As the fire burned higher, a shadow flickered where none should have been. Looming toward the camp, it silently observed the sleeping forms arranged on the far side of the fire pit. Turning toward the one who had summoned it, it slowly drew a single word in the soft sand… The shadowy remnants of once-great […]
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Most adventurers know the sound of a wild boar rustling through the underbrush. But when the boar turn out to be the underbrush, very few are prepared for the surprise. [previously] __ These huge porcine creatures are often thought to be only a rumor. They have never been sighted outside of the fey realms, where
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(Illustration by Chris McFann) It’s raining drakes! Find a whole slew of these fierce mini-dragons in the Book of Drakes. Masters Daigle and Welham can show you the way… __ Oftentimes, a drake’s curiosity about the world around it drives the creature to seek out experiences beyond the physical realms. The drake finds companions with
Wearing bronze helmets green with age and armor made of seashells, each scowling fish man passes its hand over an odd-looking, tube-like device at its hip attached by a line to a round metal shield. A magnetic whine is heard and each shield thrums with energy as each warrior draws a deadly looking trident and
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When we set out to design the Midgard Bestiary for the Adventure Game Engine (or AGE) system, we knew it was going to be a unique project from the start. The book represents not only the first stand-alone, third-party game supplement for the AGE System, it’s also the first time more than five years of
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The basic formula for fantasy roleplaying is simple: kick down doors, kill monsters and take their stuff. That’s how Jeff Tidball, AGE System Lead Developer at Green Ronin, calls it in the introduction to the new Midgard Bestiary: Volume 1 by Josh Jarman. Between its covers lurk some of the greatest monsters that Open Design
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(Art by Chris McFann) There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. —Hamlet, William Shakespeare Last week over on Dark Roads & Golden Hells, we hit a milestone: Thanks to new arrivals out here in the Great Beyond, we’re over 3/4 of the way (and a little
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(Illustration by Chris McFann) It’s raining drakes! Find a whole slew of these fierce mini-dragons in the Book of Drakes. Masters Daigle and Welham can show you the way… __ This miniature dragon, radiating near-blinding illumination, flies effortlessly toward a group of shambling zombies. The creature bursts into an improbably brighter ball of light, and
(Illustration by Chris McFann) It’s raining drakes! Find a whole slew of these fierce mini-dragons in the Book of Drakes. Masters Daigle and Welham can show you the way… __ An impossible combination of spider and dragon stares at you with its six eyes while its mandibles clack in hunger. Hundreds of bright red spiders
(Illustration by Chris McFann) There are places where the border between realities is thin, places where the energies of the inner planes can easily pour through: places like volcanoes and the Blood Caves. [previously] The Thing That Cuts The thinning of the veil trap and the healer’s touch trap need something, someone, to activate their
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Dusting the dirt and maggots from its skin, the corpse rises from the grave longing for the sweet kiss of a soulmate. [previously] __ An old gypsy remedy for killing strigoi: Dig out hearts; cut in two. Drive a nail into the forehead. Place clove of garlic on the tongue. Smear body with fat from
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Dusting the dirt and maggots from its skin, the corpse rises from the grave longing for the sweet kiss of a soul mate. [previously] __ If left alone with the comatose victim, the strigoi hastens to feast upon the brain. It dislocates its jaw and bites through the skull, working its way around the skull
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“Welcome, human, to my humble kobold bookshop! How may I serve you, O lord?” “You wish to know about drakes? Woe is me! I have nothing about drakes. My wares are worthless! I shall set fire to my wretched excuse for a shop and hurl myself off the…what’s that? My cousin Jiro sent you?” “Right.
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Sometimes the big book of adventures isn’t quite big enough. Sometimes a project gets a few items for the blog a little later than the editor can handle. When that happens, we know we have good stuff for a PDF supplement, and the one for Streets of Zobeck is a doozy. Yes, the mean streets
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(Illustration by Chris McFann) It’s not easy being a monster in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Over time, adventurers and monster hunters have a significant impact on monster populations, leaving only the strongest, luckiest, and most cunning to survive. Sometimes, though, monsters band together to increase their chances. They use their powers to complement one another
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One of the fun events at conventions like Gen Con and PaizoCon is Adam Daigle’s “Monster in an Hour” seminar, where he creates—you guessed it—a fully-statted and illustrated monster in an hour. Mr. Daigle was crowned King of the Monsters in 2009, and since then has contributed to the Bestiary 2 and many other projects.
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