I follow a lot of RPG-related blogs and people who talk about RPG-related things on G+. And a lot of those blogs and/or RPG-related-things-talking people have projects they’re working on (or have at least worked on at one point or another) that excite me. Here’s a list of awesome upcoming things that I’m excited for (and you should be too), and please comment if there are things I’ve obviously missed.
They arrived through the rifts which caused the first fadings – Skyggendi – towering colossi who came from the realm of shadow. They brought with them dusk and war, and where they fell, entire civilizations were built around them.
Awhile back I created what I called a Random Fey Generator. Though at the time I created it I received a lot of positive feedback, I’ve become less satisfied with it as time’s gone by for several reasons. So it’s time for a change. Below is my new “Procedurally Generated Fey” table.
After years of digging in graveyards, Necro-Engineers have become quite adept at sawing through bones, sewing flesh together, and attaching all of this to each other through the clever use of gears, screws, staples, and thread. They have departed from the traditional realm of necromancy, in favor of a hands-on “crafting” approach to their magic. Experts in seamsters’ kits, they use a combination of masterful Necromancy and crafty engineering to imbue dead flesh and bone with a supernatural unlife, creating terrifying minions. With these minions under their control, Necro-Engineers can chill in the background, allowing their horrible abominations to handle whatever messes present themselves, wading in only when battlefield wounds need a bit of “touching up.”
I’ve read through Maze of the Blue Medusa (from now on, MotBM) three times now. I would sit here and tell you how amazing this book is, how it is one of the finest RPG products ever produced, and how I can’t wait to run it. However if you’re even remotely connected to the RPG blogging community, you’ve already heard all that. Multiple people have already said it, and nothing I say would contribute anything new to that particular conversation. So I’m not going to talk about how good it is (which it is! Seriously, Buy it Now. Read it. I’ll still be here when you’re done.) – I’m going to talk about how important it is. And it may be the most important book ever produced for an RPG game. And it all comes down to personality, methodology, and ethics.
In part of my ongoing series to revitalize and reshape the fey, I’ve come up with a table for generating fey appearances. Up until two days ago, this was a hand-written table that I’ve had taped to the inside cover of my primary campaign notebook for several years now. I decided it was time to update it, and in the process, I may as well digitize it (for future-proofing).
The following excerpts are from the journal of Jason Canderman, of the eight-man Canderman-Dodder Expedition, which was documenting the newly-discovered ruins of an ancient Hithan pyramid. This journal was found by a group of nine explorers (three of whom met their fate later by the same creatures described within). Based on the following excerpts, we recommend bringing a full regimen of prepared soldiers before the next expedition is attempted.
Coiled beneath the stones and brush, it waits. It hears voices approaching – high-pitched, playful voices. Voices it recognizes as younglings from the community down the river. It opens its beak, pointed tongue running along the edge of its sharp lips. It knows it is in a bad position to strike, but cannot risk moving now, as the voices are close now, and would hear the stones above it shifting. It feels excitement welling – it hasn’t eaten in a week, since eating the meat off the bones of a deer, and fresh man-meat is always preferable to deer. The voices are only a few feet away now, voices filled with joy and glee, unaware of what lies beneath the stones they play atop…
I am a little late to the party on this one. I purchased this module based on Bryce Lynch’s review. I’ve read straight through it multiple times now, like a favorite novel. I ordered the physical copy as well as the digital – while awaiting the physical copy, I read the pdf on my phone, on my kindle, on my Nexus, and on my laptop. Then when the book arrived, I took it on vacation and read it multiple times. I just can’t stop reading it. It’s like traditional fantasy D&D meets Lovecraft meets Lewis and Clark meets the most epicly-worded-yet-simply-spun beautiful prose I’ve ever read in my life.
As a GM, what/who is your favorite BBEG you’ve ever created? That did the BBEG do that made it so interesting? And how did the players feel/react? Here’s mine.