Escalation! A 13th Age Fanzine
Thursday, April 13, 2023
Thursday, March 9, 2023
Creative Commons Art for 13th Age Community Icons
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.
Thursday, February 9, 2023
Progress on 13th Age Glorantha Book
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.
- Introduction
- A Life of Adventure in Fronela
- Peoples of Fronela (including new player kin)
- Ruled by the Moon: Adventuring and the Lunar Cycle
- Classes and Cults of Lunar Arrolia
- The Seven Mothers
- Sources and Resources
- Appendices
Monday, August 1, 2022
Escalation Issue 10 is Available
Saturday, April 16, 2022
Show Demiplane Your Support for 13th Age Nexus
If that's something you'd be interested in, please add to this thread on the Demiplane forums.
Saturday, September 18, 2021
13th Age Official Variant Rules Collection
Over the years, 13th Age has accumulated variant rules that the designers have shared with us. This page attempts to collect the variant rules in one place, summarizing each rule and providing a reference to the original source.
- Alternative Ability Score Array—Use this ability score array, which is better than the point-buy would allow, but on the bottom end: 17, 15, 14, 13, 12, 10. Source: 13th Age Glorantha p. 24.
- Force Salvo—Replace the adventurer tier feat with one that requires the wizard target each enemy only once. There are some other options offered as well. Source: 13th Age FAQ.
- Grabbed—When you're grabbed, the monster deals automatic damage to you as a free action equal to half the original damage of the grab attack. If you try to make a ranged attack while grabbed, you're subject to an opportunity attack. Source: 13th Age Glorantha p. 66.
- Icon advantages—When rolling icon relationships, treat both 5's and 6's as advantages. When a you use an icon advantage, roll a d20. On a 1–5, the advantage comes with a complication (the equivalent of a 5 in the core rulebook). Source: 13th Age Quick Start Rules p. 11.
- Incremental Advance—You may only take one new power or spell as an incremental advance per level. Source: 13th Age Glorantha p. 74.
- Ranger animal companion—A ranger with the Animal Companion talent uses the updated rules for the druid animal companion (e.g., you can cast spells on your animal companion). Source: 13 True Ways p. 41.
- Drunken Style Monk—This is a monk fighting style that didn't make it into 13 True Ways, but was included in the playtests. It was further refined and included in a Sage Advice article.
Monday, June 28, 2021
Escalation Issue 9 is Available
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.
Please consider submitting articles that expand upon the theme of the High Seas for Issue 10. See the information on the right side of the page if you'd like to submit an article or art.
Thanks again to everyone who made this possible!