Escalation Issue 11 is Available

I'm pleased to announce that Escalation Issue 11 is now available! You can find it on the Vault of the 13th Age. This issue's theme is the Orc Lord and all things orc. Who killed the Orc Lord? What happens to the Dragon Empire after the death of the Orc Lord? Can players create orc characters? These are questions that our community delves into.

This issue’s articles were created during the 13th Age 2E playtest phase, so you’ll notice some authors stuck with the familiar 1st Edition rules and assumptions about orcs while others were inspired by the 2E playtest drafts. We appreciate your patience with this transitionary issue and can’t wait to see what the full release of 2E inspires in the future.

We love to hear feedback, so let us know what you enjoy and would like to see more of in the future. What's missing that you'd like us to include next time? What didn't work so well, and we should consider omitting? This is the community's fanzine, and we want to make it as useful as possible for you.

Thanks again to everyone who made this possible!

Red Moon and Warring Kingdoms Available via PoD

Escalation is proud to announce that Red Moon and Warring Kingdoms is now available to order physical hardcover or softcover copies via print-on-demand. While Escalation is committed to offering fan creations free of charge, DriveThruRPG understandably needs to charge for printing, shipping, and handling. Thus, you'll be charged for the cost of the physical book, but Escalation isn't adding to that cost. Print-on-demand tends to be more expensive than an offset print run, so the price you see is simply the cost for the printed product.

For more information about Red Moon and Warring Kingdoms for 13th Age Glorantha, check out the product announcement for the electronic version of the book.

Many thanks to Patricia Baker, Evan Franke, and the fine folks at Chaosium who helped make this PoD option a reality!

Red Moon and Warring Kingdoms is Now Available

Escalation is proud to announce that Red Moon and Warring Kingdoms is now available on the Jonstown Compendium for free download. Red Moon and Warring Kingdoms is a new sourcebook for 13th Age Glorantha, written by Evan Franke and illustrated by Patricia Baker.

Seeking Lunar Heroes

On a lost and forgotten frontier of the Lunar Empire, the Lunar City-States of Arrolia face an existential threat as the western kingdoms of Fronela descend into war.

The Kingdom of War

After a century of magical isolation, Fronela was taken unaware by the appearance of a bloodthirsty land obsessed with conquest and beholden to one hundred gods of war: the Kingdom of War! Led by Lord Death on a Horse and his consort, the witch Ezdene, city after city has fallen. The great Janube River runs with blood, and the lost Lunar City-States are next!

A SUPPLEMENT FOR 13TH AGE GLORANTHA AND BEYOND

Rob Heinsoo and Jonathan Tweet’s visionary adaptation of 13th Age, the d20-rolling game of heroic fantasy, to Glorantha, receives fan supplement and expansion, adding the first-ever Lunar character classes and magic for the game in an all-new setting beyond Dragon Pass!

Whatever rules system you play, you will find plenty of adventure ideas, maps, setting information, and incredible art for a game set during the era of The Kingdom of War!

Inside this book, you will find:

• Guidelines for creating and running the Lunar heroes of Fronela in 13th Age
• Discussion of the land and kingdoms of Fronela
• Descriptions of the peoples of Fronela, including rules for playing trollkin, elves, dwarfs, and Waertagi, as well as ten new human cultures for 13th Age Glorantha
• Seven Lunar character classes for 13th Age, a Lunar aspirational feat, and a bonus subclass for the Berserker
• Additional background materials, including original maps and a timeline
• New Gloranthan narrative fiction
• And much more!

This supplement requires 13th Age Glorantha, which you can find on the Pelgrane Press store and the Chaosium store.

Articles Needed: In Memoriam: The Orc Lord

Work on Issue 11 is ready to begin, now that we're approaching the finish line for the 13th Age Glorantha book, Red Moon and Warring Kingdoms. With the Dragon Empire now devoid of its slayer of the Wizard King, it's time to celebrate the life of the Orc Lord and all things orc.

Interested in submitting an article? Here are some suggestions that might spark your imagination.

• 13 ways the Dragon Empire was impacted by the death of the Orc Lord.
• How to use orcs in your game, now that the Orc Lord is gone.
• Orc kin for 13th Age 2nd Edition with explanation of just how, exactly, an orc can work as a player character in the Dragon Empire.
• Orc-inspired or anti-orc feats, talents, or powers.
• Random tables to customize orcs that a party encounters.
• Orcish magic items for 13th Age 2nd Edition.
• 13 origin stories of the orcs of the Dragon Empire.

Take a look at the link at the top right corner of the page for submission guidelines and contact information. I look forward to our memorial of the life of the Orc Lord!

Artists: Aaron McConnell and Lee Moyer.

The 13 Vaults site is collecting the 13th Age rules in an easy-to-consume way. They're also working on an online character creator (similar to D&D Beyond for 5e). The site is looking for volunteers to write a New Player's Guide and New Gamemaster's Guide. If that's something you'd be able to help with, please consider contributing to the community. For more information, check out their April Progress Update.

Creative Commons Art for 13th Age Community Icons

The 13th Age Community Icons now have Creative Commons art for their symbols, thanks to Pelgrane Press! Check out this Pelgrane Press blog post for information on where you can download high-quality versions of these images.

Kudos to artist Madison VanDoren for her awesome work. You can find more of Madison's art on ArtStation.

I've already seen discussions about how third party software designers are considering how to incorporate these symbols in their products. Exciting stuff! I hope to see more of this artwork featured in future Escalation articles.

Progress on 13th Age Glorantha Book

It's been a while since I last provided an update to our community, so I wanted to take a moment to let you all know that we're hard at work on our largest project to-date. The Escalation team has partnered with Evan Franke to create a full-length sourcebook for 13th Age Glorantha: Red Moon and Warring Kingdoms. We estimate that the book will weigh in at over 300 pages when it's complete.

Here's a list of the chapters that are currently planned for the book. The chapter titles may still change, but they should give you a sense of what you can expect.

1. Introduction
2. A Life of Adventure in Fronela
3. Peoples of Fronela (including new player kin)
4. Ruled by the Moon: Adventuring and the Lunar Cycle
5. Classes and Cults of Lunar Arrolia
6. The Seven Mothers
7. Sources and Resources
8. Appendices

We hope that the 13th Age fan community are as excited by this project as we are. We appreciate your patience as we try something at a scale we've never attempted before.