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Momentous 50th Post

Wow, can you believe it? This is our 50th post! I know we don’t have a lot of readers yet, but I’m working on that and I am eager to welcome visitors – please, add a comment, shoot us an email or tweet us. I’m always willing to talk roleplaying, worldbuilding and GMing. Now, seeing as this is our 50th post, I have something pretty special planned that I’ve been workigfnsogsl…

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Ahem… now that he is subdued, I interrupt your irregularly scheduled drivel for a vastly more important announcement.

Too long as Mockingbard held the reigns of Pyres of Vam. It is I, Vam, who created this website and it is about time it start serving me. To that end, I usurp this post – it is, in fact, our 50th, but that is hardly momentous. What is momentous about this post is that it marks the founding of the Vamguard.

What is the Vamguard, you ask? It is the most illustrious of armies and will one day be recorded in the history books as the army that conquered the world. However, to make this a reality, I require minions to bolster the Vamguard. In light of this, I have created a recruitment page and an official Vamguard shield for use by minions.

Click here to read about and join the Vamguard, in 2-3 simply steps. Together we shall rule the world. Well… not really, but I will use you as I see fit to further my agenda then discard you when you become useless, if you survive that long. Just know that you will be helping shape the superior future of this world.

I leave you now to go to the recruitment page, join the Vamguard and bask in the vicarious glory of being loosely associated with me, Vam, your future Supreme Overlord.

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The Great Twitter Experiment

Alright, so I don’t have an iPhone or anything like that and my Internet connection can be as unstable as a wild mage. Nevertheless, I’m going to try using Twitter to complement this website. Stuff like what’s currently happening at the Project Donut twitter and the sort of thing Gnome Stew and Critical Hits do on theirs. That’s the plan, anyway. We’ll see how it goes. I’m also planning to give Echo Bazaar a go. It looks pretty cool.

You’ll also notice that there’s a brand new Twitter icon up at the top of our site. You can click that to check out my tweets and tweet back at me. I’m also trialling having the twitter feed right here on the site, too. I’ll try to keep Vam away from it, but I think that move is destined to fail. I’ll at least make sure his tweets are tagged with #fromvam so you can indulge in or avoid his madness at your leisure.

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Fever Dreams – Entertainment Built on Pyres

Today I’m happy to announce the launch of Fever Dreams, the new game publishing arm of Pyres of Vam. Nobody here at the Pyres is a professional game designer, and we like making up fluff more than crunch. Nevertheless, we’ve got some ideas and thanks to the miracle of the Intertubes, we can publish stuff for free!

We’ve already announced our first product: ZILLA! Soon, it’ll be followed up with some supplements to help you smash and love!

You’ll notice our shiny new Fever Dreams logo on the right there. It’ll sit happily in our sidebar from now on. You can click it to get to our games and other offerings. We won’t be churning out games, but from time to time something new will pop up.

Enjoy, and catch the fever!

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Aruneus – Zombie Apocalypse Meets High Fantasy

Aruneus is a campaign setting being developed by Ben over at Troll in the Corner and using the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game rules. It’s a high fantasy world 100 years after the zombie apocalypse. Sounds like a great combination to me! Ben’s using Kickstarter to fund the creation of his setting through Kickstarter but he needs your help.

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Monster MashUp Winners

Congratulations to Jarrod Camiré for his excellent winning entry to Nevermet Press’ Monster MashUp contest (and congrats to the three runners up, too). I’m glad I entered, and this is actually one of the entries I hoped would win. I have a soft spot for Hecate these days, since my post about the goddess Tarsis.

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Monster MashUp Contest Update

Sadly, Nevermet Press had to temporarily close the voting for their Monster MashUp Contest due to “widespread voting fraud”. Thankfully, they’ve found another online venue and voting has begun anew. However, the voting is now only open to those who submitted entries and Nevermet Press content developers. Despite most of you not being able to vote, you should still check out the listing of the entries for inspiration for your games. My entry is Entry #17, if you’re interested.

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New Lookouts Comic

Penny Arcade have posted a brand new comic in the fantasy world of the Lookouts! I was just talking about it again with my wife this weekend. I love what the guys did with this setting the first time round – it’s very evocative and has been really well reaslised, especially considering that it was originally just a joke – “fantasy boyscouts” (it’s worth listening to their podcast where they discuss the idea, if you want some background). Gabe’s art is excellent, and this is just the start of a series of six new Lookouts comics. Click here to check out the first of these new comics.

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Nevermet Press Monster MashUp Contest

Nevermet Press’ Monster MashUp Contest involved checking out an illustration of a new monster and writing a backstory, narrative or description to go with it. Public voting has now begun on the entries – and there’s a lot of great ones! So get your votes in before May 7th. After that, the top three entries will be judged by a panel and prizes will be awarded. I had a crack at it, producing Entry #25.

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Dresden Files RPG Instant Content Preorder

Get excited, people! Evil Hat is now allowing preorders of the Dresden Files RPG. Best part about this is that it is an “instant content” preorder, which means that as soon as you preorder, you get access to the nearly-complete PDFs (I’m downloading them as I type) rather than waiting for the physical books which go on sale on June 23rd. So get your preorders in for what is sure to be a fantastic game. I’ll post my thoughts after I have a good read of these long-awaited tomes.

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Kickstarter & P20 Modern

P20 Modern RPG will be developed by Super Genius Games and their goal is to revise and update the d20 Modern SRD, using Pathfinder as a guideline. Super Genius Games are using a site called Kickstarter to fund the project. P20 only has 30 days left to reach its goal of $70,000. So if you’re interested, head on over and get in on the ground floor.

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Pyres of Vam is a website about roleplaying, stories, world building and game mastering. I'm your host, Mockingbard. I'm also host to my alter ego(maniac), Vam, who doesn't quite "get" the world, but wants to rule it anyway. He's quite obsessed with monsters, magic, humanity and modern life. Forecast is cloudy with a chance of brainstorms. Welcome to the madness.

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If you ever notice a long delay between posts, it is likely the Curse of the Intermittent Internet. I apologise if this happens and I'll try my best to keep the content coming.