What Comes Next

This may have been our first book, but it won’t be our last! Find out what it’s next at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

Incursion 1.6 and Beyond

 How to build and run our own Incursions in The Ring

You’ve run your first Incursion, start to finish! And now the world is your sandbox. Find out how to write your own incursions at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

Transitioning to Incursion 1.6

What lies beyond the story? Here's a Handy Transition Guide to Session 3 of INTO THE RING. Here at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

The Incursion Session: Act by Act 1.5

One more and you’ve done it. Act by Act we walk you through how to tell the story with your friends. Session 3 of INTO THE RING is now available at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

Setting up for the Incursion Session 1.5

This is the final exam! You can do it! Find out how to set up your fifth Incursion Session for INTO THE RING. Here at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

The Deck of Fire used in 1.5 Act by Act

A Breakdown of the how the Deck of Fire is used in the fifth Incursion session for INTO THE RING is now available. Here at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

The Call to Adventure 1.5

And here it is, the climactic finale! Session 5 of INTO THE RING is now available! Here at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

Transitioning to Incursion 1.5

And now the final curtain! Here's a Handy Transition Guide to Session 3 of INTO THE RING. Here at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

The Incursion Session: Act by Act 1.4

80% of the way there! Act by Act we walk you through how to tell the story with your friends. Session 3 of INTO THE RING is now available at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

Setting up for the Incursion Session 1.4

You’re a grizzled veteran and may think nothing can surprise you. But find out how to set up your fourth Incursion Session for INTO THE RING. Here at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

The Deck of Fire used in 1.4 Act by Act

A Breakdown of the how the Deck of Fire is used in the fourth Incursion session for INTO THE RING is now available. Here at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

The Call to Adventure 1.4

Is the the end in sight? Not quite yet. But Session 4 of INTO THE RING is now available! Here at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

Transitioning to Incursion 1.4

Who’s telling now? Here's a Handy Transition Guide to Session 4 of INTO THE RING. Here at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

The Incursion Session: Act by Act 1.3

And here comes the goods again! Act by Act we walk you through how to tell the story with your friends. Session 3 of INTO THE RING is now available at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

Setting up for the Incursion Session 1.3

Third time is the charm? Find out how to set up your third Incursion Session for INTO THE RING. Here at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

The Deck of Fire used in 1.3 Act by Act

A Breakdown of the how the Deck of Fire is used in the third Incursion session for INTO THE RING is now available. Here at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

The Call to Adventure 1.3

You’ve made a horrible mistake, the call knows where you live! Session 3 of INTO THE RING is now available and it demands your attention! Here at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

Transitioning to Incursion 1.3

Hand off to the New Storyteller! Here's a Handy Transition Guide to Session 3 of INTO THE RING. Here at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

The Incursion Session: Act by Act 1.2

Here we go again! Act by Act we walk you through how to tell the story with your friends. Session 2 of INTO THE RING is now available at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

Setting up for the Incursion Session 1.2

You’ve done it once, but we won’t desert you. Find out how to set up your second Incursion Session for INTO THE RING. Here at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

The Deck of Fire used in 1.2 Act by Act

A Breakdown of the how the Deck of Fire is used in the second Incursion session for INTO THE RING is now available. Here at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

Call to Adventure 1.2

Before you were green, and untested. Now you are bloodied by experience. Time to head the call again, Session 2 of INTO THE RING is now available! Here at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

Transitioning to Incursion 1.2

You've played the first Session. It's time for somebody else to play the Storyteller role. Here's a Handy Transition Guide to go from Session 1 to 2 of INTO THE RING. Here at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

The Incursion Session: Act by Act 1.1

Every Blood Red Dreaming Incursion Book is a Story in 5 Parts. Act by Act we walk you through how to tell the story with your friends. Session 1 of INTO THE RING is now available at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

Setting up for the Incursion Session 1.1

Aardvark, Aardwolf, and Ape Productions (mind the Oxford comma) won't leave you in the dark. Find out how to set up your first Incursion Session for INTO THE RING. Here at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

The Deck of Fire used in 1.1 Act by Act

A Breakdown of the how the Deck of Fire is used in the first Incursion session for INTO THE RING is now available. Here at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

The Call to Adventure 1.1

Heed the Call to Adventure and become a Psychonaut! Or come learn the Role of the Storyteller, in the month long release party for INTO THE RING, the Blood Red Dreaming Incursion Book by Aardvark, Aardwolf, and Ape Productions. Here at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

Into the Ring Set up and Running a Game and Campaign

The Release Party page for the Blood Red Dreaming Incursion book: INTO THE RING now has the sections up for Setting up and Running a Game, Running an Ongoing Campaign, and a full list of the Deck of Fire for this first Incursion Book. Here at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/

• Setting up and Running a Game
• Running an Ongoing Campaign
• The Deck of Fire for Incursion 1

An Introduction to Blood Red Dreaming

So begins the Month Long Party for the Aardvark, Aardwolf, and Ape Productions release of the Blood Red Dreaming Incursion Book: INTO THE RING. Learn more here at https://professorharbinger.com/start-here/


Blood Red Dreaming is a Tabletop Role-Playing Game. If you've played other Tabletop RPGs, you'll be familiar with certain conventions of the games: multitudes of dice, character classes, experience points, storytelling by murder killing hosts of allegedly evil monsters. Well, Blood Red Dreaming doesn't do most of that, and what it does do it does very differently.


Gameplay Resolution is done with a deck of cards rather than with dice. A Player's Avatar in the Shadowlands can do whatever the player themselves is physically capable of doing. Anything beyond the capacity of the Player requires the expenditure of cards to accomplish. Attempts at success can be bolstered by points earned through activities in the real world, like a pen and paper Pokemon Go. Character death is not a major set back, with penalties being only that the player cannot participate directly for the remainder of the session. Stories last a single session, like an episode of a TV series. These sessions can and will be strung together to form a myth arc, but each session should be a complete story in itself.


Combat is no different that any other story/action resolution attempt. All conflict in broken down into Scenes and Phases to keep things rolling and prevent sixty seconds of in game combat to taken three four hour gaming sessions. Negotiations, or heists or research in a musty library are all viable grand finales to a session if handled well. Story points have mechanical value in the game's systems, and negative consquences and penalties can be purchased to gain short term advantage now- and players will know when they risk major consequences nearly all the time.


If You've Never Role Played Before


Learning Blood Red Dreaming will actually be easier if you've never played another Tabletop RPG before. All Roleplaying games are basically collective story telling games. Most RPGs forget this for a simple reason. Most RPGs were built from the old miniature war games where old men moved civil war figurines across meticulously created dioramas. All really cool stuff, but if you just want to tell an amazing story then the baggage of this origin story needs to go. So sit back and relax. Think of this as improv, the storyteller is both audience and movie director and also plays all the extras, while the players are the lead actors and sometimes the villains (more often than many players would admit in many games). The rest will become clear in short order, sit back and relax.

Into the RIng Release Schedule

Aardvark, Aardwolf, and Ape is proud to announce the release of our first Game Book. The Book is an Blood Red Dreaming Incursion Book: Into the Ring. The Book will be released into the Public Domain as with all of our releases. The release will start on May 1st, and will be released in a modular fashion across the whole of the Month of May.

Release Schedule

The Release Schedule for the Blood Red Dreaming Incursion Book: INTO THE RING, and you can find it HERE!

• https://archive.org/details/ReleaseScheduleIntoTheRing (and here)