James Michael Spahn
Fantasy and SciFi Game Designer
James Michael Spahn
James M. Spahn of Barrel Rider Games is an ENnie and Origins Award-winning industry veteran with over a decade of experience. Barrel Rider Games' previous publications include White Box Cyclopedia, White Box: Dungeon Adventures, The Hero's Journey 2e, White Star: White Box Science Fiction Roleplaying, Wizard Van, and many others. He is an active freelance author, having contributed to the Star Wars: Age of Rebellion, Star Wars: Force & Destiny, Star Trek Adventures, Shadowrun: Sixth World, Shadowrun: Anarchy, Legend of the Five Rings, Zorro: The Roleplaying Game, Xcrawl Classics, Dungeon Crawl Classics: Dying Earth, and The One Ring product lines. He served as a design consultant and contributing author to Necrotic Gnome's Dolmenwood and has contributed to Carcass Crawler, the official Old School Essentials 'zine.
Blades of Power
James Michael Spahn
$00.00 Funded on Kickstarter
Blades of Power: Synth & Sorcery Roleplaying is a stand-alone fantasy roleplaying game that is fully compatible with Old School Essentials and other classic B/X rules sets, but designed for play that emulates the fantasy found in classic adventure cartoons of the 1980s. It's neon sunsets across apocalyptic landscapes. It's larger-than-life heroes with fabulous magical powers. It's your power blade in one hand and a laser-blazer in the other as you face off against the time traveling Draconis Maximus, the vile Serpentmen of Venom Spire, and the brain-bending Denizens of the Dream-City, for the fate of the universe!
The Blades of Power Core Rulebook will be available in full-sized 8.5x11 casewrap hardcover and PDF that comes it at around 300 pages with cover art by JE Shields, full color art throughout by industry veteran Rick Hershey, and a foreword by Dungeon Crawl Classics legend and Xcrawl Classics creator Brendan J. LaSalle. Clocking in at around 300 pages.
AVAILABLE SOON IN THE FALL OF 2026 IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS
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