SOAR: Shirtless On A Rooftop

Devlog

• SOAR Public Playtest V0.6 Release !
  July 22, 2024 by Eld#Beat 'em up, #Slice Of Life, #Tactical RPG, #Tabletop role-playing game

  The SOAR V0.6 Update has released! It has been a bit, and I have picked up some skills since last we saw each other. I have tried my hand at some layout stuff a bit, as well as doing some pieces here... Continue reading

  
• SOAR Public Playtest V0.5 Release !
  April 08, 2024 by Eld#Beat 'em up, #Slice Of Life, #Tactical RPG, #Tabletop role-playing game

  Hi hi hi! I've been thinking about SOAR, and as I've run more of it, I've decided to tweak some things, leading up to this update, and I've changed some stuff I didn't think quite worked as is, as wel... Continue reading
• SOAR Dev Log #6: Combat isn't a fail state
  March 20, 2024 by Eld#Beat 'em up, #Slice Of Life, #Tactical RPG, #Tabletop role-playing game

  Combat is not meant to be a fail state For today's Devlog I wanted to focus on my design philosophy that is a core part of SOAR, and how I've tried to make it clear with my design, but first, some gen... Continue reading

  
• SOAR Public Playtest V0.4 Release !
  March 14, 2024 by Eld#Beat 'em up, #Slice Of Life, #Tactical RPG, #Tabletop role-playing game

  This may seem like a short changelog, but this is probably the update that shakes up how SOAR is played the most by actually adding a GM section with tips and tricks, as well as a bunch of new playboo... Continue reading

  
• SOAR Dev Log #5: GM advice and Mapmaking
  February 23, 2024 by Eld#Beat 'em up, #Slice Of Life, #Tactical RPG, #Tabletop role-playing game, #Devlog

  Little known fact about me, my main involvement in the TTRPG hobby comes from GMing lots of games and designing maps for official Lancer modules. Okay, its actually a fairly known fact, I lied. I'm br... Continue reading
• SOAR Public Playtest V0.33 Release !
  February 05, 2024 by Eld#update, #SOAR

  Not much to actually announce here other than the new cover art that's adapted from the Slash of Life chapter page (i thought it was more immediately eye catching than the old one), some new fluff for... Continue reading

  
• Public Playtest V0.32 Launch !
  February 03, 2024 by Eld#Beat 'em up, #Slice Of Life, #Tactical RPG, #Tabletop role-playing game

  Wanderer Style art by Skycrime 500 page views ! 170 downloads ! Wow ! This means so much, genuinely ! I am so happy with how this project is turning out, genuinely. Taking some time to work on it here... Continue reading

  
• SOAR: Dev Log #4
  February 01, 2024 by Eld#Beat 'em up, #Slice Of Life, #Tactical RPG, #Tabletop role-playing game

  Hi ! Been a bit, but it doesn't mean I haven't been working on this. In fact, I've been working away at V0.3 a fair bit, and I got to run SOAR again as a one shot and a combat playtest, which got me m... Continue reading
• SOAR: Dev Log #3
  January 20, 2024 by Eld

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  #devlog, #design

  So for this devlog, I wanted to go back to early days of SOAR. The pdf you're able to read is VERY different from how SOAR worked earlier. SOAR came to be around like, 3 years ago at this point, at th... Continue reading

  
• SOAR: Dev Log #2
  January 13, 2024 by Eld

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  #devlog

  As promised in my last devlog (also we're trying a new format here for this post apparently it works better) lets talk about game design decisions I took for SOAR. Since it is the most "finished" aspe... Continue reading
• Public Playtest V02 Launch !
  January 11, 2024 by Eld

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  #update

  Its been close to like, a week since I launched SOAR, we are nearing the 300 page views and the 100 download threshold ! Wowie ! I've been giving some stuff some thought, and got some feedback on some... Continue reading
• SOAR: Dev Log #1
  January 07, 2024 by Eld

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  #Dev Log

  Hey ! So since this is my first project I figured I'd try my hand at these, so here's a general Dev Log thing where I just talk about SOAR and what went by since last time. First of all, while it may... Continue reading
• SOAR Public Playtest V01.5 Update !
  January 05, 2024 by Eld

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  #update

  Hey folks, second day of SOARING today heh ? I've done some cleanup on the pdf and added two more styles "by accident" after listening to music from Kurohyou. Changelog is also in the pdf itself, but... Continue reading

  
• Public Playtest V01
  January 05, 2024 by Eld

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  Hey ! What’s up ! I don’t know how to start these, this is my first public playtest for a completely new system I'm making. It's inspired by Beat’Em Ups, Crime shows and all of that, you can pro... Continue reading