UPDATE: This post has been updated on 27th of October to reflect the latest design. This is the first post in a series where we introduce various slight modifications to the 5e SRD rules in Hyperstorm RPG. The rules are currently in development & testing and can change, be tweaked or dropped altogether along the […]
The Rules page (previously The Game Mechanics) is updated to correspond the current design. Some of the new rule ideas were dropped to keep the 5th editions simple and streamlined approach to the game mechanics and keep the game as compatible with other 5e compatible games as possible. The updated page is here.
It’s been a bit silent lately as we have been taking care of some loose ends and, well, making RPGs comes after work and family after all. To be more precise me and Hans have been working on a military scifi RPG that I have been doing since 2010. The game is called Sotakarjut, or “Warhogs” […]
Last week Wizards of the Coast announced big news by publishing the System Reference Document for the 5th edition D&D rules under Open Game License. This caused some discussion within the Ironcore Engine development team, and between me and Hans. This opened a new window for us with some very interesting possibilities. The latest version of Ironcore Engine is […]
Robots and artificial intelligence are standard issue tropes in many science fiction stories and games. In some games you can even play a robot or an artificial intelligence without a physical form, or a morph. In Hyperstorm we decided to make outlines for the use of robots, AIs and uploaded personalities. We will handle uploaded personalities, or ghosts […]
It’s been awhile since the last dev diary entry. We’ve been a bit busy with Chthonian Highways for the last few months, but that has not been away from the development of Hyperstorm. As mentioned in the previous post, Chthonian Highways uses the same core system as Hyperstorm will be using. Consequently we have now a […]
It’s been a bit quiet on the Hyperstorm front lately, but not because nothing would have been happening. We have been just too busy with developing the rules to make dedicated updates 🙂 We have now the core rules pretty much revised and set up and the Chthonian Highways demo game is coming out in […]
Earlier I wrote in the Game Mechanics page that Hyperstorm would be using a d10-based system. Well, it did, but during the summer we playtested the rules more in the context of Hyperstorm and felt that something was off. After long debates and discussion about the system, we decided to upgrade the die type from […]
We’ve have set up some communities and pages in the most common social media services, so it would be easier to follow and share information on the latest news about Hyperstorm RPG and stuff related to it. Here are the services where you can follow Hyperstorm RPG – these links can be also found in the […]
The development of Hyperstorm RPG is now officially kicked off. We had a modest kick-off presentation at Ropecon yesterday. In case you are interested, you can download the presentation slides here. The Plan We have a project plan with nine broad milestones: Concept Design – Initial setting design Prototype – Core game mechanics, character creation and basic setting Alpha […]