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  • Shapers
    • 1. An Introduction to Shapers
    • 2. Character Creation
      • Who are you?
      • Primary Attributes
      • Secondary Attributes
      • Aptitudes
      • Cash and Starting Equipment
      • Experience
    • 3. Aptitudes
    • 4. Rules
      • The Basics
      • Actions
      • Movement
      • Lifting
      • Encumbrance
      • Creature Size
      • Combat
      • Damage
      • Health and Healing
      • Shapers
    • 5. Special Abilities
      • Mundane Abilities
      • Extraordinary Abilities
        • Extraordinary Abilities Format
        • Purchase and Improvement
        • Activating Extraordinary Abilities
        • Creating Extraordinary Abilities
          • Effects List
          • Downsides List
        • Extraordinary Ability List
    • 6. Bestiary
    • 7. Consumer Guide
    • Character Sheet PDF
    • Player Handout – Introduction To A New Frontier PDF
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Which opposed test do you prefer?

October 15, 2020 by Long Shadow Leave a Comment

Two 10 sided dice and a 20 sided die.

I have been thinking about opposed tests. It’s an important issue for me, because it will affect what I do with the game I am writing (Shapers). Okay, time for some background. When I first started cobbling together some rules, I thought “Hmmm, I don’t particularly want lots of dice rolls during combat, as that […]

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Custom Abilities and Custom Equipment

July 7, 2020 by Long Shadow Leave a Comment

When I first thought about writing Shapers, I looked at other systems with their spell lists and ability lists and had a good long think about it and how things could be different. Okay, before exploring the alternatives, lets look at the pros and cons of ability lists. The Pros of Ability Lists Whether it’s […]

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Player Handout – Introduction To A New Frontier

March 18, 2020 by Long Shadow Leave a Comment

We have a brand new PDF you can share with your players. It’s a brief introduction to the setting of Shapers to help get their creative juices flowing when creating their first character. Feel free to download it, print it out or otherwise share it with your players. Download Introduction To A New Frontier here, […]

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The Roll20 Character Sheet for Shapers

January 21, 2020 by Long Shadow Leave a Comment

Shapers Logo

You can now use the character sheet we have been working on to play Shapers over on Roll20. Just copy and paste the content of the files over on GitHub into your game’s custom character sheet and hit the ground running! Here’s the important GitHub link. https://github.com/LongShadowGames/Shapers-Roll20-Character-Sheet.git

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The Beastly Bestiary

December 6, 2019 by Long Shadow Leave a Comment

We’re currently filling in the blanks in the Bestiary, which basically means creating a bunch of Racial Abilities for all of the critters big and small that reside therein. As well as a chunk of Mundane Abilities that characters can use, there are a whole heap of Extraordinary Abilities to confound, confuse and cause calamity […]

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Tombstone

November 25, 2019 by Long Shadow Leave a Comment

Cochise County Courthouse 1940

You are sitting by a fire, sharing the warmth and the light it gives with your companions. The night has drawn in and laid a blanket of silence upon the world, smothering all but the crackling of the flames and your own breath. You can’t see beyond the firelight. It’s as if you are in […]

Filed Under: Adventure Seeds, Shapers RPG

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