Nexus: jewel of the Scavenger Lands.

A story in the Storytelling Adventure System for Exalted.

Daughter of Nexus is our first offering for Exalted in the Storytelling Adventure System. The file contains a number of hyperlinks to various portions of the text as well as bookmarks, so you can always jump right to what you need with just a click.

Last year, Monte started up new d20 System campaigns and began experimenting with some house rules that he had mused about on www.montecook.com and the messageboards there. The response was overwhelming -- game fans wanted to see how these new, experimental rules worked.

Because you demanded it!

So Monte took a break from his fiction work to compile this book, a collection of the house rules he currently uses in his own games. These include a spell progression system that ranks spells from levels 1 to 20, new rules for healing and curative magic, magical disciplines for spellcasters that always give them an active power and a way to contribute, and much more.

This book also includes a new base class, the runeblade, for players wanting a character that combines magic and martial skill without the use of spells. New rules for wizards, clerics, druids, paladins, and rangers are provided, offering each class magical disciplines like Godhammer, Eldritch Bolt, and Nature and #39;s Senses. And, of course, the book also offers dozens of new spells, feats, and magic items.

Inherent within all the rule changes in this book is the idea that characters should be able to keep adventuring longer than the rules currently allow. Disciplines, more ample healing, and the other experiments in this PDF exclusive help bring down the barriers -- like casters running out of spells and characters running low on hit points -- that traditionally make parties stop to rest before they really want to.

Start your own experiment this month!

Read Me Before Printing

The Tuatha D and eacute; Dannan is a new pantheon for your Scion cycle. This section contains everything you and rsquo;ll need, including the gods of the Tuatha, a complete 1 to 10 dot write up of their pantheon Purview, new Birthrights, new allies, new antagonists, details on their Overworld and Underworld, a new Titan that plagues the Tuatha and two sample Scions (one hero and one demigod) so you can jump right into the game.

The Scion Companion is a joint venture between our traditional and alternative publishing divisions, to provide you periodical content for Scion without leaving behind fans to love our hardcover books. The first four sections will be released as individual PDFs over the course of the next several months. The final two sections of the book (a third pantheon and a new background for Scion cycles) will appear in the final release of the Scion Companion, which will be for sale online and in stores as a hardcover book, as well as a complete PDF release combining all of the sections.

The Scion Companion is a joint venture between our traditional and alternative publishing divisions, to provide you periodical content for Scion without leaving behind fans to love our hardcover books. The first four sections will be released as individual PDFs over the course of the next several months. You can also purchase this subscription to all four parts, and you and rsquo;ll get a copy of the entire Scion Companion for free! You can also wait and buy the entire Scion Companion on PDF when it releases, which will contain all the previously released sections.

This subscription will contain:

• Part One: The Tuatha De Dannan (the Irish pantheon)
  
• Part Two: Manifestations of Ichor (new bits for players)
  
• Part Three: The Celestial Bureaucracy (the Chinese pantheon)
  
• Part Four: Secrets of the World (various Storyteller articles)
  

The Imperfect Lotus is a PDF-exclusive (not available in print) Exalted Second Edition supplement to the upcoming release, Scroll of the Monk. Many rare and exotic martial arts are practiced in Creation. Within this tome are enclosed some of the rarest, arts uncommon even compared to their rarified brethren. When your Exalt and #39;s back is against the wall and all hope seems lost, these styles and #39; unexpected techniques may be what and #39;s necessary to turn the tables. Players and Storytellers intrigued by such esoteric fighting arts should inquire within. A martial arts sourcebook for Exalted featuring eight supernatural martial arts styles, ranging from simple Terrestrial styles to powerful Celestial fighting arts.

People Disappear All The Time. Will You Be One Of Them?

In The Harvesters, the characters are pitted against a group of kidnappers that prey upon the forgotten people and sell them off to the highest bidder. They visit upon those lost souls any torment that pleases them, so long as they don and rsquo;t compromise the bottom line. But all isn and rsquo;t as it seems, and what at first appears to be a perfectly normal (if genuinely monstrous) crime begins to show the involvement of something unnatural around the edges, revealing to the characters a glimpse of the strange and terrifying things that lurk in the shadows.

A story in the Storytelling Adventure System for the World of Darkness, inspired by Midnight Roads.

Even Mages are Afraid of Someone Breaking into their Home

A mage and rsquo;s Sanctum is his home, and the Hallow is the soul of it. When bereft of these two things, the mage is not only robbed of her sanctuary but also the Mana that replenishes her magic. Wars have been waged among mages for centuries over the right to call a Hallow their own, and bitter enemies have been forged from the fires of dying Sanctums. Now yours is on the line. What will you risk for the right to call a place home?

A story in the Storytelling Adventure System for Mage: The Awakening.

Lines of Power contains a number of interactive links that take you to page references and reference sheets to help you stay organized at the gaming table.