Archive for May, 2010

Aruneus – Zombie Apocalypse Meets High Fantasy

Aruneus is a campaign setting being developed by Ben over at Troll in the Corner and using the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game rules. It’s a high fantasy world 100 years after the zombie apocalypse. Sounds like a great combination to me! Ben’s using Kickstarter to fund the creation of his setting through Kickstarter but he needs your help.

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Zodiac: Pandas vs. Tigers

Low on time to prep our group’s regular Pathfinder game this week I decided to run an intro game of Savage Worlds. I asked my wife “What should you guys fight tonight?”. She listed off several things that were inherently unfightable before finally jokingly suggesting “Pandas!”. I suddenly recalled seeing this image of an armoured red panda recently and my Zodiac campaign setting was born!

Little did I know that vengeful blade-fisted tigers, panda whirlwinds of death (not in the way you’d think, either) and spirititual resource wars were soon to rear their awesome heads!

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Monster MashUp Winners

Congratulations to Jarrod Camiré for his excellent winning entry to Nevermet Press’ Monster MashUp contest (and congrats to the three runners up, too). I’m glad I entered, and this is actually one of the entries I hoped would win. I have a soft spot for Hecate these days, since my post about the goddess Tarsis.

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Monster MashUp Contest Update

Sadly, Nevermet Press had to temporarily close the voting for their Monster MashUp Contest due to “widespread voting fraud”. Thankfully, they’ve found another online venue and voting has begun anew. However, the voting is now only open to those who submitted entries and Nevermet Press content developers. Despite most of you not being able to vote, you should still check out the listing of the entries for inspiration for your games. My entry is Entry #17, if you’re interested.

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Pyres of Vam is run by Mockingbard and his alter-ego(maniac) Vam. It focuses on tabletop roleplaying but you'll find other things here too.

Mockingbard loves roleplaying, worldbuilding and stories. He posts setting ideas, session recaps, gamemastery tips and the like for fun, for himself and to get his creativity on.

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