An old dirt road, now overrun with weeds and sickly vines, rises towards the ruined citadel. A grisly sight bars your way: a pair of bodies, secured to poles by long ropey vines. The wicked vines have wormed their way inside the bodies ‘ eyes, ears and mouths. To your horror, you realize the bodies …
This is a bit of a heads up post to all of our regular readers: things may slow down over here for a bit. Right now I’m fighting off a particularly persistent flu, hopefully not affiliated with the current global pandemic. I’m also dealing with a course of pretty corticosteroids for my chronic lung condition. …
And what’s that tune he’s always whistling? What’s he building in there? What’s he building in there? We have a right to know “What’s he building in there?”, Thomas Alan Waits, 1999 This article is an extension of an older piece, one that’s certainly served our table quite well in the past (and is available …
Centaurs are a race of wandering tribal nomads. They are most at home on rolling, verdant plains but are known to adapt to many types of environments all over the world. Most centaur tribes trace their ancestry back to the everlasting summer of Elfland, and indomitable centaur chargers are a common sight among the armies …
This week we’ve been updating old articles with various tweaks and fixes: all in all, 67 mistakes, blunders and problems have been excised from articles published in the last 6 or so months, starting from the module “The Other Side of the Coin” and finishing with last week’s NPC tracker sheets. That’s a total of …
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Big things are afoot in our weekly campaign. All currently active characters are at least level 5, and consequently have the clout and the means to acquire followers and monsters to fight for them. From the faerie followers granted to our halfling graverobber to the scribe hired by our street-thug bard, there’s a lot to …
“Tonight tonight, my plans I make, tomorrow tomorrow, the blood I take. The nobles, they’ll not win their game, for Krompleripskins is my name.” – mutterings of the Redcapped Hermit from Lonely Rock (since banished) Today I give you my version of the redcap! My group is traveling in the Elflands at the moment, the …
the bell, the bell it calls the bell, the bell its blistering roar when the night has fangs and the day despairs the bell, the bell brings warriors forth This week’s patron piece is a collaboration between Ville and myself. We try to spend a night writing together every few weeks, since it lets us …
This week we’ll finish our series of thematic playlists for fantasy RPGs with some backgrounds suitable for raiding, reaving and pillaging! This list a little more low-key than our boss battle one, and the themes are somewhat more outdoorsy than our dungeon crawling list, so I’ve found it perfect for travel backgrounds or such when …
Let us pray for Shelter so that those who left us behind may one day find their way home. Mothers are all important, and I found the DCC deity list a little lacking in protective and mothering goddesses. Enter Auranne, the Expectant, designed to fill the role of a simple deity providing succour to the …
