Cozy roleplaying in a haunted post-apocalypse.
Join Cobb, Tissa, and Penelope as they travel the pastoral continent of Amylte and try to help the world heal from the mistakes of its war-torn past.
Sword of Symphonies is the award-winning Actual Playtest of Heroic Chord, led by designer Cat McDonald and played by their excellent friends.
In an enormous nest lined with soft tawny feathers, the Prince of This Island sits, knees drawn close to their chest, watching the sea. They close their glassy black eyes and begin to hum, rocking si…
“I understand this must be confusing,” says the soft little human in the robe, and the Ambassador in Pearl hates that thought.
“It is not.” She moves her head, and she can feel the movement ripple d…
The Emerald Duchess approaches the city of Stageport, surrounded by a flurry of daemons. She takes the first step from the soft grass of the Veldt onto the fabricated stone roads of this gray world. …
The Ambassador in Pearl stops in her tracks, and her hounds circle in close to her as everything in the clearing becomes still.
"There you are. Do you have a moment?”
She turns to see a human, one of t…
Does Cat really deserve to rule as Host King? Let’s play the new game Descent in Silver and Glass to find out!
Check out Solo But Not Alone here!
Journey SRD and Beneath the Wishing Tree here!
Mastering…
I have no idea what happens in this one. I’ve been working hard on stuff for our new network, and so I left them to their own devices and this is what they sent me.
Music by Kathleen!
She is hungry. She is always hungry.
Surrounded by a chill mist and the infinite darkness of the southern ocean, she waits, hungry, for her next prey to approach.
A ship drifts past her, and faintly, …
The ironclad Invincible drifts up Amylte’s coast, casually knocking aside the ice floes that decorate the surface of the ocean this far northeast.
The Admiral of the Glacier Legion stands on the deck,…
In an abandoned hall half-buried in the Veldt, the emerald Duchess opens her eerie green eyes to the sight of light filtering in through the one window that remains.
This is her place, and until now t…
The Radiant Prince hops off his altar, in the darkness of the shrine called Escape Route of the South Wind, content to be the only light in the stone ruins. His odd little courtiers watch him as they…
This week on Cat’s Cradle, hop in the car with us! We’re joined by Bappy from The Eternity Archives! We’re going on a roadtrip, and it’s time to answer the eternal gamer question:
What should we play?
The sky over the eastern desert is enormous. Standing on the sacred plateau where the remains of the deilith Benevolent Zhuge are collected, one can see from horizon to horizon, an endless world unde…
The moon is full over the Silver River, and for the first time in ages, as the tide recedes, the sound of a flute echoes over the area.
One by one, they emerge from the cave, dressed in layers of seaw…
What is the purpose of power?
There are countless answers, of course, from countless people, ranging from obvious to esoteric, from benevolent to craven. But for many people, power is its own reason,…
For better or for worse, chaos reigns in Amylte. The gods are asleep, the kings dethroned, the land unruled except by its own nightmares.
For better or worse, the age of order in Amylte is over. Nati…
This week Kathleen did the intro, as is tradition! So, enjoy!
Original music by Kathleen~!
You can find the Heroic Discord here!
This week on Cat’s Cradle, Cat has finally done their best to write a Golden Sky Stories!
It’s called Dragons of Amylte, and it’s a sweet little family-friendly game about being baby shapeshifters and…