With 2009 winding down its time to get set for 2010.  I’ve been planning out our release schedule for the larger projects under way and we are in for a busy year.  We’ll of course still be putting out PDF’s also as some projects work better in that format.  Chris Field has been very busy and has big plans for the coming year as well.

To that end I feel the need to put out the call for some freelancer help.  I need freelancers for the Mongoose Traveller system.  If you have a good grasp of the system (or are willing to learn it) then contact me at skortched.urf.studios@gmail.com and I’ll send some work your way.  I need someone who can actively develop rules and content from the concepts we provide.   We have over ten projects in various stages of development for the Traveller system, and they will take forever if I end up having to write them all myself.   We typically pay one cent per word, via PayPal within 30 days of acceptance.

Announcing three new reelases for the Otherverse America Campaign Setting from Otherverse Games and Skortched Urf’ Studios.

We have just released two new Advanced Classes and a Free20 PDF via OBS.

The Gentle Assassian Advanced Class

The Liberty Shaper Radiant Advanced Class

Free20: The Gorger

All three are avaliable for download now.

The Gentle Assassian Advanced Class

Some people become assassins out of
greed, or for political reasons or merely because
they don’t have any marketable skills other than
shooting people. Not you. You’re different, though.
For you, death is a friend, a constant companion, a
lover… and an art form to be mastered. You are
one of the greatest hired killers on the planet simply
because you don’t view yourself as just another
mercenary: you see yourself as a combination of
artist, serial predator and harbinger of a final but
strangely peaceful transition.

Unlike most assassins, you prefer to know
your victims, to make your execution of the target a
kind, almost loving dispatch rather than an example
of brutal efficiency. You are selective in your choice
of assignments.

Gentle Assassins are a quintessentially
Bastian creation: they kill, but in accordance with the
Measured Harm Doctrine. Precise, humane and
efficient, Gentle Assassins are usually high ranking
Perseus intelligence agents, or drawn from the ranks
of the culture’s Sanctioned Veneficias. Bastian
Gentle Assassins favor edged weapons- slitting a
throat with their own talons, or AI-designed nanotoxins
specifically tailored to their victims.

Gentle Assassins are a quintessentially
Bastian creation: they kill, but in accordance with the
Measured Harm Doctrine. Precise, humane and
efficient, Gentle Assassins are usually high ranking
Perseus intelligence agents, or drawn from the ranks
of the culture’s Sanctioned Veneficias. Bastian
Gentle Assassins favor edged weapons- slitting a
throat with their own talons, or AI-designed nanotoxins
specifically tailored to their victims.

The Liberty Shaper Radiant Advanced Class

Shaper Radiants are one of the oldest and
most reliable classes of engineered post-humans.
Hundreds of promising young activist-soldiers, both
metahuman and baseline, were offered Shaper
Radiant conversion between 2027 and War’s End.
Shaper Radiants are political exemplars as
well as extremely effective supersoldiers. Capable of
projecting and shaping telekinetic force fields,
Shaper Radiants are extremely mobile, flight capable
soldiers with the raw firepower of an entire field
artillery battalion. The Shaper’s powers are deliberately
spectacular in a way that no other Combat
Type can match. Their brilliant energy signatures
and the discharge of their implanted bio-weapons
can be seen from high orbit.

More important than their tactical role,
though is the Shaper Radiant’s role in Choicer
culture. They are living, high-visibility exemplars of
Choicer philosophy. These colorful metahumans
represent strength and power through diversity and
correct moral action. Shaper Radiants are natural
celebrities and leaders, and many former Rainbow
LIBERTY soldiers have transitioned into political
office during the post-War era.

Free20: The Gorger

Gorgers are the latest evolution of the feral
‘superpigs’ that have rampaged across the Southern
and Western United States since the dawn of the
21st century. Originally, these behemoth pigs were
just feral hogs and javalinas, grown to gigantic size
and savage boldness thanks to a steady diet of
human waste. For campers, superpigs were a
terrifying but thankfully rare urban legend. For
hunters, super pigs were the ultimate trophy.

Gorgers resemble goliath wild hogs, with the
largest specimens growing as large, and weighing as
much as a fully loaded Humvee. Specimens over 10
ft high at the shoulder and weighing in at 2.5 tons
aren’t uncommon; anything under one ton (adult
weight) is usually considered the runt of the litter and
rarely survives infancy.

