Splintered Godhood: Desire, Power & Twists

by Clinton Boomer

BREAK THE WORLD... and make it your own! That's the idea at the heart of Splintered Godhood, a one-night, improvisational cooperative horror role-playing game for 4 to 5 mature players and one storyteller where each player plays a role in weaving a cooperative story of inverted and interwoven layers of reality within which each player is touched by the caress of infinity and eternity. With a divine spark infusing their Flesh, Voice, Will, and Awareness, they can build and twist the worlds around them, touching and overlapping them to form a malleable shared universe. But one of the players isn't going to play fair, as unbeknownst to the others he or she takes on the roll of the Splintered Antigod, whose goal is to splinter and control every shards of divinity and reality in the game and bend the shared reality toward an apocalyptic apotheosis. Together, you will craft a dark, strange tale of adventure, betrayal & intrigue pulled from realms yet unborn. Desire, Power and Twists guide you into an exploration of strangeness -- both internal and external -- along with the discovery of high weirdness and mad truths, horror of the unknown, and transformation into something beyond merely human. You shall become the mythos, taking on the roles of elder entities as they quarrel, boiling up as nightmares across multiple worlds and reshaping the cosmos with each lurching step. With innovative storytelling mechanics, roles that can be tailored to tell virtually any story from the heroic to the horrible, and detailed play examples to walk you through, Splintered Godhood offers great replay value. Take a walk through the woven worlds and find an entirely new way to Make Your Game Legendary!

30 pages, Paperback

First published August 7, 2014

About the author

Clinton J. Boomer, known to his friends as ‘Booms,’ resides in the quaint, leafy, idyllic paradise of Macomb, Illinois, where he attended 4th grade through college. He began writing before the time of his own recollection, predominantly dictating stories to his ever-patient mother about fire-monsters and ice-monsters throwing children into garbage cans.

He began gaming with the 1993 release of Planescape, which shaped his Jr. High years, and he was first published professionally in the Ennie Award-winning Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting from Paizo Publishing after placing in the Final Four of Paizo’s inaugural RPG Superstar! Competition. He currently devotes a full 99.9% of his waking hours to thinking about fantasy-adventure in general or ninjas, more specifically.

Boomer is a writer, filmmaker, gamer and bartender; his short comedic films, the “D&D PHB PSAs,” have over 3600 subscribers on YouTube and and have been viewed more than a million & a half times. A member of the WereCabbages creative guild, a frequent freelance contributor to Rite Publishing, Sean K. Reynolds Games, Paizo Publishing, Reality Deviants Press, Zombie Sky Press and the Hellcrashers setting, his debut novel The Hole Behind Midnight was released in 2011. Daniel O’Brien, columnist for Cracked.com and contributor to the New York Times bestseller You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News called it “ … Raymond Chandler meets Douglas Adams by way of a fantasy nerd’s fever dream. And it’s AWESOME.”

Boomer is currently the happiest he has ever been in his whole life.