Silvervine News

Posted by John Arcadian on Aug 5th, 2010 in Convention News | Comments Off on SVG @ Gencon & Con On The Cob

Hey Silvervine Fans! Here is a quick blurb of convention news for you. Matt Solomon and John Arcadian will be at Gencon on Saturday and Sunday. They will be Utilikilted and wandering around. If you want to say hi, find them at the Eureka Seminar (John is on the panel) at 10 am on Saturday in the Marriott : Santa Fe room. Con On The Cob is fast approaching, and this is going to be a good one. We’ve just about finished our convention schedule, which will include one seminar on using Cinematics, Thematics, and Shared Narrative in your game. The...

Posted by John Arcadian on Jul 22nd, 2010 in News | Comments Off on Final Tweaks

Well, final writing is finished and design is well underway. We’ve found a few great editors and people to do some cleanup work, so things are progressing along nicely. I've just finished updating a few things in the chapter 3 character creation section. Two races from the monsters section got moved up and expanded. Firstly, Mechanist Automata in all their diversity got a more detailed writeup. Another race, the Zasheri got added. The Zasheri are an alien race whose home world was destroyed by the "Dark Fire From The Sky". They stepped into...

Posted by John Arcadian on Jul 7th, 2010 in Idle | Comments Off on In sight . . .

7 pages left, 3 of them are being written by Jason Novak (our new freelance writer) right now. That leaves 4 to go, and 2 of those (Cirro) just need a re-write. I find this hard to fathom . . . - JA

Posted by John Arcadian on Jun 21st, 2010 in News | Comments Off on The Stars Are Almost Right… For Origins

but they will be soon! Just 2 more days until Origins Games Fair starts and 3 more days until Silvervine arrives and starts running games. We’ve got some great stuff going on and the prizes this year are going to be excellent. The winner of the Reisja Stones Tournament on Saturday night gets their NPC featured in an upcoming Silvervine adventure. THU 4:00 PM – 2 hours – Character Creation & Demo THU 6:00 PM – 2 hours – Character Creation & Demo THU 6:00 PM – 4 hours – Riesja Stones – Sky Raid Rescue THU 8:00 PM – 4 hours – Riesja Stones –...

Posted by John Arcadian on Jun 19th, 2010 in News | Comments Off on Free RPG Day!

Today is Free RPG Day! A day when various companies donate or give away quickstarts and freesamples of their RPGs. While Silvervine doesn’t have anything NEW to give away today, you can always find the Quick Character Creation Guide (more than enough info to build a fully usable Silvervine Character) in our downloads section. SVG Free Quick Character Creation Guide Go check out the Free RPG Day retail locator and get yourself some new stuff!

Posted by John Arcadian on Jun 10th, 2010 in News | Comments Off on The Silvervine Games Schedule of Games @ Origins

For all you wonderful people who are attending the Origins Game Fair this year, here is Silvervine’s schedule of games. If Ancon was any indication of how fun the games we setup this year are, Origins is going to be a blast. The picture to the right is of the beta model we created for the Pandgaarum Tournament at Ancon. It will be running Saturday evening at Origins and the model is being painted and embellished, so it should look a lot better before it hits the table on Saturday. THU 4:00 PM – 2 hours - Character Creation & Demo THU 6:00 PM...

Posted by John Arcadian on Jun 1st, 2010 in News | Comments Off on Origins Ho! and OGTv2 Ads

Well, we just finished registering for our Origins badges. Woot! This year should be a really fun time, especially if our games at Ancon were any indicator. Also, check out some of our ads that will be appearing in Open Game Table Anthology Version 2. This is one of the interior ads that will fit in a column in a section of blogs all about making awesome characters. Appropriate placement for a Silvervine ad, don’t ya think? The full page ad comes after the jump.

Posted by John Arcadian on May 23rd, 2010 in News | 2 comments

We had an AWESOME time at Ancon 2010. The convention was awesome beyond awesome. There were so many incredible moments. Special thanks to everyone who participated in the Reisja Stones tournament: Amber, Ben, Brian, Ian, Larry, and Mark. You guys made it incredible and your added storyline was awesome!!!!!!! Check out our pictures on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/silvervinegames

Posted by John Arcadian on May 12th, 2010 in Convention News | Comments Off on Silvervine Playtest Sunday

Hey all NE Ohio SVG Fans (or anyone wanting to travel farther)! Want to get a taste of what Silvervine is offering up for the 2010 convention season? With Ancon 8 days away, we are going to be doing some practice runs for 4 of our adventures this Sunday at the Silvervine Offices. If you live near Akron Ohio and would like to get in on some pre-convention games, you are invited. We’ll be running games at 2pm and 7pm on Sunday May 16th. In order to get involved, register by emailing playtest [@] silvervinegames.com and we will send you more...

Posted by John Arcadian on May 10th, 2010 in Sneak Peak | Comments Off on The Long Road To Cyrus

One of the biggest sticking points for completing the Silvervine Core Rulebook has been finishing the writing on the world of Cyrus. Cyrus was the reason that Silvervine got started in the first place, and it has always been Matt’s baby. Since I was tasked with writing it up as an RPG game world instead of a world that was the backdrop to his in-progress novel, I’ve always had an odd relationship with it. On one hand, Matt isn’t your typical gamer and had lots of unique ideas for the world. Back in those days I hadn’t been exposed to a lot of...