Blue Shift thought the hardest battles were the ones you could see coming – the muggers, the bank robbers and especially the supervillains. This time, there’s no city under siege, no ticking clock, no clear enemy in sight. Only a conversation that feels… wrong. Every word is a thread, and the more she pulls, the…
Set in a world where vampires, werewolves, hunters, and other supernatural forces fight for power in the shadows, Era: Bloodlines is the latest tabletop RPG built to use the flexible Era d10 system in the best way. We invite players to explore dark alliances, rival factions, and abilities that can shift the balance of entire…
Some stories never make it to the readers. They sit quietly in sketchbooks, on old hard drives, or in folders marked “someday.” In the ten years of SoV Comics, whole worlds have been started and set aside. Not because they lacked potential, but because even we have to make choices and focus sometimes! Now the…
Hi everyone! Ed, here! Today we take a brand new step in the world of Era: Survival: The 8th Anniversary Definitive Edition is on Kickstarter now. [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadesofvengeance/era-survival-8th-anniversary?ref=btnehg] So join us and enter the world of Gaia like never before! What’s in the 8th Anniversary Edition? The 8th Anniversary Edition contains the all of the content…
You don’t notice anything at first. Then little things start to feel wrong. The streetlight outside your window flickers at the exact same time every night. The cameras in the hallway stutter for a few seconds. A stranger you’ve never seen before walks past your building again and again. That’s when you realize someone is…
Elliot lost everything to the Consortium. But when survival turns into ambition, he joins Smertios Security to claim the one thing they never meant to give him: power. Now, as the chief engineer of a starship in the middle of a war, Elliot will be changed… He’s going to stop following the system, and instead…
This is about the six lives, one broken world, and a second chance that may cost everything. They weren’t chosen for their strength.They were chosen for who they can be. Six strangers. Sent to a time that no longer feels like home.With one mission: stop the moment everything fell apart. There are no guarantees. No…
They called them Deathseekers, long-limbed shadows with hollow eyes, always a step ahead of someone’s final breath. Only Kazuki Okitsu could see them. Only she knew what they meant. Diesel City didn’t welcome her back. Not with the visions. Not with the screams. She wasn’t cursed. She was Empowered. A glimpse, a few seconds into…
Oh, you made it in? Congratulations, intern. Seriously. That first email feels good, right? Let me guess. They told you there’s one permanent spot. That all you have to do is “prove your value” and be the most “reliable”?Yeah, I remember that speech. Here’s what they don’t tell you: the game starts before you even…
Hai-Xang Hayden? Yeah, I’ve heard the name. Everyone has. Depending on who you ask, she’s a playgirl, a visionary, or the spark that’s going to light the whole Consortium on fire. She’s changed recently, since her mother died. Now she moves like someone with nothing left to lose. Doesn’t talk much. Doesn’t trust easy. But…
I am a shark. A ninja. A walking biological experiment with a taste for adrenaline and, well, humans. When the alien dieselpunk robots landed, they didn’t ask questions. They just started drilling.Cities gone. People in chains.Earth is reduced to one giant oil pump, fueling their next invasion. I mean, I could’ve stayed out of it….
