07 May Ulisses Worlds Ep2 with Ross Watson

Today was our second episode of Ulisses Worlds, a news show about all things Ulisses. Timothy Brown our Studio Director and Robert Adducci our Community and Social Media Manager talk about what we’ve been up to and where we’re headed in the future.

You can watch the show live on Thursdays at 2pm Pacific on Twitch. Then video on demand on Youtube.

Episode 2 Ross Watson: 

Chat Topics: 

• Stay at Home and Play in the time of COVID-19.  

• • • This is the last week to get the Dark Eye as PWYW, so be sure to grab them before the weekend ends! 
  • Watch out next week for a new Stay at Home and Play announcement! 

• Conventions 

• • Origins has been delayed until later in the year October 7-11, but they’re throwing Origins Online June 19-21st. If you’re interested in running any of our games please send us an email to Contact@ulisses-spiele.com

• • • https://www.originsgamefair.com/event-submission 

• • TableTop Events Con of Champions May 23-25th. We’re offering PDFs of some of our games to all participants and even more for those who run our games. Registration for games is open https://tabletop.events/conventions/con-of-champions 

The Dark Eye: 

• • The Magic of Aventuria physical products are in the warehouse and are for sale on the Ulisses website at Ulisses-us.com. 
  • You can also get the PDFs at DriveThruRPG.com 

• Stay At Home and Play the Dark Eye: http://ulisses-us.com/stay-home-and-play-the-dark-eye/ 

• • This is the last week to get the Dark Eye as PWYW, so be sure to grab them before the weekend ends! 

• • Play it Forward campaign: Through May 17th all Scriptorium Aventuris creators get 100% royalty rate on DriveThruRPG and all products are 20% off! OBS and Ulisses have given up their percentage to give to the creators.  

• We touched on Book of Heroes CRPG last week, but here are more details, 

• • • 12 playable professions, directly taken from The Dark Eye 
  • • 4 playable species out of The Dark Eye 
  • • Varied quests and tasks 
  • • Singleplayer or coop game 
  • •  Extensive character creation possibilities 
  • •  Char creation and char development using Inrah card sets! 
  • •  Hand-painted graphics made from famous artists within the The Dark Eye universe 
  • •  Exciting solo stories 
  • •  A plethora of well-known places, characters and enemies from the The Dark Eye universe 
  • 10 pages of a Book of Heroes Comic
• Streams 
  • • • Vampire of Havena & Conspiracy of Mages playthroughs are available on Youtube 
    • • Fantasy Grounds TDE Extension walkthrough, is on Youtube 
    • Character Creation sessions, made a Middenrealmer Mercenary Skirmisher, From the grab-bag livestream on M/W/F at 11am Pacific. 

Fading Suns:  

• • If you’re a backer there is an update with the PDF manuscripts for review. 

• Admiral Nelson, a fan on Discord was given an early view of the character sheet for Roll20! 

• • • Roll20 Wiki page: https://wiki.roll20.net/Fading_Suns_4th_Edition:_Pax_Alexius could be considered the closest thing to it.(edited) 
  • All people have to do is to create a game (https://app.roll20.net/campaigns/new/) and select “Fading Suns 4th Edition: Pax Alexius” from within the list of available sheets. 

• Print Friendly Character sheet at Ulisses-us.com/download 

Streams 

• • Tonight is the Finale of the Annals of Antioch stream! Join GM JM Defoggi and his crew at 5:30pm Pacific time on Twitch. 

• Bill Bridges and Andrew Greenberg continued their Heretical Musings show on Tuesday at 2pm pacific and it will continue every 2 weeks.  

Aventuria 

• • We have the full complement of Aventuria products on our store at Ulisses-us.com. The core-set and all the expansions.
  • There is a Tabletop Simulator Mod for Aventuria for free.

• Streams 
  • • On Saturday’s we’ve been uploading videos of Eric Simon playing solo adventures. Check them out on Saturdays at 11am pacific! This week he tackles Tears of Fire on Saturday at 11am pacific! 

Myth: Dawn of Heroes 

• • A fan Grimzin has made a great Tabletop Simulator mod for Classic Myth. You can check that out in the mods section for TTS on Steam. 

• Streams 

• • There is a Myth Q&A up: https://youtu.be/OvjsFpmX8a4 

Torg Eternity:  

• • • All of the Aysle products are now available for purchase on the Ulisses website at Ulisses-us.com .

• • The Cyberpapcy files are in the hands of our German counterparts who are doing final layout touches before we release those to backers. 

• • The next Torg crowdfunding is Tharkold, the dates are still nebulous but we’re looking at the next couple of months. 

• • After that, later in the year or early next year we’ll head to Orrorsh! 

• • First novel finished and in editing, The Maelstrom Bridge, part of THarkold Crowdfunding 

• Updated form fillable character sheet is available in the downloads section

Streams 

• • New stream, The Four Horsemen Every Tuesday at 5:30 Pacific on Twitch followed up by upload to Youtube. You can get Session 0 and 1 out now. 

• Robert did a walkthrough of Torg Eternity: Aysle pdfs and after a Twitter poll decided on some Living Land pdfs as well. 

People really wanted to hear from Ross on that stream, we didn’t have him then…but we have him now! 

Ross Introduction/ Myth: Tales of Legend: 

• • Introduce Ross as the Lead Designer on Torg Eternity Living Land, Myth Tales of Legend, Wrath & Glory and designer: Torg Eternity. And he’s part of the Torg Eternity Four Horsemen stream on Tuesday at 5:30 pacific. 

• Ross, tell us about working on the Living Land. 

• • The very first thing created for Torg Eternity! 

• Ross, what is Myth: Tales of Legend 

• • What sort of game mechanics does it use? 

• Who’s involved? 

• WHat updates about Myth Tales of Legend do you have?  

• What kind of timeframe are you looking at for the KS? 

• Streams 

• • Ross and JM are hosting a Campfire Chat every Thursday at 11am pacific, where they talk about all aspects of the game. They alternate, one week it’s rules and mechanics the next it’s story and setting topics. This week, just earlier today was about the Bright Legion.