Silver Branch Games

Welcome! This is the website of Silver Branch Games, a small independent publisher of tabletop roleplaying games.

Website update

31/3/09 - Apologies if you had any trouble finding the site in the last day or so. I've just moved it to a new host. Hopefully there won't be too many glitches.

Jaws of the Six Serpents released

Cover of upcoming 'Jaws of the Six Serpents', with art by Storn Cook 22/3/09 - The newest product from Silver Branch Games takes the fan-favourite PDQ system into the realms of sword-and-sorcery and the darker sides of fantasy.

The book contains:

The PDQ core rules
Additional rules for these genres of fantasy
Setting outline for the land of the Six Serpents
Notes on adapting for different settings

It's written and designed by Tim Gray, author of Questers of the Middle Realms and Legends Walk - Truth & Justice Edition.

Jaws is 132 pages long in 6x9in format. It's available in PDF from Indie Press Revolution, RPGNow and DriveThruRPG, and in print from IPR and Lulu.

Further information at www.silverbranch.co.uk.

Whistlestop Guide to Herbs

8/11/08 - Have just released this new mini-product. It's a rapid 18-page tour of real European plants that are noteworthy for their real or claimed medicinal, practical or magical properties, from agrimony to yarrow.

There's almost 50 plants in there, most with line drawings. It's non-game-specific, intended for use as inspiration and reference. Check out a preview.

Available now for $2.95 at Your Games Now and RPGNow.

Update

6/8/08 -Yes, I'm still here! Gaming stuff has been taking a back seat to other things. The main development to report is that the draft of Jaws of the Six Serpents is currently being picked over by a select group of steely-thewed feedback folk. Comments so far have been encouraging, so I hope to get it out fairly soon.

(Jaws is a sword-and-sorcery style fantasy game using the PDQ system, aiming to be self-contained in a small volume. It has the PDQ rules adapted for worlds towards the pulpy/gritty end of fantasy, and a setting outline for the world of the Six Serpents. It's in 6x9in format, and looking like 120 pages.)

After that, my next main project will be the long overdue Albion - Reforged Edition. (Albion is my Celtic-themed fantasy game. The Player's Book was released in PDF some time ago, but there's other important material to reveal and a lot of improvements in presentation that I can now make.) There might be other small projects along the way, but I've nothing firm in mind right now.

Truth & Justice: More Power

24/3/08 - I've just released a short supplement to Truth & Justice, the PDQ superhero game from Atomic Sock Monkey Press. Entitled More Power, it's a resource for creating powers in any T&J game, building on my experience of converting my Legends Walk setting.

A few short optional rules ideas.
Mini-articles about the versatility of Super Scale and Vulnerabilities, size levels and themed powers.
Over 40 power write-ups - some familiar, some widely applicable and some just a little bit quirky.

It's a 24-page PDF, price $3.95, available from Your Games Now, RPGNow and DriveThru and arriving shortly at Indie Press Revolution.

The Arsenal of Heaven

23/3/08 - I'm pleased to announce that this is now out! When it started it was going to be a quick and simple project: well, we all know what happens to those.

The Arsenal of Heaven cover It's a new entry in the NUGGETS series, based around the same very short basic rules. The premise is that modern people somehow acquire the power items of ancient mythic figures - Thor's hammer, Monkey's wishing staff, the sandals of Hermes and so on - and get entangled in conflicts with shape-twisted "demons" from outside our world as well as other obstacles both magical and mundane. Arsenal is written as a framework - it can be run in lots of different styles, from young people taking on an atmospheric and scary world they never suspected to higher-powered anime-style monster hunters.