The Pen of Penemue

The second leader spotlight is on Dr. Maria Kharcheva, the daughter of Soviet Union secret police that managed to stop a reality-changing frequency from being broadcast across the entire world. She has followed in their footsteps, and is now the Hellfire group's foremost archivist and curator of treasures, both magical and mundane.

Dr. Paul Abberline is the first leader I'll be looking at, and going into his transition from the knowledge-seeking leader of early Pendant World to the fragile but lethal ranged threat he is today.

The Disciple of Malphas is one of Ravenous Beyond's support models, focused on buffing demonic allies and helping with the tempo of the game. As with my previous article on the Thug , I will go through the current version of the disciple, some of its previous iterations, and how you might use it in a game of Pendant World .

The Thug is what you might consider Ravenous Beyond 's basic melee troop. In this article, I'll go through the original concept, some play-testing results, and why I've settled on the current Thug as is.

The short story: I'm back. The slightly longer story: for the last few years, I have been working on developing a tabletop game of my own, and only now have I felt that it was good enough to share - at least in a form strong enough to playtest. It's called Pendant World , and it is an urban fantasy skirmish game that draws heavily on real-world scary stories and mythologies to construct its own mythos. Picking the right moment to wield your magic and monstrous creatures is actually important, mechanically speaking, because the table is littered with innocent bystanders who were just out for a night on the town (or whatever), and any overt manifestations are going to send them scrambling for cover - and for their smartphone cameras. Pendant World  has a number of factions, all representing major thematic elements from urban fantasy. Beleaguered Man - a ragtag collection of hunters, practitioners (think mages), and a small PMC banding together to push back against th...