Kickstarter: No Soul Left Behind

If Hebanon Games has been quiet for awhile, it's because I've been on an employment rollercoaster for the last six months. I've got a new teaching contract for this upcoming year, so after some initial adjustment time, things should be returning to the same production schedule that got No Security out the door. Maybe next up will be Red Markets, or maybe I'll pick another freelancing job at GenCon, but I should be financially stable enough to begin creating with some regularity soon.

I'm eternally grateful to the RPG companies that shoved some work my way during these rough times. Posthuman, as always, is great to work with. The main brunt of my writing force has gone behind a project for Arc Dream called No Soul Left Behind.

NSLB is the first campaign and sourcebook for Greg Stolze's Better Angels. The system setting is a world where supervillains get their power from being possessed by demons. In order to appease the little bastards, players have to perpetrate acts of evil. Go TOO evil, and your soul gets dragged to hell. But if you do acts of meaningless, hollow villainy -- like carving your name in the moon or ransoming a monument -- you keep the demon in check and get to enjoy your superpowers a bit longer by wallowing in the moral grey area.

No Soul Left Behind takes this premise and moves it into an inner-city charter high school. Not only do the players have to figure out the mystery of their powers, they have to appease their hellspawn while trying to keep their struggling community alive. It's my 200+ page magnum opus on educational policy reform, moral conundrums, and absurd social satire.

You can listen to AP's of the whole campaign over at my ever-loyal partner RPPR. The book is crowd-funding on Kickstarter currently, and I'd really appreciate any support the fans of Hebanon could provide. In addition to, you know, helping the thing actually exist and enabling me to get paid, I think the book is easily the best thing I've ever written. It's a campaign quite unlike any other and works with a great game system everyone should try. I'd really love to see it get out into the world and find an audience, so any help y'all could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time. Expect my report from GenCon soon!

Eclipse Phase: The Devotees

Hebanon Games isn't dead, despite what this blog might otherwise indicate. I've been very busy doing some freelancing work, trying to find a new day job, and picking away at Red Markets over the past few months. One of the results of all that quite time on the blog is The Devotees, the latest scenario from Eclipse Phase. The guys over at Posthuman Studios were nice enough to let me write for them based on the strength of the Know Evil campaign over at RPPR, and they were nicer still when they allowed me to turn in a draft nearly two times longer than what they wanted :-P. It went out to KS backers a few weeks ago, but the print and PDF bundle is now available. That's 27 glossy color pages and a mini-campaign's worth of gaming for $10!

The Devotees deals with the shadier side of Firewall as agents are tasked with investigating an X-threat on Legba, the heart of the ego trafficking syndicate Nine Lives. It makes for two-to-three nights of gaming full of transhuman espionage, voodoo, and existential horror. Give it a read and let me know what you think in the comments. Better yet, write a review for DTRPG!

Hopefully, I'll have more to post soon about the fruits of my long blogging absence. Thanks for following us here at Hebanon and stay tuned.

Print Version Available!

The day has finally come! No Security is available for POD!

A full color version just chock-full of Ean's beautiful artwork is available at DTRPG for $20.00

For those that like to keep it simple, a B+W version is available from CreateSpace $15.99. Since they piggyback off the Amazon system, shipping should be better for international customers than the color version.

The Amazon version of the B+W book should be searchable on their website in 5-7 days, so use those gift cards from Christmas, if you got them.

Regardless of the method, you get a copy of all five of the core scenarios in your hand. And I get to knock an accomplishment off my bucket list to boot!

Thank you for supporting Hebanon Games this far. We really hope you enjoy the book.

Happy horror gaming!