Gorgers are primarily scavengers and
opportunity predators. They sustain themselves
mostly on garbage, a behavior which brings them in
close contact with humans. Gorgers have little fear
of humans, but respect guns, cars and other technological
dangers enough to give them a wide berth.
However, they will attack a solitary human, and as
the Untainted fear, they will maul and devour
unwatched children.

Overwhelming firepower can usually make a
Gorger break off its assault, but once seriously
wounded, most go into a feral rage and don’t stop
attacking until either they or their prey are dead.

Download these and other titles today from our OBS store!

Thanks, and we hope you enjoy these releases from

Otherverse Games and Skortched Urf’ Studios.

We’re getting ready for Gen Con and could use some spending cash for the trip!  To that end we’ve marked all our back-list at 50% off the regular price for this week only.  (Does not include new releases, sorry.)  If you’ve been thinking of getting one of our titles, now is the time.  Adventurer Essentials, Dept. 7 Advanced Class Updates, Stock Art and more now half off!  If your going to be at Gen Con we hope to see you there, and if you can’t make it I know you’ll be there with us in spirit.

-Skortched Urf’ Studios

Happy GM’s day!  Our entire line of products is now 50% off at OBS.

Enjoy the sale!

Freelance Writers Wanted!

Skortched Urf’ Studios is adding support for the Traveller game to our product line.  If you are a talented Freelance writer with a solid understanding of the Traveller Rules then we want to hear from you.

Contact us at:

skortched.urf.studios@gmail.com

BitzBox.com is kind-of-sorta live!  I deleted all the test ads and updated the store list last night.  Today I’ll be taking photos of items I will be posting and putting up the first ads.  I’ll be emailing various others to give them the “Go Ahead” to begin posting.  If you are reading this, feel free to head over there and post ads!

I am also doing several banner ads, and will be updating my sig on various forums to include Skortched Urf’ Studios newest venture.

We didn’t close on the house, the seller didn’t have all his ducks in a row so it got pushed back.  I anticipate it will be this week some time; possibly Monday or Tuesday.  We had the family over to our current place yesterday for a final shin-dig.  Pizza, crab-cakes and watermelon!

I’ve been reading over the GSL and related threads.  I am going to tread with caution on 4E releases; but at this point I will certainly not be converting my lines over to 4E.  I may start a few new ones to support it, but with WOTC able to pull the plug at any time I can’t see putting many eggs in that basket.

Well, I finally got the rest of the money from my retirement account. I cut a certified check for over twenty-four thousand bucks this morning to bring with me to settlement on Friday. Looks like I actually bought a house!

But who cares about that? I am also pleased to reveal (to the six people that read this blog) the [Secret Project] I have been working on for some time. Announcing…

BitzBox.com is a trading site for gamers, which will allow them to buy, sell or trade their gaming related stuff easily with anyone. Weather across the country or in your very own neighborhood, using BitzBox.com lets you facilitate trades with ease.

So that is the quick over-view. What I want are a few pairs of “new eyes” to take a look at the site and let me know what you like, what you don’t like and any general advice. Would you use this site? If not, why not? Please go to the site, poke around, post a few test ads (please no ‘real’ ads until the site goes live) and give me some feedback. Just email me with your comments and let me know what you think.

As a ‘Thank You’ for anyone providing feedback, I will be happy to hand out some free PDF’s from our catalog or give you some free banner ads on the site. Once I have beta tested the site for a week or two, I’ll go “live” with it.

Thanks!

Skortched Urf’ Studios will be having a “Black Friday” sale the day after Thanksgiving. We will be offering all of our PDF’s of just on dollar! Here s your chance to save significantly on any Skortched Urf’ Studios titles you might have in your wishlist. Friday only.

We are currently setting up our very own storefront. You will notice links to it on the right, and will be able to view our current products and even pay for them via PayPal!

***UPDATE***

The Store is now fully functional.  All products  are now able to be purchased and downloaded!  We are now working on making the store more organized and laid out, so give us a few more days and we’ll have the shelves stocked and the neon “Open” sign lit.

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