It's finally here! Tailfeathers Academy of Magic is a game about playing students at a magical school. It's a game about learning magic and figuring out creative and cool ways to use your limited magical toolset to solve mysteries.

But that's not all: it also comes with Kazzam, a magical sport. With tactical combat, capture the flag, and neutral monsters that will attack both teams, this game has incredible depth. With many ways to score points and incredible character customization building on the foundations laid down in Strike!, this game will have you obsessed. You'll want to play against other players. You'll want to start a league!

Best of all? It's free! I want everyone to play this game. I can't hold it back from the world. This isn't some short little thing either - this is a fully featured game with lots of depth and crunch. There is a paid supplement called the GM's Toolkit if you want to support the game's development, and buying that will get you access to all the updates as they become available. Right now, Tailfeathers Academy of Magic has years 1 to 3, and buying the GM's Toolkit will get you years 4 and 5 when they are finished. Kazzam has levels 1 to 6, and the GM's Toolkit will get levels 7 to 10 when they are finished.

Download this game. Check it out. Tell your friends, and start playing!

Hey Strike! fans, things are busy here at Strike! HQ. I'm just typing this post to let you know all the things we're working on.

For Ariadne and Bob, we're just waiting on proofs to get the physical copies ready to go. Everything else is done.

The next big project is Tailfeathers, a magical school, with spells and potions and adorable little familiars. Tailfeathers is the first school we're publishing for Kazzam! Kazzam is a magical sport that combines Strike's tactical combat with some elements from capture the flag and neutral creeps like in Warcraft 3. We've been playtesting it for a while now, and it is so much fun. The matches are exciting and tense, with a ton of tactical depth. Just like Strike!, you'll be able to reskin Kazzam, so if you're not into the magical school setting, you can still play Kazzam. The sport is so good that I'm hoping to be able to have tournaments where we pit teams of players against one another.

Tailfeathers is also the first place you're going to see some of the changes that will be coming to Strike! when we eventually do a second edition, especially the new version of Roles. All the work I'm doing on other games is also feeding back into what the next edition of Strike! will look like.

I've also returned to work on a fun PvP Strike! scenario called Robbing Mr. Seagull, about two teams of criminals trying to pull off a heist at the same casino, the famous Pelican Hotel, run by the mobster "Bugsy" Seagull. The characters are all anthropomorphic animals like you'd see in Zootopia or Bojack Horseman. It's got a fun cast and a great hook. I had put it releasing the adventure on hold as I was making revisions to Team Conflict to improve that subsystem, and I thought that having that system working at its best was important. I'll be releasing the new and much improved Team Conflict rules along with Robbing Mr. Seagull sometime after the Tailfeathers release.

And finally, I've got a little game I'm working on inspired by a strange and vivid dream I had, called Hellrunners. Hellrunners exploit glitches in the metaphysical coding of the universe to get into and out of the afterlife to accomplish various missions. They are speedrunners breaking reality instead of video games.

If any of these sound interesting to you, let me know! Fan feedback absolutely can move things up and down the priority list. You can contact me through the contact page on this site, or catch me on Twitter @Jimbozig.

​I've hired Vel Mini, Paul "Ettin" Matijevic, Austin Ramsay, and Jason Pitre to write playsets to customize the game to other settings and genres.

And for fans of Strike!, I am also throwing in The Ogre, a pair of classes by Gabriel Butche. As The Ogre, you and a friend control two characters in one body. This is one of the most unique tactical combat classes in any RPG, and it's very fun to play

I've got Strike! and all its mini-expansions up on itch.io now. If you want to buy the PDF versions, and using the paypal links on this site is not your preference, now you have another option.

Strike!: https://jimbozig.itch.io/strike
Vehicles: https://jimbozig.itch.io/vehicles
The Rogue: https://jimbozig.itch.io/rogue
Trouble in Hogtown: https://jimbozig.itch.io/hogtown
Survival: https://jimbozig.itch.io/survival

And it's done! $800 to SickKids Foundation through me. There was also another $100 that was donated directly, bringing our total to $900. Thanks again to everyone who helped out!

Here are receipts for confirmation.

Hey, just posting to update everyone on how things are going so far with the fundraiser. As of now I've made $238USD from direct PDF sales on the website and $227USD from drivethru. In addition, I received $50CAD to donate along with the rest of the money. And one person donated $100 themselves.
So all together, we are around $750CAD! That's pretty great, I think! There is still time - you have just over a week before the end of the month to get in on this. Let's see if we can break $1000!
In case this is the first you're hearing about this fundraiser, you can buy PDFs on my website: www.strikerpg.com or you can buy physical books on DriveThruRPG here: goo.gl/bp8Q7s and all the money I receive will go to charity to help sick children like my daughter, who is stuck in the hospital this week for immunotherapy, which is really no fun.
Tell your friends to get in on this before it's too late!

As you may know, for the last year I have been on hiatus from working on Strike! because my daughter was diagnosed with cancer (stage 4 neuroblastoma) in January when she was 18 months old. Since then she has received impeccable care from The Hospital for Sick Children here in Toronto. The treatment has been going well so far, but there is still a significant risk of relapse, which is just the nature of high-risk neuroblastoma. I'm posting about this now because I want to repay the hospital for everything they have done for us.

To that end, I will be donating 100% of my portion of all sales on Strike! products in the month of November to the SickKids Foundation supporting the hospital. If you were thinking about buying Strike!, there has never been a better time to do so - you get the game and your money goes to helping sick children, like my daughter. If you already have the game, buy copies for your friends! Christmas is coming up soon, after all.

My goal in this promotion is to make things as easy as possible for you as a customer, so all you have to do is buy the game via the paypal links here on the website (for PDFs) or via DriveThruRPG (for PDFs and physical books), and I will handle the rest. If you would prefer to donate directly to SickKids Foundation yourself, to a children's hospital local to you, or to a kids cancer charity, you can do that, too! Just make the donation in the month of November and email a photo or screenshot of your receipt to me at jimbozig@hotmail.com, and I will send you PDFs and/or discount codes up to the value of your donation (note that I cannot discount a physical book 100% because DriveThru needs to take a cut for printing costs). If you have a charity in mind and aren't sure if it meets my criteria, just send me an email and I'll let you know.

Pledge details: Yes, this will absolutely be 100% of the money coming to me that goes to the charity. I have no control over the portion that goes to Paypal or DriveThru, but every cent I get will go to SickKids Foundation. My donation will happen in early December - it takes a few days to get the money from Drivethru into my Paypal and from Paypal into my bank account. I will make an update on the website December 2nd with a full accounting of the total.

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