Without looking too hard, you can find tons of adventures teeming with interesting encounters all of which have built-in conflict. They have monsters to fight, devious traps to disarm, and cunning puzzles to solve. But what about the other encounters in the campaign world? What about the traveler the heroes met on the road, the […]
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“The Robber Bridegroom” is hands down my favorite tale recorded by the brothers Grimm. It has beauty, murder, mystery, magic, terror, and revenge. The characters dance wildly in my imagination each time I read it, and the settings frighten me more than any horror film could as my imagination fills it with evil and terror.
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The White Necromancer is all my son’s fault! You see, my son plays in our weekly Pathfinder games and (says the proud father) is an extremely good, knowledgeable player. In fact, I often bounce ideas off him when I am working on freelance projects. But, I digress …. My son was really intrigued with the idea of playing
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The alchemists and astronomers who associate the green planet Asaph with air, sea, and spirits are correct. Those who find serenity in its pleasant face are not. Asaph is a world of raw, tumultuous nature and primal magic, covered in roiling seas and raging storms. Such is its intensity that even the dead cannot dependably
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Kindred and Wings Philippa Ballantine 390 pages, Pyr Paperback, $13.50 ISBN 978-1616147792 On the back of the dragon Wahirangi, Finn the Fox flees the world he has known. As he sets out to find the brother he never knew existed, he still holds in his heart the memory of the Hunter. He has denied his
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With their punishing climate and near-total lack of precious water, deserts are one of the most hostile environments in existence. Those who spend enough time among the desert sands know that some monsters can thrive even in these hellish wastes. Such creatures are feared and respected by wise adventurers, for they are invariably predatory and
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Midgard Summer continues with Gravebinder’s Daughter. When we sat down to begin, I told everyone they had to play someone different than they had last game so that they could stretch their roleplaying muscles and experience more of the flavor that is Midgard. Jiro’s player from last time scoffed because he wanted to play a
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The yellow planet Temperos is a testament to the inscrutability of the gods. Who can say what brought Gades the Titan to this dusty, primitive world millennia ago? And who can even begin to explain his carnal rampage through the planet’s unsuspecting megafauna? And if some sense of responsibility motivated him to birth a horde
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The Viceroy’s Monocle (The Storm Giants Trilogy, Vol. 2) James Stills 181 pages Paperback, $8.54 Ebook, $2.99 ISBN 978-1484874233 The Viceroy’s Monocle is the second book in a trilogy, and it serves as a good example of what can go wrong when you try to condense a really good and epic idea into a trilogy
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The gnolls of Midgard are a bloody and ferocious lot. These feats are designed to make gnoll player characters and nonplayer characters as terrifying and fierce as can be. Note that they are designed for and refer to gnolls, but they are appropriate for any savage warrior race (barbarians, orcs, ogres, trolls, goblins, and so
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“Indifference, to me, is the epitome of all evil.” ― Elie Wiesel We gamers like to dwell in worlds that differ greatly from our own. Perhaps this is because the world around us fails to make sense in the way the worlds on the pages of our books and in our mind’s eye can. Despite
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As part of the “Coolest Virtual Gen Con Project Ever,” Kobold freelancer Ben McFarland recorded the opening encounter of Grandmother’s Fire, an adventure out of the anthology, Tales of the Old Margreve. While his voice is a little rough—who are we kidding, he could do stand-in work for the Cryptkeeper—it seems that the table had
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The Brothers Grimm were two traveling brothers who collected and documented the many folk tales of their time and region, collecting over two hundred tales, each one with variations to further expand the material they compiled. Since then we have had several of the tales immortalized in pop culture, such as Cinderella and Snow White,
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The flat world of Midgard sits in the center of a vast ethereal ocean called the Celestial Sea. Dizzying wonders and unspeakable terrors await those travelers with the bravery and means to take a leap past Veles the World Serpent and into the starry void. From visiting other worlds barely visible in the night sky
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Midgard Icons presents some of the Midgard Campaign Setting’s major NPCs as icons for use in 13th Age, the new fantasy roleplaying game from Rob Heinsoo and Jonathan Tweet. Bring them into your 13th Age campaign; run 13th Age in the world of Midgard; or port the icon relationship rules into your system of choice.
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Master Pett’s Your Whispering Homunculus presents only the finest in British gaming. Indeed, you are not likely to find a more comprehensive assortment of miscellany anywhere. (So much more than just another bloke in a dress.) “Master, is your tale over?” “Cease your interruptions, slug-thing, or I’ll have you toasted over an open fire.” The
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