I love how these copies turned out and I'll be making it live soon.
I love all the great DIY products coming out for this.
I don't know or have them all, but there is the White Star Catalog that has most of them released as of November.
I have not tried to be 100% compatible with anything other than White Star, but I have also kept it open enough that you can drop the Aquarian Sisters into most games. The galaxy should be big, and weird.
For example I have no idea if my Aquarian Sisters work well with the Star Sailors of Star Sailors: The Magical Girl Supplement for White Star RPG.
On that note though, Sisters of the Aquarian Order is 100% Open OGC. So if you want to use the Aquarian or Capricorn Sisters in your product? By all means go right ahead. You don't even need to ask me. But if you do let me know! I'd like to see what they do in the hands of other gamers.
So what are your favorite White Star products? Sell me on your favorite!
Today's new releases take us back to the worlds that were the cradle of D&D.
Dave Arneson's supplement to Original D&D is now out (again). Blackmoor gave us the first ready to run adventure published by TSR, Temple of the Frog, the Monk and Assassin classes and the often forgotten D&D to hit location system.
In later editions of the game Blackmoor would appear in both the World of Greyhawk and the Known World of Mystara.
The D&D Gazetteer for 3e came out as soon as 3e did and established that Greyhawk as the default world for D&D 3. It was quickly eclipsed by the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, but both had really nice poster sized maps.
Started off by guest posting over at Angry Hamster Publishing, home of the fantastic new game WITCH: Fated Souls. I posted my top 5 witches. Have some you like? Post them there!
I also played a LOT of Pathfinder Deluxe Munchkin this weekend. Didn't win a single game, but I still enjoyed it.
I hung out with +Vincent Florio and +Erik Tenkar of the eponymous Tavern while we talked about social media, blogs and boards, Pay to Play DMs and Kickstarters. I'll post a link when that is live.
In other news the proofs of "The Sisters of the Aquarian Order" are on the way. That should be going live soon.
The Sisters of the Aquarian Order are full of idea I have had for a number of years. Some of those ideas have come from the music I listened too while conceptualizing it and other from music I listened to while writing it.
So here is a brief selection of songs that get me in the mood to write and play.
First up is a favorite of mine, but a newer song. The Sword know how to do witchy imagery well. The protagonist of this song, "The Veil of Isis" is an Aquarian Sister if I ever saw one.
A lot in this book is what I like to think of as "left-over hippie shit". The 70s were a heady brew of occultism, psuedo-science, emerging technology and science fiction. If that was the stew that fed my creativity then this is the broth. The 5th Dimension recorded "Age of Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In" in 1969. It featured prominently on the soundtrack for the musical Hair. I never liked Hair, but this song I always kind of enjoyed.
True fact. I love Psychedelic Rock, especially if it is in that sweet spot between 1968 and 1977. If sounds like the band took a lot of drugs and traveled in space then I am there. The Amboy Dukes really only had one hit, "Journey to the Centre of the Mind". But it is exactly the sort of thing I enjoy.
Slightly earlier, but no less awesome, was Procol Harum. "Whiter Shade of Pale" is just one of the songs that seems to call out to me from some great distance of time and space that I can't quite transverse. An echo of something I should have heard, but have no idea what it was and only have the memories. I think it is the Hammond organ to be honest.
On the other side is 1979's "Children of the Sun" by Billy Thorpe. It is almost so corny and campy that you would assume it was a parody song, but Thorpe meant it in all earnestness. From the album of the same name it was one of his biggest hits in the US. I can honestly say this. The seeds of the Aquarian Order are here. I remember the summer of 79, I was out riding my bike and I heard this song and thought about a group of Space Wizards. Interestingly enough the album was released by Capricorn Records.
Even getting further away, but still close enough to matter to me, is April Wine's "Sign of the Gypsy Queen". Something about this song really gets to me.
If Stevie Nicks is an archetypical witch then Grace Slick is an archetypical Aquarian Sister. I have had a long and complicated relationship with Jefferson Airplane/Starship. "Winds of Change" hits a lot metaphorical notes for me. From 1983 it fits into my timeline for solid D&D/Chill game playing.
"Sleeping, not yet dead."
