Three Sails Studios
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TTRPG design and publishing. Making Better Worlds Since 2024. Mappa Mundi + Gallows Corner + City of Espers + More, all here:
MAPPA MUNDI - AN EXPLORATION + ECOLOGY RPG is now back in stock over at @ipr.bsky.social. You can get your copy there, or from us, or from a number of retailers in the US.
Finished: The Giant Dark by Sarvat Hasin. Starting: Children of Memory by @aptshadow.bsky.social
The House of Spyglass are also one of my (George) favourites, too. Plus, her card deck artwork is iiiiincredible!
Just finished: Children of Ruin by @aptshadow.bsky.social Now starting: The Giant Dark by Sarvat Hasin
Just finished: The Comfort of Distant Stars by I O Echeruo. Just starting: Children of Ruin by @aptshadow.bsky.social
Perfect time for Nathan to be posting this, as I had a sample of the custom City of Espers card deck arrive in the post just this morning! If you're not following City of Espers on Backerkit, get on it! :)
Spotted in its natural habitat: the Domestic Nesting Beagle.
Official Three Sails entry for the Best Art of a Dog SPENNIE. My boy features in both Mappa Mundi and Gallows Corner. He'll be fine with just a nomination, tbh. He ain't fussy.
Featuring four new Regions, each with a new Monster and three new Creatures, plus new Journey Cards to help you visit and explore aquatic environments, PLUS a new character Licence, the Mariner, Mappa Mundi: Islands and Oceans will take you beyond the coasts of Evasu out into the wider world.
At the start of each session, you draw five cards. These cards are your opportunities, the risks you take, the bad ideas you definitely won’t make, right? When the GM calls for a check, you choose a card to play against the target number, and you might add one of your attributes to the value!
We’ve talked about the narrative side of City of Espers. Now it's time we explored the resolution mechanics! There’s no dice in this game. Just a deck of cards, the luck of the draw, and the choices you make to try and succeed. And did we mention Espers will come with its own custom card deck?
PLEASE SHARE! Calling all journalists, reviewers, YouTubers, bloggers, content creators, and anyone who covers TTRPGs! WE WANT YOU (to contact us about covering CITY OF ESPERS by @theneoncaster.bsky.social)! Found families, psychic powers, queer experiences, a sentient city sound like your jam?
'So, George, Gallows Corner is finished now, and delivered / on its way to all backers. What's the next project you're going to be working on? Just a hint, perhaps?' This. But reverse the sentience and who is living and who is dead. And then make them read the news. #Drift #HangedFromTheGallows
Androgynous android and late night DJ Nathan Blades, here to tell you about Zener City. It’s a perfectly polished pitch for City of Espers from @theneoncaster.bsky.social r, let him introduce what this upcoming game is all about, in his own words! Follow City of Espers here: tinyurl.com/ynrc6e3d
These were supposed to show up before UKGE. They turned up yesterday afternoon. They'll serve other purposes, though, and it's great to feel the weight and hefty of the book at a nearly complete page count! Follow City of Espers on Backerkit: tinyurl.com/ynrc6e3d
GALLOWS CORNER has started shipping to UK, EU, and non-US Rest of the World backers! Stock arrived at our UK warehouse this morning and started shipping almost immediately. In the meantime, our US stock is waiting to be loaded into a ship before heading the the US! Get excited!
Here are the four Turf spreads for the four 'major' Houses featured in the book: Constellation Cord (House of Starfall); Eye in the Sky (House of Oracle); Nada to Vada (House of Fantabulosa); and Singularity Sector (House of Hyperion). Each one lovingly drawn by Shane Melisse.
I got to write two Turf entries in the City of Espers rulebook: Open City, the Turf of the House of Barricade (can you smell roses and gunpowder? It's near!) and Joyous Gard, the Turf of the House of Avalon. Let's dive into the latter. Here it is in the book, complete with text.
You know when a TTRPG has a mechanic you'll ride or die for? That thing that you will always tell people about? The thing that makes that game THAT game? For me, @theneoncaster.bsky.social made one for City of Espers. It's the main thing that made me want us to publish it. Let's talk Turf!
But you don’t have to use one of the Houses in the game book, one of the best bits of the game is creating your own House and Turf. What sort of House do you reckon you’d bring to Zener city? Don't forget to pre-save the Backerkit: tinyurl.com/ynrc6e3d
When a House has forged a strong enough connection, they may develop Turf, a psychic awakening of the city with its own personality & powers. Fantabulosa's Turf is small, just a few blocks from the theatre where people on the run from something supernaturally find their way onto its streets.
Houses have pre-existing characters to bring into your games, and Fantabulosa is no different! The contortionist Ducky, the magician Riah and the right hand ma’am Doreen make up some of the Espers found here. And perhaps most importantly is Bijou, Mr Measures son who is set to take over soon!
The House of Fantabulosa put on vibrant and saucy shows, thanks to their decades of musical, burlesque and circus skills. Led by the Pearly King, Mr Measures, this musical hall impresario started Fantabulosa to provide a safe haven from the prejudices elsewhere in Zener and beyond.
In CITY OF ESPERS, your characters are part of a House, a group of bonded Espers who work together! Some have existed for years, others are brand new and just developing! Let’s take a closer look at one of these as an example, the House of Fantabulosa. Pre-save the Backerkit: tinyurl.com/ynrc6e3d
So far we've let @theneoncaster.bsky.social have all the fun with the CITY OF ESPERS reveals. Time we get in on the psychic-powered urban action! Let's start with some of my favourite characters, beginning with Ms. Cherry Sunday, corporate maven and all round bad egg. FOLLOW: tinyurl.com/ynrc6e3d
GALLOWS CORNER is hitting the road! Printing has finished and freight shipping is about to begin. We're closing Backerkit preorders in 48 hours time, so if you want a copy in the first wave, now's the time! Preorder here: gallowscornerrpg.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
Backed as hell. Received as hell. Mad as hell. But not at @soulmuppet.co.uk nor @eviemoriarty.bsky.social, because this looks sick (as hell)!
Are you at PAX East? We're not, but MAPPA MUNDI - AN EXPLORATION + ECOLOGY RPG is! Head over to Pandemonium Books and Games at Booth 12109 and get your copy. It's a real beauty, promise. Thanks to @ipr.bsky.social for making the connection!
Quite the post day today! Aegean: Isle of Pelops by @stoogoff.com, Royal Blood by @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social (sent by @shop.peregrinecoast.press) and The Thunder Perfect Mind by @floaker.bsky.social!
For each new game, I try to do something stylistic that I haven't done before. In Gallows Corner, one of those things was random tables and NPC generators. We didn't have any in Mappa Mundi, and I was dead set on having them here. Some favourites! Back Gallows Corner today! shorturl.at/km3rm