Listening to Jason and the Argonauts in the background while I prep by ancient Greece reskin of Against the Cult of the Reptile God for my game tomorrow. Excited to see how Less is More does with an actual old-school adventure module.
Systems: #hyperborea #adnd #odnd #ForbiddenLands - really any #osr
Settings: #SwordAndSorcery #SwordAndPlanet #SwordAndSandal #Mesoamerican #AncientHistoy
Topics: #WorldBuilding #HexCrawl #DungeonDesign #sandboxing
#hyperborea #adnd #odnd #ForbiddenLands #osr #swordandsorcery #swordandplanet #swordandsandal #Mesoamerican #ancienthistoy #worldbuilding #hexcrawl #dungeondesign #sandboxing
Can't say I blame them.
(Illustration by T. Wyatt Nelson for Clark Ashton Smith's "The Testament of Athammaus", from the October 1932 number of Weird Tales. Encountered while reading Smith's Hyperborean Cycle -- riffs on Howard's Hyborean Age, though original to Smith -- for the fantasy setting)
I just finished my first story of '23, Melkart In The Land Of Blue Men, another tale of the towering Tyrian, the Bronze Age Battler. The big lug travels to ancient Cornwall this time in search of tin to make bronze only to tangle with a giant.
#fantasy #swordandsorcery #swordandsandal #epicfantasy #highfantasy
#fantasy #swordandsorcery #swordandsandal #epicfantasy #highfantasy
"SEE THE CHAMPION IN HIS GREATEST CHALLENGE YET!!"
Balibray was once a famous gladiator, perhaps the best of his generation. He fought until he was given an unwinnable fight. Now he fights for freedom.
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Art by Aleksandar Bozic
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