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The Shadow of Yesterday

A pioneering RPG where characters are defined by their Keys and Secrets.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170521182641/http://crngames.com/the_shadow_of_yesterday/index

“About the game

The Shadow of Yesterday is pulpy romantic sword-and-sorcery at the end of one world and the beginning of the next. This game melds the best of standard fantasy role-playing and a hard-charging narrative engine. The revised version of this game, out now, focuses even more on mechanics that make your story zing off the table and into your imagination.

Set in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world where the creation of a moon has ravaged cultures and thrown the fate of the earth into question, TSOY is like a Weird Tales contribution written by Emily Bronte.” – CRN Games

Work

Licensing Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 (Unported) (part) Clinton R Nixon set up an HTML text-version of the game under this license., Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 (Unported) The wiki includes fan contributions and is under a more restrictive license. The whole game was originally under the more restrictive license: https://downloads.darkon.info/pdf/tsoy.pdf

Connections

CRN Games (publisher)
Clinton R Nixon (author,)
Indie Press Revolution (distributor,)
inspiration for Lady Blackbird

Genre Fantasy

Language English, Finnish, German, Spanish, Polish

Grouping Tabletop Roleplaying

Type Book (electronic)

Versions

Version	Format	Price	File	Explanation
TSOY Wiki	wiki	Free	—	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licensed
The Shadow of Yesterday	PDF	$14.99	—	Unknown license - I haven't seen it.
The Shadow of Yesterday: Main Rulebook	HTML	Free	—	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
The Shadow of Yesterday: Main Rulebook (crackmonkey.org) (version 0.9)	HTML	Free	—	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
The Shadow of Yesterday: The World of Near (crackmonkey.org) (version 0.3)	HTML	Free	—	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
The Solar System	HTML	Free	—	The engine behind TSOY. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
Solar System	HTML	Free	—	—