#epyllion

By Marissa Kelly

"Dragonia faces a threat we dragons have all but forgotten. Inside each of us are seeds of Darkness waiting to take root in doubt, anger, and sorrow. You and your fellow dragons— although small now—must protect Dragonia from the growing Darkness…and learn what it means to be a true friend." -- Tass the Gigantic, Councilmember

Epyllion is a PBTA tabletop role-playing game about young drakes who investigate rumors, solve problems, and discover the truth of a growing evil in Dragonia. While you play, you and your friends tell awesome stories, explore what it means to be a drake of Dragonia, and discover the value of friendship through magical, whimsical, and heartfelt adventures.

This easy-to-learn adventure game helps you tell the stories of a brave clutch of young dragons through a supportive yet simple system that promotes active listening, creativity, and cooperative play.

After being mistaken for Ganymeade by Neptune and dragged to the bottom of the sea (we're just gonna skim over the multiple levels of YIKES in that sentence), Leander is yeeted to dry land where he knocks on Hero's door. What Leander has somehow failed to notice is that he is stark-ass naked and covered in seaweed and sand; he looks like a sea monster.

Hero opens the door, takes one look at Leander, shrieks, and falls tail over teakettle over the other side of the bed before scrambling underneath it. The entire time Leander is yelling trying to assure her that it's actually him, and that hey, he's here anyway, why not have some fun?

FINALLY finished my ref sheet for my character in the DnD campaign I’m currently playing w/ @vincebirds and @crumblingtogether! we’re playing an Epyllion campaign, where ur a dragon in a dragon-run world. though we also did a lot of extra worldbuilding/shifting b/c we’re all having fun crafting a world together (dm-ing has been very loose and wild in our particular game, so it’s not just our dm Vince building the world on their own lmao)

November 13, 2018

My dnd squad saw this so y'all gotta see it too.

Epyllion. You are a dragon. Nuff said.

Chronicles of Darkness. Vampires, Werewolves, Mummies, Demons, and more as player characters. This is in a world with puny mortals as well.

Mutants and Masterminds: You are a Superhero. Anywhere from the street vigilantes (Daredevil, Punisher, the Question, Nightwing, Rorshach) all the way to Cosmic level heroes (Sentry, Adam Warlock, Silver Surfer, Dr. Strange, Firestorm), and everything in between (Superman, Flash, Wonder Woman, Zatanna, Iron Man, Nightcrawler, Rogue, Black Panther, Hellboy, etc.) You can wield any powers you can imagine.

Scion. You are a scion (child of a god). and can ascend to demigod, and even god, status. You can wield mythic powers and legendary relics.

@calliope-hesiod

You know what was deliciously ironic?

The fact that Belle didn’t get along with poetry or the Muse of Epic Poetry.

Well, neither of those things were quite facts.

Belle did enjoy poetry. Sometimes. She was picky about the poet. Too much was left up to interpretation more often than not, and while Belle liked debating the meaning of a passage in a book, poetry was...different because there really was more often than not, no right answer, and that drove her absolutely insane. For every line there was another line that might possibly contradict it. And they always stood alone, so there was nothing else to reference it to. 

Concerning Calliope, the situation was even more complicated. Belle didn’t want to not get along with the Muse of Epic Poetry. Hades was quite fond of her, and anyone that Hades liked was good in Belle’s book. (There were so few of them, really. Herself, Toulouse, Calliope...were really the only people coming to mind.) But, well, anyone would feel inferior to an original muse from the myths, who Homer evoked at the beginning of his epics. Who, in some life, had inspired those amazing stories which Belle had grown up reading and loving. 

Belle didn’t inspire much of anything in anyone. She was just a little Mundus. And there was a part of her that felt insecure, no matter how much she pushed it down and ignored it, about Hades and Calliope’s relationship. You know, the whole, past lovers, soulmates, True Love business. How was she supposed to compete with that? 

Not to mention she’d killed Calliope’s surrogate aunt-mentor-person. Right in front of Calliope’s eyes. There was that too.

All of these things pointed to Belle staying Very Far Away from the muse, but, she couldn’t do it any longer. She wouldn’t let herself. She had almost ten pages of scribbling, trying to decipher the poem that had come to her. She’d been given it--for whatever reason. Possibly just the Fates laughing at her. Lachesis probably thought it was particularly funny. She felt particularly hostile towards Belle for some reason, which was ridiculous because she was an all-powerful Fate. Anyways--

Belle knew she was useless and hopeless and, if she was going to (get someone else to) save Howl, she was going to need to talk to Calliope. So, she’d eventually wrestled her demons and her doubt and stolen Calliope’s number out of Hades’ phone, texting her and apologizing profusely before asking if they could meet up. It was important. 

Of course, because Calliope was so nice and lovely and really Belle’s twisted stomach feelings were so unfounded and why was she so insecure? -- she said yes and Belle had instructed her to one of the smaller quads on PrideU’s campus. Belle got there early and sat on a bench, her notes spilling out of her notebook (the notes from trying to free Hades were there also) and in her lap, her hand protectively resting over the cover, was Howl’s Christmas gift to her, which apparently, held her salvation.

After Darn causes a small explosion in his workshop, his mentor relegates him to a different task in preparation for the Vigil of Light, a major holiday celebrating dragonkind's victory over The Darkness.  He gathers his two clutchmates, Jagi and Luka, and the three of them head off for the dragon fortress/mining facility Brightstone.  Their mission is to check on the slowed shipments of Aerichus, a beautiful and precious ore.  What they uncover is something far deeper and more sinister than normal causes of delay, and it will take these young dragons' entire cunning and courage to surmount this strange antagonist. 

Hello, friends and fans!  Welcome to October, and our first month of being sponsored by Patrons like you!  As thanks, we’ve officially started posting our side campaign-- Epyllion, a game best described as “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic meets Flight Rising.”  We enjoy recording these in between our more intense games, and we hope you enjoy listening to them too!