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The people of Petrikstein are tormented by a blood craving beast prowling the night. Players take the roles of parish appointed investigators on a mission to find and slay this alleged Vampyr, before it claims even more lives. Will they be able to find out the truth in web of lies, myths, and fear fueled superstitions? Play to find out!

The Children of Saturn is three things:

- a simplified and streamlined variation on John Harper's Tales from the Wild Blue Yonder series, combining traits and keys into one aspect of the characters.

- a simple module to guide your vampire hunt with ideas to clash evidence of an actual beast with medieval superstitions and modern stereotypes. Players investigate and participate in creating the story, to find out which version of the vampire, if any at all, happens to be true.

- a system to engage players in the world-building and storytelling by assigning them roles, each responsible for different aspects of the fiction. Use special rule of your role to guide your imagination and introduce new elements into the story!

Tales from the Wild Blue Yonder by John Harper licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

Original art by Dan John Crawler.

For free graphic design resources check: https://blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/

Thanks to Paweł J., Łukasz 'Lukser' Sereda, Serge, Filaster Kania and few others for playtesting. Special thanks to Marcin 'Lazmar' Łazarewicz for proofreading.

The Children of Saturn are licensed under CC Attribution BY-NC-SA 4.0

StatusReleased
CategoryPhysical game
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
AuthorDan John Crowler
GenreRole Playing
TagsIndie, One-page, Vampire

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The Children of Saturn.pdf 493 kB
Dzieci Saturna 1_1.pdf 135 kB

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I really like this!


Combining keys and traits into one feature is a great way to streamline the original Lady Blackbird system. Together with the specific character rules this gives the players a lot of input on how they could play their characters without making them read to much text.

I also think that it makes hacking the system a bit easier.

And I love the design of the hex map!

Thank you for creating this!

Hi Omnebulen,

Happy to hear from you and glad you found CoS interesting.
Do let me know if you play it!

Pozdrawiam,
DJC

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Polish translation is now available as Dzieci Saturna!

edit: put on hold due to errors. Corrected file will follow.

Fixed PL version uploaded!