Travih Olrin – A Dangerous NPC With a Frying Pan
This Sunday, for the first time ever, my daughter will have companions on her quest. As such, I am revamping the adventure I created for her into something a little more well rounded. As such, I get to actually create NPCs before hand, not on the fly as I have previously done. So for one […]
Carwennan – The Shadow Blade
Carnwennan – Dagger of Un-Sidhe According to Welsh mythology, Carnwennan was the dagger of Arthur and allowed him to be cloaked in shadows when drawn. Carnwennan is unique as it only appears (in name) in the Welsh myths surrounding Arthur. While not named it is assumed that Carnwennan is the dagger Arthur used to kill […]
Sweetening the Pirate Booty
Tenkar, over at Tenker’s Tavern is having a contest to win a free .pdf copy of The Razor Coast for Swords & Wizardry. Well I’m going to sweeten the pot a little on this one and hope no one kills me in the process. If you go over to Tenkar’s and enter the contest repost your pirate […]
A Quick Note on Defense over AC
I was asked over on Facebook (where I also posted a link to this blog) about the Defense bonus listed with the Fleet Engineer class I posted earlier today. The question was basically in regards to how a class-based defense bonus was static, unlike armor class bonuses which can improve as the character gets better armor. […]
Space, the final frontier …
In honor of Star Trek into the Darkness opening in theaters today I have decided to forgo my normal Celtic/Gaelic/Welsh theme and instead honor the greatest Sci-Fi franchise ever. I’m also hoping that others will take up the call of this post and develop other classes, races, weapons and such using the OSR rules of the world’s […]
Slaugh Preview – Creatures of Eir
Irish and Scottish legend are full of interesting creatures and monsters that are often times ignored for the trolls and goblins of Northern and Eastern Europe. One of the goals of Genius Loci is to make these types of monsters more known to the OSR community (a mostly likely redundant cause as someone else has […]