Halloween Contest Winner!
The winner to the first annual Halloween contest is +Christopher Reed! Congrats Mister Reed, shoot me a line either here or at my e-mail with your drivethru/rpgnow e-mail and I will get that gift certificate sent out to you! Mister Reed’s winning entry is as follows: I once went on a haunted hayride where a […]
Generic Creature for any Setting (Request 2) – The Flesh (un)Relenting
This one comes courtesy of +Gennifer Bone from the RPG Design Network and was designed using Swords & Wizardry OSR ruleset. Flesh (un)Relenting Type: Outsider (Unique) Armor Class: 8 [11]Hit Dice 2 Attack: Attacks 1 Fear Spike (See Special) Save: 18 Move: 30 Special: Aversion, Encroachment, Fear Spike, Outsider Gate Challenge Level/XP: 3/60 The Flesh (un)Relenting […]
Generic Creature for any Setting (by request) The Chained
Requested by +Ronald Stepp over at +RPG Design Network. I hope this is what you were looking for, man! Enjoy! Update: I don’t know why but everything I copy/paste from Word is being presented in BOLD even when it sohuldn’t be. I’ve already contacted Google about this and I do apologize. The Chained“Some say that Eben […]
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 […]