Good morning, faithful Elf Lair Supporters! We are  entering our final 24 Hours . It's crunch time! As always, stick with us - you have nothing to lose by letting your pledge ride, but a fantastic new game to gain when we fund at the end of this thing. If you're already in, please put the word out and get others in! We need a street team to make this happen; it's CROWD funding, after all! Get your gaming groups in. Get your friends in. Hit all your social media channels. If you haven't backed yet, this is a final call for it. We need your help! You're in on our newsletter because you're a fan of Elf Lair Games. Help us to keep producing the quality games you love.  Cheers to all our backers! Art by Bradley K. McDevitt Why Back Wasted Lands? Our first Powered by O.G.R.E.S. game, Night Shift: Veterans of the Supernatural Wars, is a celebrated take on modern urban fantasy and horror, which is rated 4.7 stars on DriveThruRPG (and sat at 5 stars...

Good morning, faithful Elf Lair Supporters! We are entering our final week and still moving forward. As always, stick with us - you have nothing to lose by letting your pledge ride, but a fantastic new game to gain when we fund at the end of this thing. Always remember the last few days of a Kickstarter pledges fly in, and we have a lot of watchers waiting for that 48-hour notice!  Cheers to all our backers! Art by Bradley K. McDevitt New Updates This week, in case you missed it, we released TWO previews for backers (one for everyone who stops by). Everyone got a PDF of the full early text of Chapter 8: An Overview of the Dreaming Age posted in the campaignn for direct download. Backers got a preview of the rules for demihuman races for traditional fantasy, via direct message on Kickstarter. If you didn't get it, check your messages! It was sent last Thursday (the 13th), but I'm happy to send to current backers who backed after that if you drop me a message here.  Support Sma...

Wasted Lands: The Dreaming Age With so much attention on the  Wasted Lands Kickstarter  it's been a minute since we've touched on a behind the curtain for the O.G.R.E.S. System. Fear not, though; we're not done with these behind-the-curtain peeks at how the game works and the design decisions herein. This time we're going to look at the ways you can customize the levels of grit in your game.  Before we move forward, however, here are the prior blogs in the series:  Wasted Lands: The Dreaming Age is Imminent! Will Wasted Lands be a Retroclone? What Are Divine Touchstones? Races (Species) and Cultural Backgrounds How Do Tiered Abilities Work?   Class Abilities in Wasted Lands A Completely Customizable System Levels of Grit in O.G.R.E.S. The O.G.R.E.S. system has three different "levels of grit," that you can mix and match to build exactly the style of play you like. These three levels are "Realistic", the standard or normal assumption for play; Gritty...