Quick Note – Innfjord update
Design of Innfjord has mainly moved away from the town and over toward the wilderness area and the Forest Ruins. However, due to some extremely good and timely advice from a reader I’ve been slowly adjusting Innfjord to make it more organic feeling and the NPC in it to being less cut-out for a referee […]
Quick Note – Roll for Initiative
A week ago I was playing +Justin Halliday ‘s Hero Kids (Rats in the Basement adventure) with my daughter and our next door neighbors. For anyone who doesn’t know “Rats in the Basement” is a really combat heavy short adventure that is more or less designed to introduce kids to the game. In our case it wasn’t […]
Short Review – D101 Games “Tomb of the Necromancers”
It is already obvious that I am a huge fan of D101 Games “Crypts & Things” line, given my love of all things Howard. So it was with squeals of joy when I discovered their newest adventure “Tomb of the Necromancers” by +Paul Mitchener. Of course this lead to a bit of fun over here […]
Three Generic Creatures for Any Setting and a Halloween Contest!
This weekend I took my family to our favorite haunted hayride, one that I typically gush about every year. This year, despite the 4 hour wait (which was off-set by an excellent metal band, roaring bonfire and some wicked cool Klingon fire dancing!) , I must once again gush and more so than ever before. […]
Quick Note – History Makes the Greatest Dungeons
The following link leads to one of the inspirations for one of the “dungeons” in Innfjord. The Mithraeum of San Clemente, Rome Remember Innsfjord features: – 5 level Lighthouse – 3 Level Cave System under the Lighthouse – 2 Level Crypt under the Temple of Balance (what is it with me and evil crypts under neutral temples?) – […]
Quick Note – Tomb of the Necromancers is live!
For real this time! D101 Games, the guys who released the great Crypt & Things low Fantasy OSR take on the Swords & Wizardry game have released an adventure just in time for Halloween for Swords & Wizardry.Tomb of the Necromancers is a mid-level adventure for 4-6 characters and based on my quick flip through […]
Quick Note – MEPAcon in 2 Weeks
Just a quick reminder to everyone out there! MEPAcon is in 2 weeks, there are still a ton of open games and tables to be played. I’ll be running three tables myself; 2 Swords & Wizardry games (Grimmsgate and Nidhog’s Hall/Innfjord) and one Herokids game. I’m not it though a wide variety of games from […]
Unquiet Bodere – Generic Monster for any Setting
Technically speaking the Unquiet Bodere is one of the “new creatures” for my Lights over Innfjord adventure. However, I like him so much that I cannot wait to share him/ As always thoughts are welcomed. Enjoy! Unquiet Bodere Bodere Ramblings AC 6 5 HD 2+! 1 MV N/A 60′ Flying ATK N/A 1 touch, Mad […]
Preview of My Next Adventure – Innsfjord
Below is a preview of the Village of Innsfjord from my upcoming adventure “Lights over Innsfjord”. I haven’t included the sketch of the town map, and as is obviously shown below a few of the entries have been deleted for this post to keep some surprise. All in all the twon has 12 named locations and […]
Quick note: Dracolich!
Back during the 30 day challenge I mentioned that my favorite undead was a dracolich and it seems that WotC either heard me or it is just a coincidence, because today they released “Vault of the Dracolich” over at the various onebookshelf sites. From Drivethrurpg Deep in the forest of Cormanthor lies the hoard of […]