Cal Moore created the lightning elemental as part of the newly published High Magic & Low Cunning: Battle Scenes for Four Icons. I tweaked the stats a bit to get them to play more like our other elementals. High Magic & Low Cunning includes stats for the 7th level version of the lighting elemental. The […]
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Ironfire: Part 1 For months, strange meteorites have rained down on the Dragon Empire, bringing strange creatures known as star-masks: parasites that latch onto the faces of other beings and take over their minds and bodies. Now the Dwarf King has announced that he’s retrieved an intact meteorite and is willing to sell it to the highest bidder. […]
Released on Free RPG Day 2016 – now available to download here. The Dracula Dossier – The Van Helsing Letter Just before he vanished, Abraham Van Helsing – doctor of medicine, doctor of law, and secret vampire hunter – wrote one last letter hinting at an unsolved case. Now, more than a century later, that letter is in […]
by Paul Butler Paul Alexander Butler is the Director of Retail Operations at Games and Stuff, one of the largest gaming stores on the East coast of the United States. A familiar face at trade shows around North America, in recent years he has spent a great deal of time and energy helping other retailers […]
by Jonathan Tweet Keep large bugs as pets, sometimes very large ones and often edible ones. Ferment food in holes in the ground, a treatment that nicely softens bug exoskeletons. Worship ecstatically, even violently, in front of shapeless idols. Mark family relationships with stylized scars. Cut mementos off the bodies of the dead before burning […]
Into The Underworld 4: Eldwold Rises! Into The Underworld: Eldwold Rises! is the fourth installment in the Underworld series. The adventurers have been tracking a gem that crashed into the underworld inside a meteorite—and now the gem has finally been located, in a malevolent living dungeon that’s has patterned itself after the now-ruined surface city of Eldwold. Into the […]
Game Masters Still Needed for Gen Con! And Other Cons! There’s so much demand for 13th Age play at conventions that we can always use more help from GMs. If you want to join our crew as a volunteer GM, fill out this form! Download Into The Underworld 3: Among The Dead Into The Underworld: Among […]
High Magic & Low Cunning: Battle Scenes for Five Icons is available to pre-order, and it’s pretty great! But you don’t have to take my word for it: Check out these free previews of Rafting Razoredge Gorge, a low-level adventure featuring a journey through perilous waters to ambush an orcish camp. Battle 1: Catch of the Day (download the […]
by Ian Chilvers Download Ian’s 13th Age encounter manager here. A lot of my time used in the preparation of 13th Age sessions is in the creation of encounters. Particularly in the specifics of balancing (or deliberate unbalancing) of encounters to a party’s level. 13th Age has a reasonably simple method for calculating an encounter’s […]
The Icon Riffs series offers inspiration for adventure design and improvisation at the table. The ideas presented aren’t numbered, because numbered lists imply a certain consistency between results. These lists are evocative rather than consistent. They’re also not thorough. This isn’t an attempt to list all the things that could be associated with the icons. There are huge numbers […]