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Director's Briefing - March 2017
« on: March 05, 2017, 10:22:08 AM »
Welcome

To the seventieth Briefing and the third scheduled Briefing of 2017.

HARP Folkways

We are very pleased to announce the arrival of a new addition to the HARP Fantasy line, namely the wholly new HARP Folkways.

HARP Folkways is not an enhanced edition. It is a brand new shiny book written by Jonathan Cassie (author of HARP Loot which we released last year) and beautifully illustrated by Maria Duffield, Rick Hansen and Raymond Gaustadnes.

HARP Folkways will help you enrich your world by giving you new tools to create believable and unique cultures. Jonathan describes and explains how to apply twenty folkways to design cultures. The folkways cover the range from environment, through kinship, authority, and the supernatural to dress and food. He draws upon examples from our world and from fantasy classics, and presents four full-blown worked examples, including the Orsai from Cyradon, and from Shadow World, the Lydians and Ochu of the Vasai Republic.

HARP Folkways introduces eleven new playable, yet unusual, races. These are the Amarvish minotaurs, the draconian Bentaxa, the avian Faleeka, the Gordaz ratfolk, the Hehn centaurs, the feline Kenra, the amphibious Menomonee, the giant Navrothor of the frozen north, the bestial Queequayth, the gregarious Tomalak, and the Vengha who dwell in the underdeeps. Six new culture packages support the new races.

HARP Folkways introduces ten new professions - Artisan, Athlete, Hunter, Intellectual, Laborer, Sailor, Scoundrel, Seeker, Trader and Valet. As a GM, you can use these professions to represent the ordinary folk of your world. However, all of these have been designed to be balanced with existing HARP Fantasy professions so they have twenty professional skill ranks, level bonuses and appropriate professional talents. They are therefore eminently suitable for characters who have greatness thrust upon them through unexpected circumstances or players seeking a non-magical route that isn't pure combat or stealth. For GMs running high adventure but low magic, these new professions will greatly expand the range of available archetypes.

HARP Folkways also adds over twenty new training packages, new skills and new talents to support the new races and professions.

HARP Folkways is available now in pdf from the OneBookShelf network. The normal price is 15 USD, but we are offering a special one-month introductory discount price of 10 USD.   Follow this link to buy now:

http://www.rpgnow.com/product/206638/HARP-Folkways&affiliate_id=76493

Until next time

We will cover progress on other products in the next scheduled Briefing, which will be in April 2017

Best wishes,
Nicholas

Director, Iron Crown Enterprises Ltd
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Author: Mentalism Companion, GURPS Age of Napoleon, Construct Companion, College of Magics, HARP SF/HARP SF Xtreme

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Re: Director's Briefing - March 2017
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2017, 02:19:18 PM »
How much of Folkways would you say is more system-agnostic than HARP-specific? It sounds like some of it should be usable in other settings.
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Re: Director's Briefing - March 2017
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2017, 02:38:59 PM »
Chapters 1, 2, 3 are rules-agnostic. (pages 4-45)
Chapter 4 talks about Gryx and Gnomes but are rules-free so you can treat them as extended examples (pages 46-64)

Chapter 5 is HARP races. Chapter 6 is HARP Professions, Chapter 7 is HARP Training Packages
(pages 65-104)

Chapter 8 is Cyradon and Shadow World examples - also rules free. (pages 105-119)

The 20 Charts section is rules-free (pages 120 to 129)

Whole book is 132 pages, so 40 pages out of 130 are rules-specific.

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Nicholas
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Re: Director's Briefing - March 2017
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2017, 04:19:25 AM »
Thanks, it sounds useful to people who don't use HARP. You might want to add something to the description about how much is system-agnostic.
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Re: Director's Briefing - March 2017
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2017, 07:23:57 AM »
Thanks, it sounds useful to people who don't use HARP. You might want to add something to the description about how much is system-agnostic.

Good thought! I did the layout and I found it fascinating reading.
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Re: Director's Briefing - March 2017
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2017, 11:02:17 AM »
Folkways is the top seller at RPGNow
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Re: Director's Briefing - March 2017
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2017, 02:52:54 PM »
I bought a pdf copy of Folkways.  Good stuff.  I am going to institute the new professions right away.  The different "Ways" are pretty cool and seem to provide a good background/backdrop for the players and the GM.  Excellent product in my opinion, well worth the ten bucks.   :)
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Re: Director's Briefing - March 2017
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2017, 07:05:09 AM »
And Folkways has gone copper! That was pretty quick.
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Re: Director's Briefing - March 2017
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2017, 08:43:53 PM »
When will Folkways be available in softcover?

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Re: Director's Briefing - March 2017
« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2017, 09:16:27 AM »
Now that we have updated Folkways to cure the errata spotted by our fans and to add in some extra content, Terry has started working on the print masters.

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Nicholas
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Re: Director's Briefing - March 2017
« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2017, 12:51:02 PM »
Print masters have been uploaded into OBS.

Best wishes,
Nicholas
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Re: Director's Briefing - March 2017
« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2017, 02:36:29 PM »
Woot!!
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Re: Director's Briefing - March 2017
« Reply #12 on: March 27, 2017, 12:29:49 PM »
Excellent!  I'm looking forward to being able to get a paper copy.

Print masters have been uploaded into OBS.

Best wishes,
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