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Year of the Worm, 1356 Dale Reckoning. Chapter I Tempus God of War The Foehammer 1. Marshal’s Dawn Boinn Hawklin got out of bed before dawn, offered prayers to no gods, no Powers, no saints, nor any demons. He did not don armor today as it was not practical to do so. He afixed the...

Alright, 5e is coming and I have a concept (http://githyankidiaspora.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/daydreaming-about-a-hexcrawl/): ___________________________________________________________________ Your maps are a thousand years out of date as you make your way to the surface… It is one thousand...

This is a play-by-post game that we are playing over at the campaign's site at the Obsidian Portal. After the first week, I thought it was coming along really well, so we're sharing it here. GM: Chapter I 5th of Elient, Year of the Prince, 1357, Dale Reckoning The Dalelands are still...

The Valiance Corporation started out as the humble Valiance Arms & Mercantile Company with nothing but 3 pre-slipstream technology old-fashioned rocket ships delivering goods and services to the space colonies all over the Vestal system. How far we've grown together. Now our slipstream-capable...

"When the Great Horned One takes you in the night it does not kill you. When the Great Horned One takes you, you were dead already. You did not know it yet." - words carved into monolith known as The Finger near Copperwood Mouse Guard Archives, Spring, 1153 Death's Wings, Part I Snow...

All art is by Storn A. Cook, who plays Kendrick and is talented enough to have done 3/4's of these sketches at the table. First thing's first, I'm a player character. I'm not a character in a fantasy book and though me and those other fictions have some in common, there's tons that is just...

"His "holy" sites are bloodstained rocks in dark corners of the wilderness. Some include a single, jagged chunk of rock thrusting from the ground and scrawled with crude paintings and blistering curses smeared in blood and feces." - Demonomicon of Iggwilv: Yeenoghu, Demon Prince of the...

My roommate, Bret, is Dungeon Mastering a game of D&D and hit us with this one sheet that has inspired all manner of awesome chargen: Once the characters were made and we'd fleshed out the world between us a bit, he hit us with this bit of awesome: And my man, Storn drew up the following as...

I thought I would grab some pictures of the various kings from WotC's Character Portrait site and write a few sentences about each. Thought it'd be fun to share. Comments, ideas on statting them out and further thoughts are welcome. The Dragon has waged war on the 7 Dwarven Kings for nearly a...

Those who had broken into heaven and those who had broken out of hell were set aside by the Gods and Goddesses. An adventuring caste was created for these divine thieves and troublemakers. This brings us to demons. First a demon will possess a mortal. After festering in the mortal’s soul for...

The setting is inspired by pre-statehood Utah, the Desert Territory, in the early-mid nineteenth century. Picture a landscape of high mountains, icy rivers and cedar woods, falling away westward into scrublands, deserts, buttes and swells. The summer skies are heartbreaking blue, but the...

Two questions about the Samurai, Ninja and Courtier classes from OA: 1) Are they updated to 3.5 anywhere? 2) Are they OGL? Thanks.

I was thinking that Gestalt classes would work well for an oriental adventures setting. Mix traditional core classes with either Samurai, Courtier, Ninja or Shugenja classes. Anyone have any interesting uses for gestalt classes or tales of their use?

The Adventure: Little Pyramid is your home, a town on the border between Upper Rosetta, Lower Rosetta where the Norse hold law. The pyramid that gives the town its name is no bigger than an outhouse, has been worn away by time, said to be a general from Rosetta who was peppered with arrows...

Once upon a time the Cerebril was patrolled by great wolves. It was the wolves who kept the human's dead from wandering and nipped their heels, driving the herds of ghosts towards their final judgement. But now the wolves hunt the living and pay the dead no heed. It falls to the immortal Elves...

What is this? This is a writing exercise which will be written as if it were an adventure log. I will take the plot request of one of the first five posters who suggests a story direction. I will start the next post with the quote from the post that will be used as inspiration. Thus this...

#1 - I leave any game in which the out of game politicking is more intense and dynamic than the in-game politicking. #2 - Always pick up a dropped d4 off of the floor. Always. #3 - If you had a good time, thank your DM/GM/Storyteller/Seneschal and likewise when your players thank you, thank...

The Blood Wars end as Demons and Devils are shown that if they had focused their energies towards taking over the Planes, rather than fighting each other, the worlds would be theirs by now. Some digging and Divining uncovers the Blood Wars as a conspiracy wrought by a cabal of Good Gods just...

The City is a sprawl of War-inspired industry with all of the pre-War touches that made it a beautiful and mysterious place to live. There are thousands of places between abandoned alleys that aren’t on any tourist pamphlets, the secrets and glories that happen when pavement meets paranormal...

Anyone know a link to rules for Paladins as a PrC? Thanks.