Peculiar Places: Marrowgrim, the City of Eternal Slaves

Marrowgrim is a fairly affluent city located where the Sinhe River and Yellow Peaks nearly run along-side each other. It started off as a small mining town, growing fat off the gold from which the Yellow Peaks take their names, and the river allowed for convenient shipping. It didn’t take long for a bustling trading [...]

Peculiar Places: Maiden’s Watch

She lights up a candle for hope to be found
Captive and blind by the darkness around
Firm as a mountain, she never will mourn
Timeless, she waits for the break of dawn
-The Maiden’s Hymn
On the northeastern coasts, just below the frozen wastes of Nordica, a small town named Maiden’s Watch operates a small, but successful, port.
The town [...]

For King & Country

The PCs travel to the desert city of Baiyra and, thanks to their reputations, are welcomed as guests of the Sultan. Baiyra has long been famed for its peaceful streets, beautiful architecture, and exotic wares, but when the PCs arrive much of the city seems neglected. Crime is rife, buildings are in a state of [...]

Steal This Setting: Ravnica, Part 3

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Steal This Setting: Ravnica, Part 2

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Steal This Setting: Ravnica, Part 1

Today I’m posting the first in a 3-part series on using the Magic: the Gathering plane of Ravnica in RPGs. In this series I’ll also be giving some sample rules components for D&D 4th edition. At the end of the series, I’ll also release a PDF with all the stat blocks used in the series [...]

Friends & Foes: The Ibanovs

Lexandr Ibanov was the definition of a self-made man. His mother was a prostitute impregnated by a sailor, and he grew up destitute in the docks district of Kardiev. He took up odd jobs around the docks as a child and eventually became a sailor himself. By the age of thirty, Lexandr had made a [...]

Friends & Foes: The Renegade Reaper

Something odd happened in the city of Ling’hurak one day: reapers started dying. The hive never reacted to the metatons’ destructions, at least not in any way visible to the squatters living there, but a reaper’s unmoving shell is a bizarre and unforgettable sight in the city.
The culprit is a peculiar reaper designated 12-8-x, though [...]

Peculiar Places: The City of Devils

It sits like a massive red boil on the landscape; a huge, red dome visible from miles away. Malus Mundi, commonly known as The City of Devils.
Malus Mundi is quite literally a little bit of hell on Earth. At its heart lies a gate to hell, and infernal creatures come and go freely, allowing them [...]

Love at First Sight

While cleaning out his attic, a clerk named Arnett Quimby finds a large mirror. He decides to donate it to the city hall, placing it in the reception area. What he doesn’t know is that the mirror is home to a fae trickster which feeds on jealousy and love. It randomly chooses people who look [...]