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Mech Monday Spectrum Patterns
Mech Monday Spectrum Patterns
Happy Mech Monday! Every week we ask the community to design new Mech patterns for a Salvage Union Mech Chassis, with our favourite winning a £10 voucher for our online store.... Read more...
Salvage Union Starter Set Cover Reveals + Campaign Update
Salvage Union Starter Set Cover Reveals + Campaign Update
Hello Salvagers!  We wanted to apologise for the radio silence. We have been hard at work through various life circumstances in setting everything up for the upcoming Salvage Union Starter... Read more...
Salvage Union Starter Set - What's in the box?
Salvage Union Starter Set - What's in the box?
We're excited today to reveal more details on what's in the Salvage Union Starter Set Box.  Read more...
Mech Monday Scrapper Patterns
Mech Monday Scrapper Patterns
Happy Mech Monday! Every week we ask the community to design new Mech patterns for a Salvage Union Mech Chassis, with our favourite winning a £10 voucher for our online store.... Read more...
Salvage Union Core Book and all Adventure Modules Updated to Version 2.0a
Salvage Union Core Book and all Adventure Modules Updated to Version 2.0a
Hello Salvagers, We're happy to announce that we have updated the Salvage Union Core Book from V1.2 to V2.0a as well as We Were Here First!, Rainmaker, and False Flag... Read more...
Mech Monday Mazona Patterns
Mech Monday Mazona Patterns
Happy Mech Monday! Every week we ask the community to design new Mech patterns for a Salvage Union Mech Chassis, with our favourite winning a £10 voucher for our online store.... Read more...
Mech Monday Mule Patterns
Mech Monday Mule Patterns
Happy Mech Monday! Every week we ask the community to design new Mech patterns for each of the Salvage Union Mech Chassis. For our first week we've asked and had... Read more...
Depression, Dark Souls, and Tabletop RPG Design.
Depression, Dark Souls, and Tabletop RPG Design.
Depression I’ve been depressed since around December last year. January was the worst month. I’m starting to feel human again as spring creeps in. There are good days and bad... Read more...
A defence of 'Mother May I' in tabletop roleplaying games.
A defence of 'Mother May I' in tabletop roleplaying games.
 'Mother May I' is a complaint, often thrown disparagingly at tabletop roleplaying games with simpler rules sets, that lean on 'rulings' based play, that play devolves into the players 'begging'... Read more...
Learning to kill your game design darlings - Salvage Union Design Blog #11
Learning to kill your game design darlings - Salvage Union Design Blog #11
One of the most important lessons I’ve learned as a game designer is to know when to kill your darlings. As much as you may love an idea, sometimes you... Read more...
Salvage Union Design Blog #10: Designing an easy to play Mech TTRPG with lots of customisation.
Designing an easy to play Mech TTRPG with lots of customisation. (Design Blog #10)
In this blog, we're going to be looking at the design process behind what led us to that formula and how it supported our wider design goal on Salvage Union,... Read more...
How to design a Salvage Union Mech (Design Blog #9)
How to design a Salvage Union Mech (Design Blog #9)
Salvage Union is a post-apocalyptic, Mech, tabletop roleplaying game with accessible mechanics. This is a two part blog post. In the first place we will be explaining the formula we... Read more...