Author: Ben Overmyer

The upcoming second edition of Ingenium offers a tabletop role-playing experience unlike any other. That may sound like marketing hyperbole, but I genuinely believe it. Let me tell you why.

When I first put pen to paper in 1999 to begin creating Ingenium’s world of Eiridia, I was a voracious reader. The Web was not as pervasive as it is today, and instead of consuming blogs every day, I would read novels. Two authors influenced those early days of Eiridia, and three more later proved…

When I was young, I was a voracious reader with a love of fantasy and science fiction. Much to my parents’ dismay, I eschewed reading the classics and instead dove into books like Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar series, or Raymond E. Feist’s Riftwar saga. I loved stories of magic doing wondrous and terrible things, and stories…

Silver Gryphon Games is proud to announce that we are Kickstarting Ingenium Second Edition! We’ve succeeded twice at Kickstarters. That’s not so much an expression of “we’re awesome” as it is “you told us what you wanted, and we happily gave it to you.” In the case of the second, Æthermancy, we’re still finishing it…

Ingenium Second Edition is just around the corner. It promises to be the greatest RPG I have ever written. I hope it will end up being the greatest RPG you’ve ever played, too.

Those of you who pre-ordered a Year of the Gamer t-shirt know that the deadline to sign up was two days ago. By now, you’re curious as to when you’ll get your shirt! So, here’s an update on how things stand. We’re still waiting to get payment from a few people who signed up on…

The first official Ingenium Iconic is now available! Jonas Dartherian, the Fierce Human Soldier, is a local to the Summerfort area. He’s a young knight errant with a powerful secret that even he is unaware of.

Frequently, modern tabletop RPGs will include in their core book a set of “iconic” characters. These are used as examples of the kinds of characters you can play, but they’re also used as main characters for bits of fiction scattered about the main book(s).

While character creation in Ingenium is already pretty easy, there can be a lot of writing involved. Spell and Talent text needs to be recorded somewhere, and it’s often best to have it directly on the character sheet instead of making notes of page numbers. To help that go faster, and to make it easier…

With the launch of the Kickstarter for Æthermancy, we’ve had a few questions come out from the community about where this puts Ingenium. Because Ingenium is a fantasy game, and Æthermancy appears to be a fantasy product for a different system, there’s some confusion as to which system you should be playing if you want…