Author: Bill Bridges

Fading Suns Bundle of Holding deals!

Through MONDAY, JULY 22 we present TWO offers featuring FADING SUNS Fourth Edition, the far-future passion-play SFRPG from Ulisses Spiele. “Fading Suns” has starships, blasters, powered armor, alien races, and weird science — but also heroic knights, noble lords, high priests, and headstrong merchants — quests, artifacts, and inscrutable mysteries. And there is horror: monsters and terrifying metaphysical truths. It’s a medieval passion play, where Humanity’s greatest civilization has fallen, bringing a Dark Age to the Known Worlds. The Universal Church of the Celestial Sun (modeled on the historical Byzantine Orthodox Church) pursues cosmic intrigues against the Noble Houses and the Reeves Guild. But even as the stars fade to cinders and the sinful await Final Judgment, a leader has arisen. Emperor Alexius has sworn to unite the worlds again under one banner — to ignite hope once more.

Start with the revived July 2022 FADING SUNS 4E BUNDLE, with all three Fourth Edition core rulebooks and early supplements.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/2024FS4

And its companion offer, FADING SUNS 4 LOST WORLDS

Then venture beyond the Phoenix Empire frontier with the all-new companion offer, FADING SUNS 4 LOST WORLDS, a collection of recent supplements that explore the star systems cut off from the Known Worlds a millennium ago:

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/FS4LostWorlds

Whether or not Emperor Alexius can save the darkening stars, it won’t be long before these two FADING SUNS offers flicker into nothingness together — specifically MONDAY, JULY 22.

Blessed Lux Splendor!

From the journals of Guiseppe Alustro, December 24th, 5023, Holy Terra:

As the glowing embers in the nearby grate warm my study and I prepare to record recent events, I am reminded of that pilgrim I encountered those many years ago on Nowhere. We had joined a caravan to journey to the Gargoyle and encountered, late in the evening, a similar caravan returning from that goliath’s site. Among them was an old hesychast named Martina. I could see in her eyes a certain light, which I deduced to be a fervor evoked by an encounter with Urzenkai. I asked to join her by the fire. Young and impertinent, I intruded upon her hospitality by asking what I later learned was considered to be a terribly rude question on Nowhere. I asked her what the Gargoyle had shown her.

She stared at me for a while, judging me. Perhaps my sincerity shone through, as she eventually gave a curt nod and gazed into the fire. “Gifts. So many gifts. We are told that the Pancreator’s grace is tiring, like the light in the dying embers of this fire. We are fools, like children on Lux Splendor who have opened all our presents and complain that there are no more to unwrap. The Pancreator’s creation is endless. Are there not always more presents when Lux Splendor comes around again? So it is with the universe.”

I nodded. It was a heartwarming message, but not the thunderous prophecy I expected from the Gargoyle. As I rose to rejoin my companions, she spoke again. “Worry not, young Alustro. Urzenkai has a message for you.” This halted me. I had not given her my family name, only my first name. I opened my mouth to speak but she had pulled the hood over her head, signaling that she was done speaking.

She spoke truly, of course. The Gargoyle did give my lady and I a vision of great import. Yet, only now, as I think back upon it, do I believe that her message of grace and gifts was the more important one.

Emperor of the Fading Suns Wants You!

Buy Emperor of the Fading Suns on sale today (July 5, 2022)

EFS and Hammer of the Gods are both on sale today! In addition, the 1.5 patch for Emperor of the Fading Suns has just entered the beta testing phase. That’s right,. we are patching a game that first came out 25 years ago! There have been a lot of changes in this patch, including migrating it to the Visual Studio development environment. If you are interested in being one of our beta testers, please email HDIAndrew@aol.com. Include your Discord address. 

Also, the Fading Suns TTRPG is about to launch the Lost Worlds Kickstarter campaign. You can follow it now to get the news when it launches July 7. 

“Lost Worlds will provide exciting new information on several planets that have existed in isolation since the Fall. Gear up with your friends and set off to rediscover these mysterious planets.”

In other news, GOG has now released the map editor for Battles of Destiny. You can access it from the game start-up screen. We look forward to you sharing the maps you create in the game forums!

ABOUT HOLISTIC DESIGN INC.

Holistic Design is an Atlanta-based game design company. Since 1995, Holistic Design has developed, produced, licensed and sold IP related to roleplaying game products such as Fading Suns and Real Life Roleplaying; tabletop miniature games such as Noble Armada and Carnage; computer games such as Emperor of the Fading Suns, Hammer of the Gods, Machiavelli the Prince, Mall Tycoon and Warhammer 40K Final Liberation; and is currently developing cross-platform video games. Holistic Design was originally founded as Several Dudes Holistic Gaming in 1992.

You can buy Machiavelli the Prince on GOG at https://www.gog.com/game/machiavelli_the_prince
You can buy Noble Armada for Switch and Xbox at
https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/noble-armada-lost-worlds-switch/
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/noble-armada-lost-worlds/9p7lqqqcwpm2Check out our Heretical Musings about Fading Suns at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bkIL7-IVJ4&list=PLW3nBruaKfwyVrp8tdnKPYSbC8NJDFcbV