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!

I’ve recently been thinking about threshold or liminal gods. It’s a strange concept to have an entire god – or several – dedicated to doorways. However, liminality also refers to being “between” places, times or states. I have created Tarsis – Goddess at the Gate – as an attempt to create a coherent threshold deity for use in roleplaying games. I’ve also included rules for using Tarsis with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and with Savage Worlds. If you find this article interesting, I suggest reading up about Hecate, who Tarsis is heavily based upon.

I recently had an NPC ask a PC if he’d like to gamble, but I hadn’t thought of the game they would play. Before I knew it I was saying in character as the NPC: “So, have you ever played… knifey-dicey?” On the spot, we came up with some quick rules for this two player minigame.

Fact one: demons are awesome. Fact two: everything is better with pirates.

Combining them is an obvious move, yet I can’t think of a campaign setting I’ve seen that was dedicated to this concept. Hence, my new campaign setting: Demonsea.

I’ll be using Pyres of Vam as a place to preview material from Demonsea, so that readers can follow the development of this brand new campaign setting. But for now, read on to get the first sneak peek at this swashbuckling, demon-slaying world of mayhem and adventure!

March Fourth has become known as GM’s Day in the roleplaying community. It’s a day to celebrate Game Masters and thank them for their hard work, convoluted plots, devious villains and all the fun times you’ve had with them. GMs and players alike will be interested in the celebrations happening over at DriveThruRPG, the Internet’s largest RPG download store. They’ve take a fourth off many of the products on their site until the 8th of March. That’s 25% off!