Here’s the next part of my Dark Sun conversion to Sword of Cepheus – the Merchant career. I've also included rules for trading. I was originally just going to create a quick merchant class, but I got to thinking as I read about the dynastic merchant houses in the Wanderer's Journal. For Tyr to trade … Continue reading Dark Sun for Sword of Cepheus: Part V – Merchants of Athas
Here's the next career for my Dark Sun conversion to Sword of Cepheus - the Gladiator. I pulled a lot of ideas from the Dark Sun: Complete Gladiator's Handbook Creating these careers is taking a little longer than I thought, but it is fun. Coming up with entries for the Mishap and Events tables really … Continue reading Dark Sun for Sword of Cepheus: Part IV – Gladiators
Here's the third part of my conversion of the AD&D Dark Sun setting to the 2d6/Cepheus Engine/Traveller based RPG Sword of Cepheus. This will cover the initial character creation process. I'll also create one career - Nomad - to start out with. Character Creation We'll be using the same basic rules as the Sword of Cepheus … Continue reading Dark Sun for Sword of Cepheus: Part III– Character Creation
Here's the second part of my Dark Sun conversion to the 2d6-based RPG Sword of Cepheus. This covers all of the PC races that players can choose from. Previously in this series I listed some desert survival rules. These are all based on the descriptions in the Dark Sun Rules Book, along with some ideas … Continue reading Dark Sun for Sword of Cepheus: Part II – Races of Athas
I've always been intrigued by the Dark Sun setting TSR put out for AD&D back in 1991. It's got a bleak, weird, post-apocalyptic quality to it. However, I've always thought AD&D wasn't really the right system for it. So I've decided to make my own version using The Sword of Cepheus, the Cepheus Engine-based fantasy … Continue reading Dark Sun for Sword of Cepheus: Part I – Desert Survival Rules
I just ran a one-shot of Mörk Borg, the Swedish OSR dark fantasy RPG that seems all the rage these days. It's a lot a fun, and has a dark heavy-metal album cover vibe to it. I used the Death Ziggurat hexcrawl adventure that's available for free on their site. Since I use pregens, I … Continue reading Mörk Borg: Fillable Character sheet
In 1981, Chaosium put out Thieves' World, a boxed set based on the series of fantasy anthologies by the same name. All of the books included stories by some of the most prominent fantasy authors of the 1980s. All of the stories were set in a shared universe, a fantasy city called Sanctuary. The Chaosium … Continue reading Thieves’ World – Savage Worlds – Part I
The Imperial sorcerers of old wove dark and terrible enchantments, crafted to wage their endless war. As the millennia went on, their spells grew ever more powerful, and ever more dangerous. Most of them have been lost to time, but fortune hunters and obsessed sorcerers constantly scour the broken, ancient battlefields of the Dispute, hoping … Continue reading Sword of Cepheus: Military-Grade Black Magic
I've been playing with Stellagama Publishing's Sword of Cepheus fantasy RPG. I wanted to make my own setting to try it out in, so this is what I've come up with: The Dispute A vast demilitarized frontier between two antique and dying empires. All of known human history is the war between the Empire Immemorial … Continue reading Into the Dispute: a Fantasy Sandbox World
I got to run my first Barbarians of Lemuria game tonight, using the Unholy Greyl adventure. To prepare, I took the character sheet someone posted on the old G+ site and made it fillable. I'm sharing it here. If you click on the blank area below "description or portrait" you should be able to import … Continue reading Barbarians of Lemuria – Fillable Character Sheet
Polyhedral Nonsense 