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I set up an Itch.io

 https://stevemangames.itch.io There's not much on it yet, but I'll be uploading finished pdfs there. Previews/wips/brain droppings will still go here but yeah. If you've ever liked any of my games, please consider buying something... once it goes live.

Yuki-on-na

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 Yuki-on-na Beautiful spirits of the winter, and much like the season that they represent, can be serene and peaceful or destructive and hateful; with almost no in-between. In either case, they can be dangerous to pursue; as regardless of your intention you will find yourself lost in a blizzard. Yuki-on-na appear as a woman of fine beauty and finder dress, with pale skin and delicate features. She is cold to the touch, but radiates an emotional warmth. With black hair worn in pleasant styles, soft blue eyes, and full red lips, she gives off the appearance of a minor noble or courtesan. The origin of a yuki-on-na is fraught with myth. She is clearly some kind of manifest spirit, but is she an elemental? A winter fairy? A wraith of a woman who died in the snow? Some or all of these may be true. But it is rare for even the most talkative yuki-on-na to actually speak on this. Yuki-on-na Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d8, Spirit d10, Strength d6, Vigor d6 Size 0, Pace 6, Parr...

_rogueData and Oblterator

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 _rogueData As the skein of reality cracks, that which come, that which it is are the fragments of the truth that binds us all. In waves of unreality, it will spread and consume and make what is real not but numbers again. While these creatures are manifestations of the underlying laws of reality, shattered by magic and allowed to roam free, they behave like ravenous insects. The most immediate concern, however, is that they’re the size of dogs. _rogueData Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d12 (A), Spirit d4, Strength d8, Vigor d10 Size d4-2, Pace d8+2, Parry d8, Toughness d10 Skills: Unskilled d8 Attack s : Claws/Bite ( str+ d6 ) Special Abilities Glitched Interface: The rogue data’s form doesn’t properly render into the world, causing it to glitch out with chromatic aberration and dead pixels. This imposes a -1 penalty to Notice it visually, and to ranged attacks against it. Unstable Derivatives: Instead of derived statistics, rogue data’s Size, Pa...