Æther

For those of you who are unaware, the Wellstone City Chronicles are our adventures for the immensely popular Wellstone City setting that we have for the Æther and Savage Worlds systems. Only after they had already been written did we plan on switching things over to Savage Worlds and release the subsequent adventures in formats for both systems. The first two Chronicles, Two-Bit Thugs and Burning Crosses, were short adventures; too short to be fair, with each of them weighing in at 6 pages of content, plus maps and character sheets. With the Chronicles since those adventures hitting closer to 20 pages, it’s time for a much needed overhaul.

Along with the release of four new Chronicles this year, Kevin will be working on the re-fit of the first two, adding some more content, and spicing things up a little bit. The gist of the adventures will stay the same, but we’re hoping to get new maps through our partnership with Fabled Environments, and we will update the Savage Worlds rules to be in line with Savage Worlds Deluxe, which was released this past summer. Those who bought copies of the adventure previously will receive a coupon for fresh copies of the applicable adventures they have previously purchased.

It should be a good year for Wellstone City, with more Chronicles, refitting the first two adventures, and a few other surprises!

Silver Gryphon Games has officially become a licensee of Pinnacle Entertainment and will be releasing settings and adventures for the Savage Worlds system, and we couldn’t be happier! We have boatloads of adventures coming out, many of which are supported by the Modern Noir Crime setting of Wellstone City, the sparkling jewel of corruption and opportunity in the American South.

We have an aggressive release schedule for the next two years and many of the releases are for Savage Worlds, the Æther System, and our second flagship of Eiridia. We at Silver Gryphon Games are extremely excited to have these new opportunities unfold for us.

Also, we have increased the size of our operations with the latest edition to the Silver Gryphon Games staff of Dearing “Dave” Baymiller. Dave has been gaming for almost 25 years and has been functioning as our go-to man for editing for the last two years. He is overseeing our Savage Worlds adventures and settings as well as performing the functions of our Staff Editor.

We have also done a little updating on our webpage and that will be displaying more content, and it’s been changed a little to enhance its utility.

For those of you who have missed it, we also have a Facebook page, and if you have the inclination, we invite you to become our fan. We have frequent updates via Facebook and it is one of the best ways to keep up-to-date with us and our products.

On top of all of that, we will be participating in the upcoming March Forth sales event being hosted by the rpgnow.com and drivethrurpg.com PDF sales sites. We plan on having our first doses of Savage Worlds on sale at the time as well.

So to our new friends, we welcome you, and to our old friends, we thank you, and we’re looking forward to another great year here at Silver Gryphon Games.

After much deliberation and a lot of checking, the Æther Core Book is now available in printed form. We wanted to make sure that many of the problems encountered by Kevin when he was running Æther Gaming Systems weren’t stumbling blocks for us again. In short, he learned from his mistakes, and those lessons were the cause of the six-month delay between the availability of the Core Rules in paperback and its original release in PDF format through Drive Thru RPG and RPG Now.

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