To me, there’s something pleasingly incongruous in this image made available by the British Library. Taken from a work called “The Book of Ballads Ancient and Modern” it shows a lady in quite formal evening wear sighting a crossbow. Looks
Author: jfoster
The Polymorph Masquerade Ball
The vast and fertile plains of Etrya are covered in small and tiny city states. Once part of a larger empire, they are now independent dukes, lords, counts, princes and stadtholders. Locked into complicated family and political alliances the balance
Pointman, Hacker, Thief, Reviewer
Pointman Hacker Thief is a spy themed RPG by Mark Meredith of [http://dicemonkey.net]. Judging it by its cover, I was expecting to review a game that takes its cues from Bond, Bourne and Bristow. It’s not just motion media being
RPG Thinktank: Micro-Adventures & Settings
We return! Fresh from our summer holidays, the 6d6 Think Tank is thinking about micro-adventures. How small can you make a setting and it still provide enough inspiration and information to make a good game? Here’s some notes on one
Nightmares of the Dreamlands
The final piece of the Last Stand of the Rainbow Corps is the monsters that will bring about their downfall. In common with the player led theme of the adventure, the details of the nightmares are filled in by the
Safe Haven
The Zykomn Sea is a place of vicious storms and high winds. Fed by the desert heat of the continent, the weather is always hostile. This is except for the waters of the bay of Kruzidina, named for the town
Sierra Red the Cat Ninja Cleric
We had a good online demonstration game on Sunday for Sophia Brandt. Chris Tregenza ran one of the system’s introductory adventures. In honour of the occasion and because I can’t resist character creation, I put together a new character. As
The Blood Red Rose
Clyde de Rodez was a merchant of particular ambition. Not content with simply making a good profit, he wanted the largest ship. Going into debt, he commissioned a vast freighter from the royal dockyards. Completion of the ship became consuming
The Mural on the Wall of The Temple
In the most ancient city of Bryarham is the oldest known building in the world. The Great Temple of Ceremony is dedicated to Wyr the god of the harvest and is a vast stone structure, a perfect cube of fifteen
The Spherical City
In this far flung part of the world, magic is so strong that even topography can be warped. One such weirdness is the Spherical City Upon Isar. In the middle of a vast flat plain sits a crater that is
Hôtel d’Raccourci
No matter where it is in the world, all the Hôtel d’Raccourci have the same look. They structure is battered, the writing is faded and the architecture is unfashionable. Inside, they are even worse. The staff are unpleasant, poorly trained
The Swamp Chorus
After hearing that all the famous princesses had a chorus of animals to join in when they sung, Princess Eanchith became jealous. To quell her incessant whining her father indulged her. King Dulfa hired a wandering hedge wizard who set