Scaldcrow Stories
Frights and Fables: Traps, Wards, and Sigils
When claws scrape too near and shadows press upon you from all sides, it is not bravery nor strength, but cleverness that may fend off the impending doom.
Read MoreMazes & Mondays: Festivals of the Unknown
Festivals are windows into the hearts of a culture. They reveal what its people value, how they interpret the world, and how they celebrate or confront their struggles. For Game Masters, designing unique festivals for primitive or savage cultures can add depth and intrigue to their campaigns.
Read MoreFrights and Fables: The Path of the Stalker
To hunt the living is a task demanding cunning and patience, but to pursue what lies beyond the veil of life itself—that is an endeavor most macabre.
Read MoreMazes & Mondays: Sword, Sorcery, Survive!
Low fantasy campaigns immerse players in a world where the stakes are personal, the resources are scarce, and even the mightiest heroes are just fragile beings struggling to endure.
Read MoreFrights and Fables: Weathered Warnings
For, in the great expanse of unfeeling skies and rolling tides, nature itself is not always the impartial observer we’d like to believe. No, my friends, it conspires with darkness, whispering dreadful portents in the howl of a gale, the crackle of distant thunder, or the dim glow of a crimson moon.
Read MoreMazes & Mondays: Unfortunate Side Quests
Every game master has been there. You carefully craft a dramatic storyline, and then one innocuous side quest derails everything.
Read MoreFrights and Fables: Human Horrors
For beneath the thin veneer of civility lies the darkest creature of all—the human. No eldritch horror can match the cruelty of a soul corrupted by desperation, malice, or the cold calculation of one who has abandoned all morality. Welcome to the realm of human horrors…
Read MoreMazes & Mondays: The Laughing Wizard
Every campaign needs a villain to remember, and the Laughing Wizard delivers on every front. Equal parts hilarity and horror, this character defies expectations, unnerving players while keeping them engaged.
Read MoreFiends along the Crooked Edge
These are not horrors of fang and claw alone, but of forms beyond comprehension, their existence braided thickly into the fabric of dreams, fears, and fractured reality.
Read MoreMazes & Mondays: Accidental Apocalypse…
That labyrinthine cradle of peril, where adventurers tread lightly, and peril laughs in the shadows. Yet, so often, dungeons are relegated to being little more than static arenas, motionless tombs awaiting their inevitable plundering.
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