No names. No trail. Just legends. Some say the twins aren’t even human, just a red shadow and a blue silence. You anticipate track them, you don’t escape. You only survive if they didn’t want to kill you. One person said Red smiled right before the trap closed. Another claimed Blue never blinked, even while…
The world ended. Then it got worse. Then Athena picked up a demon’s sword… and ended up with the demon in her head. Hi everyone! I’m excited to announce my new comic, Demon Sword, is now live on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sovcomics/demon-sword-a-post-apocalyptic-fantasy-comic?ref=3il8o4 Set in a post-apocalyptic world torn apart by angels and demons, Demon Sword follows Athena:…
Hi everyone! I wanted to take a moment to let you know about the panel that Leo and I did at MCM Comic Con called How to Voice, Direct and Produce your own Audio Drama. It’s up on YouTube thanks to the efforts of our friend, who was in the front row of the audience…
Hi, everyone! I promised last week I was going to talk about the world of Era: Forbidden, so here we are! Imagine the modern world. Now imagine that angels and demons appeared out of nowhere, attacking each other, fighting and not really caring about humans. Aside from demons choosing to feed off humans, that is…
Hi everyone! I thought I’d talk to you today about an idea that I’ve had. It was really inspired by the “How to Voice, Direct and Produce your own Audio Drama” panel that Leo Cosh and I did last weekend at MCM Comic Con. I had a lot of fun, and we got a lot…
Hi everyone! I’ve recently been running a couple of workshops at MCM Comic Con, attempting to create Tabletop RPGs in an hour. These have been generally successful and tend to go the same way: there are loads of ideas, and some of them can be combined together into something that’s really quite interesting and exciting…
Hi everyone! This is an interesting situation. Honestly, I fell into a trap I usually try hard to avoid. Cascade has its roots all the way back in Lacuna, our very first comic, almost ten years ago now. Even then, I knew I was building towards a superhero universe, and the Cascade Event was always…
Hi everyone! I’ve been doing panels at major conventions here in the UK for almost 15 years now and I thought it might be a good time to give some thoughts about it. Delivering panels at conventions are an interesting experience, and always have been. I’ve done them with different individuals (Jonathan Lewis and Leo…
Hi everyone! During COVID, I worked with a number of writers to expand our audio drama library (and to have a little fun directing something new!) Writing and directing audio drama is very different from working on a Tabletop RPG, novel, or comic. There’s a lot more live feedback: you collaborate directly with actors, see…
Hi everyone! This is an excellent question. I was asked it recently at a panel at a convention, so I thought I would take a moment to write an article about it and let you know what I think. When you’re building an audio drama, you don’t have the visuals on screen. In comics, in…
Hi everyone. I reached a point in game creation some years ago now where I still felt that tabletop roleplaying games are fantastic – I love them, I play them a lot – but they are a large time investment! Sometimes you just want something that’s going to take you somewhere between five minutes and…
Hi everyone. The feedback about my comics has always been extremely positive, especially around characterisation. I’d like to believe it’s deserved, when people say that the superheroes that I create are written in a really compelling, real-feeling way. They’re not just a paragon of virtue or a monster that’s unsaveable; they have depth to them….
Hi everyone! You wouldn’t believe some of the looks I get when I say we make “Audio Dramas” at a convention. Having just done one, it particularly stuck in my mind, so I thought I’d do a little disambiguation today, for your benefit. (And also mine – it doesn’t do me much good writing to…
Hi everyone! It’s been a long time since I wrote about a convention in detail on this blog. That’s okay; to be honest, I think these can get a bit samey. When I was invited* by the incomparable John Dodd to Dragonmeet Spring (also referred to as “Call to Adventure”, I think?), I said yes…
Hi everyone! Today I’m going to talk about Hardcastle’s Havoc and Hell! Hardcastle’s Havoc is the very first audio drama that EraScapes ever created. And when I say EraScapes, I really mean Leo Cosh, who wrote, directed and edited the original version of Hardcastle’s Havoc. Hardcastle’s Havoc is a story of a disenfranchised individual who…
Hi everyone! I suspect that it might have crossed the mind of you wonderful, clever people that the Cascade Event is a confluence of the stories that we have been building for the last 10 years. Since Lacuna: Revelation, I have had a plan for where things are going to go… I’m a plan kind…
Hi everyone! I’ve been working hard for the last week at the day job, but still doing my best to find the time to look at various other things that need progressing. I’ve spent a lot of time working on Era: The Consortium expansions, especially the Armoury expansion, which now has several pieces of artwork…
Hi everyone! Perhaps unsurprisingly, I’m still talking about Cascade #2, which is about halfway through its Kickstarter run now. We’re a small distance off “Funded”, so if you didn’t check it out yet, please do so! I’m confident you won’t regret it: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sovcomics/cascade-part-2?ref=1e10wr When you do, you might think “This is one of a long…
Hi everyone! To tell you where Adapt came from, I have to take you back several years, before COVID-19, to a world that was a little different. At the time, I was doing a lot of conventions, including a lot of people sitting down to try out our games. Our Tabletop RPG sessions were a…
