An exciting new RPG of adventure, language, and liturgy from the mind of Richard Rohlin and the people of Strange Owl Games.
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Hey there!
Rinsos and the Strange Owl team are hard at work on kickstarter rewards. In the meantime, we wanted to point out that our good friend Jonathan Pageau's book Snow White and the Widow Queen is in its final 2 hours! This amazing project features a beautiful retelling of a traditional fairy tale. One of the stretch goals for the project actually includes a short story by our very own Richard Rohlin (aka Rinsos) with a secret Amboria connection!
Strange Owl Games
My dear friends,
It’s been more than twenty years since I penned these words, written in a spiral-bound notebook; the very first words ever written about The World Under Starlight:
Long ago, before the years of the First Eon had yet begun to be reckoned, the people of the water awoke upon the northwestern shore of the great inland sea of Quadran. To them the Creator gave the gift of language, and so they began to give names to things. They called themselves the Amborians, which signifies water people, and from the first they were unified as one people. They found many precious things in the water, from pearls and diamonds hidden in the deep to a plant called Amseth, from which they made bread, and wine. But the most precious thing that they found was the ice-blue crystal that could shine with its own light. They called it Hoorpalb. Hoorpalb could be made into many things; the most precious thing of them was a metal, both light and strong, that would burn with a fervent light if any evil were near.
It’s pretty rough, and we’ve come a long way since then. During all these years, my dear wife Sophia has been the primary audience for Amboria, along with a few of my family and friends. Then, in February of 2018, I opened up my mostly private world to a small circle of players for the very first “Thunder in the North” campaign. Now, five years later, the good people of Strange Owl Games have given me the opportunity to share this world with you. And your response was overwhelming, humbling, and deeply encouraging. I wish I could show this Kickstarter to that lonely teenager and his stacks of spiral-bound notebooks!
Thank you. From the bottom of my heart, thank you!
And now, I have a LOT of work to do. Here’s what you can expect to happen over the course of the next few weeks:
First, Kickstarter will process your payments, which typically takes about 14 days.
Second, we’ll be preparing PDF drafts of Amboria: Roleplaying in the World Under Starlight and Thunder in the North: A Grand Campaign in the World Under Starlight. You can expect to receive these sometime after Kicksarter processes the payments. the primary writing for both is done, but we still need to arrange and compile Thunder in the North.
Third, we’ll be reaching out to people who backed at the Hero Errant I and Hero Errant II levels. These players will be participating in a massive anthology campaign event called The Midnight War. We will reach out to you soon with a list of session times for you to choose from, as well as other information about the campaign. Please bear with us while we get this organized—it’ll be my first time trying to run a campaign like this at this scale!
Once again, thank you all. You’ll be hearing a lot more from me and Strange Owl Games over the coming months!
- Richard (aka Rinsos)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF26TZqTxHM
My dear friend,
Since you and your patrons have been so interested in the curious sculptures we have sent before, I thought you might enjoy the most recent fruit of our labors (to which I alluded in a previous missive). With the aid of a skilled draughtsman and sculptor, I traveled north to the Cheyth Wood, where I went to some pains to track down some of the largest examples I could find of the shadlaharl, the great horned beast of song and legend whose roar causes the great trees to shake and the waters to boil.
Included in the delivery of our tomes will be the schematics, drawings, and instructions necessary for you to recreate a sculpture of this mighty beast at scale—sure to be popular among those of your wealthier patrons looking to bring something of the exotic into their dining halls and atria.
Yours,
Rinsos Tanurpeim, Chief Scribe of the Red Scriptorium
My dear friend,
I am delighted to report that many of your patrons have corresponded with me over the course of the past forty days, stressing how excited they are and how eagerly they await the publication of these tomes, which are now rapidly approaching completion.
I was somewhat surprised (although in a pleasant way) to learn how greatly they appreciated the addition of ribbons to our codices. Therefore, I am pleased to tell you we will be adding yet another set of ribbons, in celebration of the erudition and good taste of our readers.
Yours,
Rinsos Tanurpeim, Chief Scribe of the Red Scriptorium