Posts Tagged ‘Sword and Sorcery’
Mazes & Mondays: Demon at Skarnclaw
The Demon at Skarnclaw Ah. Sit. Warm your hands at the fire, for the tale I have for you today comes crawling out of the cold — out of the windswept dark where the old clans died screaming and the ruins still remember their names. Welcome back, my dear friends, to another session of Mazes…
Read MoreMazes & Mondays: 10 Races of Myth
Every game master knows the moment. A player opens the core rulebook, scans the same worn-out ancestry list, and lets out a long sigh. Another elf. Another dwarf. Another half-orc named something that ends in “-gorn.” The classics have their place, but the myths of Greece, Japan, Scotland, Ireland, and the Anglo-Saxon world are packed with beings far stranger and more playable than the standard lineup.
Read MoreMazes & Mondays: 10 Epic Swords of Myth
Some weapons are just tools. Others become legends. Across centuries of myth, epic, and storytelling, a handful of swords have earned names, personalities, and reputations that outlive the heroes who wielded them. These blades cut through more than flesh — they cut through history, shaping how we imagine courage, kingship, and destiny.
Read MoreMazes & Mondays: Speak the Law of Magic
Think on it. If a wizard may do anything, then nothing he does matters. There is no tension in a spell that never fails, no awe in a power that costs nothing, no dread in a curse that carries no price. The moment magic can solve every problem for free, the story goes limp in your hands like a snuffed wick.
Read MoreMazes & Mondays: Under the Bone Totem
Years ago, one of my players proudly informed me that he’d learned everything there was to know about wilderness survival from fantasy roleplaying games.
Read MoreMazes & Mondays: Heroes are a Fool’s Debt
The tavern owner nailed their unpaid bill to the wall as a memorial. Years later, that yellowed scrap of parchment was still hanging there, gathering smoke. My players thought it was the funniest thing they’d ever seen.
The tavern owner did not.
Read MoreMazes & Mondays: Most Terrifying Monster
Then they spent the next six months trying to catch a jewelry merchant, name Clyde. He was not possessed by a Rune God, nor a jeweler secretly summoning horrors from beyond the Doomgate. He was just a jeweler, an unpleasant little man who a hand cart with a bell. After that figured out that if he paid them something, they wouldn’t question the value of the rest.
Read MoreMazes & Mondays: Economy of Apocalypse
The Rune Gods want civilization in ashes. The dead refuse the courtesy of staying buried. Cockatrices leave gardens full of screaming statuary. Whole provinces sit one bad cult meeting away from becoming a demon’s playground.
Read MoreMazes & Mondays: Drowning in Prep
here’s the secret every veteran GM eventually learns: your players will never read your lore bible, and you don’t need one to run a world that feels alive.
Read MoreMazes & Mondays: Villains you love to Hate
Now let’s talk about the person delivering that danger. Because here’s the truth every seasoned Game Master learns eventually: your players won’t remember…
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