A few years ago, I had a post about Thieves' World, the old 1981 multi-system fantasy city setting from Chaosium. It was a boxed fantasy setting based on a multi-author fantasy anthology that was quite successful at the time. The original (now sadly out of print) had a collection of characters translated into all of … Continue reading Thieves’ World – Savage Worlds – Part II
What’s #RPGaDAY2025 ? See the details here. Day 22 - Ally Last year I finished up a campaign of the Black Hack set in the Lumberlands (DriveThruRPG / itch.io) campaign setting. It's a world roughly based on old North American lumberjack lore. Here's my old posts on the setting. Here's some of the NPCs I … Continue reading RPGaDAY2025 – Day 22 – Ally – NPCs of the Lumberlands
What’s #RPGaDAY2025 ? See the details here. Day 19 - Destiny One of my white whale RPGs that I've always wanted to run is a campaign of Luke Crane's Miseries & Misfortunes. Miseries & Misfortunes is a OSR-style game set in 1648 France. It's one of those games that's clearly born from a designer's obsession … Continue reading RPGaDAY2025 – Day 19 – Destiny – Shuffling off the Mortal Coil
What’s #RPGaDAY2025 ? See the details here. Day 18 - Sign A series of various non-verbal communications systems that might be found in a fantasy world. Dwarven Smith Runes Great dwarven smiths creating powerful or elaborate magic weapons very often leave a very subtle set of runes hidden carefully in the decoration. They relate the … Continue reading RPGaDAY2025 – Day 18 – Sign – Secret Codes & Glyphs
What’s #RPGaDAY2025 ? See the details here. Day 12 - Path For this prompt, I wanted to do something unique. However, the muses failed to deliver, and I couldn't think of anything, so I'm going go the obvious route: the secret occult history of the New Jersey PATH rapid-transit system. The Emperor of Sorrows Vs. … Continue reading RPGaDAY2025 – Day 12 – Path – Mystic Secrets of the New Jersey PATH system
What’s #RPGaDAY2025 ? See the details here. Day 11 - Flavour If you were hungry enough, what do traditional D&D monsters taste like? We're not eating anything sentient (for now…). Ankheg: Difficult to prepare, as the exoskeleton is quite tough to remove and there really isn't much meat. Tastes very much like lobster. Basilisk: Lean, … Continue reading RPGaDAY2025 – Day 11 – Flavour – A Monster Manual Cookbook
What’s #RPGaDAY2025 ? See the details here. Day 10 - Origin In Call of Cthulhu (and all of the Lovecraft RPGs) one of my favorite beings is a god called Ubbo-Sathla. It's not one of Lovecraft's creations, it comes from Clark Ashton Smith, specifically his short story Ubbo-Sathla. There, in the grey beginning of Earth, … Continue reading RPGaDAY2025 – Day 10 – Origin – Ubbo-Sathla, the Unbegotten Source
What’s #RPGaDAY2025 ? See the details here. Day 8 - Explore For an occasional Black Hack game, I use a little homebrew setting called the Undergloom. It's essentially the Underdark - a vast underground network of caverns and tunnels extending deep beneath the surface of the earth. It's full of fantastic underground empires and creatures. … Continue reading RPGaDAY2025 – Day 8 – Explore
What’s #RPGaDAY2025 ? See the details here. Day 5 - Ancient Pretty much every fantasy setting (and most other settings) has some kind of ancient civilization or lost age of miracles. This lost age serves as an endless source of gaming material - ruins to explore, powerful artifacts, bits of lore, etc. Examples The Hyborian … Continue reading RPGaDAY2025 – Day 5 – Ancient
What’s #RPGaDAY2025 ? See the details here. Day 4 - Message For this prompt, I thought I'd throw out some ideas for delivering messages in a fantasy world (specifically a D&D/OSR style world). Sending A Message by Arrow A message can be attached to a normal arrow, but this will interfere with its aerodynamic properties, … Continue reading RPGaDAY2025 – Day 4 – Message
Polyhedral Nonsense 