Map Friday – Featuring MapForge
With the fever behind me I now find myself on the cusp of the weekend, that time when family and real world needs take precedence over the more ephemeral aspects of my life. There was a lot of ground I wanted to cover this week including a review of the Stranger Things D&D boxset, a […]
Tales of Eira – d6 Fantasy begins
When this blog first started back in 2012 it was subtitled “OSR with a Celtic Twist”. At the time much of my efforts were bent toward the creation, maintenance, and sharing of the loose OSR setting I used for the home game I ran for my daughter and her friends. This setting was called “Chronicles […]
Creatures of Eira – Hodekin (S&W and Next)
Hodekin The smell of offal and rotting meat filled the air as El dropped into the cavern from poacher shift. Dirty linen tents lay in disorganized mass around a large fire pit. El slipped and suppressed a gag as she stepped in something’s waste. If not for the offal she would have died, as it […]
The Fauth – A Creature of Eira for OSR & Next
Fauth Past the lochs the Fauth do live in villages of bone and seal skin. Their eyes burn like brimestones of maligned hate, for the sea, lakes and rivers were once and no longer theirs. Type: Mortal, Monstrous Hit Dice: 2+2 Armor Class: 6[13] Attacks: 2 Claws (1d4+2), Weapon (1d6 + 2 or 1d8+2) Saving […]
Creatures of Eira – Spider Cultist
Spider Cultist “I’ll never understand men who give their souls over to the Gods of the Outside,” El whispered as she crouched at the edge of the hole high in the temple wall. “What would drive someone to such …abomination?” Type: Mortal Hit Dice: 2+2 Armor Class: 6[13] Attacks: Weapon (Dagger 1d4 + Poison) Saving […]
Creatures of Eira Preview – The Alp-Luachra
Alp-Luachra El watched in fascination as the small newt-like creature slid from the dark waters of the nearby river and sped to the sleeping Rock. Up his chest it went toward the large Highlander’s open mouth. At the last second El pointed a finger and magic sundered the creature. Type: Fae, Lesser Hit Dice: <1 […]
Creatures of Eira Preview – The Knuckler
Knuckler We pitched camp by loch late in the day. I was unlucky and took third watch. I sat, by the fire, watching the dark waters when I saw it, the giant wyrm, glittering silver in the moonlight, bringing forth from the waters, great wings spreading. Tis a beautiful sight, one that still brings me […]
Quick Note – A sequel and an all new adventure
“Helena’s Gauntlet”, the Edge of Space adventure that I’ve been working on for the last several months is going well. While the Sword of Hathor the Confederation ship from “Horus Adrift” makes an appearance in “Helena’s Gauntlet” the crew and members of the that ship are not the focus of the adventure. However, I had […]
Quick Note – Health Management and Gambling in Eira
As progress on Eira continues I have been contemplating a slight but significant change to how I approach character creation, or to be more specific character health. When Eira was first conceived all classes used a single d6 with a positive or negative modifier for their health. Pixie Tricksters for instance were d6 – 2 […]
Raceless Classes of Eira – The Prodigal
Below is the final raceless class for the Eira Setting and joins the other two raceless classes that have come before it. Originally, the Prodigal went by the name “Wanderer” and was the only race-based class for the dropped “Changeling” race. The Changeling was dropped as a race when it was decided to make the […]