So, what the heck is this?

While I have abandoned development on Together We Grow, and Lotus Eater has been on an extremely LONG hiatus (I do plan to get back to it, but it's going to go through a ground-up redesign), I am developing something new. Something, hopefully, much simpler. I need to get back to design work and Lonvictus is my foot back in the door.

I do have a couple of other projects planned for later this year, but I am tired of being stuck in limbo with nothing to get me out of bed in the morning. I need something to care about doing today, tomorrow. That's what I'm doing with Lonvictus.

Inspired, as Cavehaven was, by Chris Bisette's Reivdene, Upon the Moss, and intended to be compatible with the Mörk Borg ruleset, Lonvictus, Land of Lost Souls will both a dark fantasy campaign setting and game, but with unique character advancement mechanics based on your starting equipment as well as equipment you gather throughout play. Each piece of equipment will have a number of Skills or Abilities attached to it and you'll pick one from a piece of your starting equipment to begin play with and pick another every time you "gain a level." What triggers your character to advance will be much the same as in Mörk Borg.

The rules are very simple, the setting is mostly coherent in my head, I'll just need to draw up a map (which I'm fairly adept at), and put together a very minimalist layout, and set players and Gamemasters on their way. There will not be a starter quest as there is in the Mörk Borg book; however, another designer flourish of mine will replace that with basically a number of starting hooks to get the players into the world, I'm thinking 6, that you randomly roll immediately after character creation, intended to just get you all straight to it.

I'll be trying to update this once a day with about a page (a small page) of content every day, or at least once a week, and the price will start at FREE, but increase as I really start to add the meat and potatoes and the bells and whistles. If this sounds interesting to you, please do check it out now for free, because if you download now, you'll still get the entire document, however long (or in whichever state of completion) it ends up being!