For Great Justice

Question: Probably too late to change public opinion, but since it's literally the only project that hasn't gotten its day in the limelight yet... what's in store for Asha?

I agree, I don't think Asha's going to be able to come back from the current 83-vote gulf between it and the frontrunner, but that doesn't mean it's not a great project. It just means fewer people are playing Yazata Scions right now than Tuatha (come on, guys! Yazata are awesome! Just ask the Eastern Promises crew!).

Asha has already gotten an edit and brush-up from us (jeez, like a year and half ago now?) so that it was at least in decent enough shape to be usable by our Yazata PCs, but it's still got a lot of holdover problems from the original writeup in Scion: Yazata. In no particular order, some things we'd like to do include:

• Fix the Amesha Spentas. You guys know the biggest problem boons - we already had a whole post about their issues. These three boons do exactly the same thing but cost escalating amounts of XP, and they unfairly prioritize some PC skillsets over others (in the name of religious appropriateness, but it still sucks mechanically). The original writeup actually didn't even write separate boons for the middle of the purview, and while this is a little better than the black hole of boredom in the published rules, it's not by much. We want to really focus up and make this part of the purview better in every way - more fair, more interesting, more cost-appropriate, and more exciting so players have a reason to want to invest in it.
• Work more with the idea of Asha. The purview's called Asha, and yet it somehow doesn't do a great job of getting that idea (truthful righteousness) across very well sometimes. We'd love for some of these boons to be more thematic and less blank crunchy. Which leads me to...
• Less boredom. ARGH, this is the most boring PSP in the universe, and that's the worst because the Yazata are interesting people with interesting powers, and these mechanics are letting them down in a big way! Players have complained that Asha's boons lack the stuntable awesomeness of some other PSPs despite their mechanical usefulness, so we're hoping to be able to do something to make them more of an eye-catching pantheon-specific candy that everybody wants. Which is what PSPs are supposed to be, after all.

That's really all there is to it. We want to go make it better. We're pretty embarrassed our first pass didn't do a better job of it, really.

Obviously there are fewer Yazata players out there than there are people interested in some other projects, and even those that do love their Persian Scions may have more at stake for an Ultimates or lesser gods project. But we hope we'll get to brush this little PSP up some day soon, so that the gods of the once-greatest empire in the world can be as awesome as they were clearly meant to be.