Category: OSR

Cartographer’s Guide to the Creatures of Eira, Final Edition is Live!

The final edition of the Creature Guide is now available over at Drivethrurpg for $1.50 until January 2nd, after which it will be going up to its full price of $4.00. The creature guide features 45 (including several never seen before on the Genius Loci blog) monsters inspired pulp stories of the 1930s and the mythology and […]

Quick Note – Creature Guide, Eira and more

Yesterday I released the Creature Guide, a collection of monsters and creatures from this blog an a number of adventures (both published and unpublished). All said the book contains 43 monsters and comes in at 27 pages. So far the Guide is not doing to well and I am trying to figure out ways of […]

The Crawling Madness – Generic Creature for Any Setting

Work is extremely insane this time of year for me. From what I understand it wasn’t that bad before the internet but now with everyone ordering online working in a shipping service can be a bit crazy. Haven’t had much time of late for much, but I hope this one find everyone well … Crawling […]

Arkan Sonney – Creatures of Eira Preview

In Manx folklore, the Arkan Sonney is a fae-being that has the appearance of a white wild pig or boar with glowing red eyes. It is said that catching an Arkan Sonney alive will bring good luck to the person that caught it. In Eira the Arkan Sonney is a creature of the Night Lands […]

OSR

Quick Note – Into the Barrow I go

Last night during one of my frantic searches for a regular, but easy to schedule (read: wife won’t kill me) game I came across a Barrowmaze open table over at roll20. I’ve hear good things about Barrowmaze, and the open table, no commiment, drop in and out nature of this particular table intrigued me (or […]

Raceless Classes of Eira – The Blood Witch Revisited

The Blood Witch made its first (known) in play debut at last weekend’s MEPAcon. The gentleman who played her semed to have a good time through out the game with the character (if he is now reading this blog I must once again apologize for my daughter). After the game, however ,when I conducted a […]

Kickstarter Barking – Adventures in the East Mark Again!

The amazingly awesome looking, originally from Spain OSR fantasy game “Adventures in the East Mark” is in its final 26 hours. They’ve reached and surpassed their goal, but any show of support from the OSR community is bound to help with future releases. Go check it out ,the buy in for physical material is rather […]

Quick Note – Innsfjord just got bigger

Doing a lot of work on Innsfjord today. Total collected page count is currently 15 pages (including “cover” credits page and table of contents), that is pretty big considering I originally meant the entire thing to be 15 pages and I’m not yet close to done (see previous update). The Village of Innsfjord itself has […]

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 […]

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