faction System walkthrough, we showed you how to give your faction a unique quirk and discovered what your faction offers new recruits This time we’re going to delve deep into your faction’s past and give it a history to give it past that feels believable and makes your faction relatable. Reconstructing […]

Faction Oddities and Recruitment

Last time on our Faction System walkthrough, we showed you how to start off making your own unique faction. This time we’re showing you two tables to roll on that will make your faction even more unique, but is also chiefly geared to how your faction will present itself to the world. Oddities We’re all […]

Gates Character Creation Example

Stormforge West is hard at work on Gates (see the introduction here), and today we can show you an example of how character creation works in Gates. So take it away James! One of the key aspects of Gates is its character customization. Nearly any type of character can be made in Gates. To showcase […]

Making a faction your own

Last time on our Faction System walkthrough, we showed you a name generator to give your soon-to-be faction a unique name. This time we are showing you three tables to roll on to find out what who your faction is and what they do. Between these three tables, your faction will be unique and yours […]

Introduction to Gates

While I’m busy tinkering away at the Faction mod for the Sigil System, Stormforge West has been working hard on their next game after Haunt. It’s amazing, it’s called Gates, and here is James from Stormforge West to tell you all about it: For the past 4 years, I have been developing a roleplaying game […]

Start of the Faction System

Last time we showed you the results of the vote for what we should do next, and that is the Faction system. We’ve already started working on the Faction Generator which will make up a large chunk of the mod, and in the next few weeks we’ll take you through it step-by-step so you can […]