Yosano Studios

13/11/2025

We've got a pile of stuff written and ready to go for Coriolis as soon as the new 3rd Party License is released... and to get ahead of this (can you tell that we're keen?), we've got a pre-release page set up on Kickstarter for the first of them.

We can't go live until we know the exact terms of the license, but while we wait... the page is here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yosano/the-blood-tree?ref=86ol20

10/11/2025

All of the PDFs and books are now written up for The House of the Crescent Sun - the campaign book, the players' book, the system notes, the handouts... and they are now being edited (thanks Nicole!) so that we can start layout later this month.

Our promised delivery was March 2026, and we are way ahead of that, but we have slipped from our rather bullish goal of getting everything into edit by the end of October so we could go to print in December. The main reason for this was just that everything expanded.

In an effort to keep the main book under 140 pages, we've now expanded the System Notes (Ars, DnD, Mythras), each of which is currently over 50 pages. We were not expecting the total project length to be over 300 pages - but, here we are, and only a week or two behind schedule.

The next step, while the editing is ongoing, will be to send out a Backer Survey on Kickstarter, so that we can make sure that we have all of your information to fulfill the project. So, if you backed us on Kickstarter, watch your inbox!

02/10/2025

Normandy Tribunal Meetings: Reworked - a free resource for Ars Magica players: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/538101/normandy-tribunal-meetings-reworked-ars-magica?affiliate_id=3326525 (It's "Pay What You Want", so feel free to tip your barista - but really we just wanted to get this out to people to help them run Tribunal Meetings.)

Normandy Tribunal Meetings: Reworked (Ars Magica) - The seven-yearly Normandy Tribunal Meeting is a key event for magi within the Normandy Tribunal, and also a magnet for magi from surrounding lands. From Stonehenge and Hibernia, Rome and Provence, Rhine and the Alps, magi come to compete, trade, tr...

19/09/2025

The House of the Crescent Sun has hit its "More Handouts" stretch goal (yay!), and we've started planning out the handouts.

Surprisingly, we're suspecting that the single most useful handout might be a seating plan for a wedding.

Why is a seating plan for a feast so useful? Well.... that kind of needs a video....

(AndHouse of the Crescent Sun, if you haven't backed it already, is here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yosano/the-house-of-the-crescent-sun?ref=ccpb0m )

11/09/2025

The House of the Crescent Sun is now funded on Kickstarter 😁

A big thank you to all our backers, and to the folks at Atlas Games (Michelle Nephew, John Nephew, David Chart).

Now, let's see what stretch goals we can beat!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yosano/the-house-of-the-crescent-sun?ref=a07umo

04/09/2025

Hell's advance is not proclaimed by clouds of brimstone and floods of blood. Evil creeps close with soft smiles, in respectable raiment and whispering honeyed lies. The darkness offers what you desire. The first murders are subtle, the initial corruptions hidden in the shadows. The brimstone and blood will come later. But they will come. Step by step evil advances, until at last nobility is sundered, the holy altars lie abandoned, and the virtuous cower in silence. Then the land will drown in blood. Unless you can stand against the evil....

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The House of the Crescent Sun is a new medieval fantasy campaign of demonic conspiracies and corrupt nobles, set in a fantastical version of medieval France.

The players' characters establish a stronghold in a remote valley, but then uncover an insidious infernal conspiracy, and as evil engulfs the nearby city they must battle against the rising power of hell.

The House of the Crescent Sun balances set-piece adventures with a sandbox setting full of strategy an impactful choices. Each adventure gives the PCs chances to gain friends and enemies amongst their neighbours, and guidelines are included on down-time diplomacy between adventures - so when the forces of the infernal make their move then the characters' actions will determine how strong the darkness is, and who will stand with or against them. But in the end only the pure of heart may vanquish evil: the PCs will need more than just good dice rolls to save the bodies and souls of the people; in a setting where the demons are spreading and feeding on moral corruption purity is truly the greatest weapon against them.

Backers get: a main campaign book; a players' guide booklet; system notes on running for DnD 5e, Ars Magica or Mythras Imperative (with stat blocks, new magics, etc.); and digital handouts. The campaign book and players' book feature full-colour pages with all hand-drawn art, in a medieval illuminated manuscript style.

Skirmishes, assassinations, court politics, military strategy, thefts, diplomacy, sieges, and demonic conspiracies, in a campaign where choices matter and where demons are more insidious than any that the players have faced before.

Back it now on Kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yosano/the-house-of-the-crescent-sun?ref=ae7zjb

01/09/2025

Our first print RPG supplement is now out. "From Herry to Arran: An Ars Magica Setting" is a short booklet available on DriveThruRPG (there is also a PDF-only version, too.)

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/529179/from-herry-to-aran-an-ars-magica-setting?src=newest_recent&affiliate_id=3326525