The Earthquaker’s Gauntlets Made for fists the size of oxen, this pair of gauntlets were left on Nyione as the god Goesis fled from the Thunder War. As the rock god escaped this plane, they dropped anything that would slow
Category: RPG World Building
City Settings – The Unknown Authority
The standing stone is three meters high and made of what appears to be a naturally occurring igneous rock. Nothing grows on it and animals tend to avoid it. When it speaks, it is alway correct. It is acting on
City Settings – The City of Ghosts
To keep Kethar bound requires a spirit binding spell so powerful that it has captured and bound all spirits from within five thousand miles of the stone to an area of just four miles around the stone. The spell did
City Settings – The Alexandria of the Astral Plane
The Astral Plane isn’t an actual place. It a transition that you pass through when moving between spaces and dimensions. Normally you transit too fast to notice it for more than a short thought. Even if you did pay attention
City Settings – A City of Two Scales
The master theurge of the Tower of Suhina surmises that the humans came to Ranthas via a powerful spell, though they don’t know if the gateways were sent to rescue these tiny people or was the cause of their worlds
City Settings – The Waiting City
The city rises up a shallow hillside from the estuary side docks and beach front but stops before the hill is crested. The houses are all prefabs of only five different models, arranged in a fixed grid pattern that pays
City Settings – Padmeir Upon Tortoise
The tortoise, called Ogan by the Keebra, moves at the speed of a human crawl and despite its size its footfall barely shakes the ground. The land behind Ogan is deeply carved by its footprints and the forests are left
RPG Blog Carnival – Literature and Books
This month’s RPG blog carnival is about literature and is hosted by Pitfalls and Pixies. Here are four books to inspire plots and problems for your RPGs. The Book of Blood Speech A textbook in black leather, it contains detailed instructions
A Carnival of Superstitions
The RPG Blog Carnival for October is about superstitions, so here are three little rituals. Thieves Lock Pick Murmur Lock picking is a quiet is an action that takes quiet, patience and a little luck. The thieves guild teaches its
Fantasy Apocalypse 5 : The Unstoppable Forest
Lord Rarder, The 4th Duke of Orindest was a petulant and egotistical young man. He became jealous of the other nobles with their mountainous or coastal estates. In particular Earl Brabant’s extravagant spending on building a new mountain tweaked Lord
Fantasy Apocalypse 4 : The Impotent Heroes
Adventures In A Doomed World The lava never stops. Rivers of thick, sticky, liquid rock stretch out for hundreds of miles from the Rift. The great forest of Salidour has been burned and the cities of men obliterated. As the
Fantasy Apocalypse 3 : The Ceaseless Slimes
The noble Knights of Gold brought down the mad lich witch Paubi after a year long campaign. The lich’s designs were undone, but their undead army continued. It came to halt in the middle of the countryside where it stood,