While doing researching games played in ancient and Medieval India, I stumbled across what is apparently the earliest known list of games, dating to the 5th or 6th century B.C.!
While doing researching games played in ancient and Medieval India, I stumbled across what is apparently the earliest known list of games, dating to the 5th or 6th century B.C.!
Iä! Iä! CthulWho Fhtagn! Thanks to all 31 of the great people who have backed Skirmisher Publishing’s campaign for “The Call of CthulWho” and funded it 100% in just two days!
What could be more amusingly odd than Renaissance Faires, whose quirkiness starts with that extraneous “e” that they somehow need to have? This post contains some of the weird things, some truer to life than we might like to admit, that one might find at places of this sort …
Skirmisher Publishing is excited to announce that it has launched a Kickstarter campaign for “The Call of CthulWho,” a complete, self-standing, Mythos Punk RPG adventure!
Ahl are creatures who originate on an alternate plane of existence. The home of these creatures is pure black, where no light has ever reached. It is cold and anything that manages to find themselves in this dimension quickly succumb to the environment, dying a horrible, lonely death.
Official boons are very generic and this article includes some new and more exciting examples that apply to specific classes, races, backgrounds, and alignments.
New rules for age progression, be it the normal progression of time, the abnormal progression of time in another plane, or accelerated aging caused by a curse of other supernatural effect.
Charon is a Lich-like undead monster who dwells on the banks of the Styx in the underworld and is tasked with ferrying the souls of the dead from one side of the gloomy river to the other. His vessel is an ancient Egyptian-style funerary barge that is propelled by a half-dozen animated oars on each side.
Oversized scorpions are especially common in places that are warm, particularly areas with active volcanoes or other geological activity, and are almost omnipresent in subterranean locales.
Wands of the Fungal Lord are not crafted so much as they are grown by myconid sovereigns and half-mad druids in lightless caverns suffused with mystical darkness and swirling luminescent spores.
Following is a writeup and stats for an Adult Brown Dragon, one of the creatures that appears in Skirmisher Publishing’s sourcebook on "Men & Monsters of Ethiopia"!
While sand and dust are frequently blowing around the deserts and semi-arid farmlands of Aigyptos, a true sandstorm can rise up in the wake of otherwise regular bad weather, on its own, or as the result of potent magic, and can be quite dangerous.
Werehyenas are tough lycanthropes that are somewhat scrappy in appearance and who tend to keep to themselves, living either solitarily or in small, close-knit communities.
Skirmisher Publishing has launched a Kickstarter campaign for "Warning: Danger! A Children’s Guide to Mines & Unexploded Ordinance"!
From here you can get to any of the articles written by Clint Staples on Runequest for d-Infinity.
Spartan Hoplites are free-born heavy infantry soldiers who have been trained to fight in close formation and in conjunction with one another using long spears and large round hoplon shields and form the backbone of their nation’s armed forces.
This sturdy 6 lbs tome is made from interlocking brass plates with acid-etched High Dwarven text. Equal parts thaumaturgical treatise and practical spellbook, this book contains the foundational occult knowledge and spellcraft considered essential for Clan MakDruun’s arcanists, artisans, and priests.
Many adventures will lead a party of characters into the ruins of an ancient, or not so ancient, city! Here are some oddities designed to provide some interesting details or possible side-quests to your next scenario set in a place of this sort.
Skirmisher Publishing is pleased to announce the release of its “Maps for an Egyptian Tomb”!
Skirmisher Publishing is pleased to announce the release of its “Maps for the Creepy Old House”!