There are, broadly, two approaches to a campaign book. You can do a book that’s one big adventure: there may be sidetracks and optional encounters and subplots, but there’s a central spine that runs through the whole thing. The Dracula Dossier and Eyes of the Stone Thief use that model; everything revolves around Dracula or […]
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By Adam Gauntlett The Sisterhood of Swineherds is a Guild taken seriously. Hogs are not allowed everywhere: the Government Committees have passed numerous ordinances about the keeping and management of pigs, so that the streets don’t swarm with swine. Swords of the Serpentine Where there’s muck, there’s brass. Traditional wisdom. A Swords of the Serpentine […]
By Kevin Kulp This is the 14th in our series on non-human heroes in Swords of the Serpentine. Like the High Elves and Forest Elves entries, Mantis aren’t an easy fit into Eversink. This entry on Mantis is only recommended for use if you want to use Swords of the Serpentine to power a high […]
a column about roleplaying by Robin D. Laws As reported in November, Polish archaeologists recently found a spiked iron tool establishing that druids local to the area, as they did elsewhere, once practiced trepanation. Until around the 19th century, cultures spanning historical and geographical boundaries did what they could to treat apparent brain ailments, by […]
By Kevin Kulp Swords of the Serpentine adversaries are designed to be easily tweaked and modified. But what if you want a foe that’s quite different from those in the core rules? This month we are going to walk through creating a non-human adversary, then look at how to create variants of it. When you […]
When egg nog appears on store shelves and the strains of Wham’s Last Christmas play on their public address systems, that means two things in the Pelgrane nest. One, the Great Pelgrane flaps from his nest on his annual flight to the North Pole to offer old Saint Nick his sleigh-pulling services should the reindeer […]
In the canals and crumbling towers of Eversink, secrets soar higher than the gulls and sometimes the truth flies in on feathered wings. In this intrigue-heavy mystery, your heroes are hired to investigate infidelity, only to uncover a tangled network of blackmail, vanishing investigators, attack birds, and scandalous secrets best left buried. Overview The heroes […]
By Kevin Kulp High Concept Want to adapt Swords of the Serpentine to play a high fantasy game instead of swords and sorcery? Use these guidelines and house rules to capture a classic fantasy feel that features non-human heroes, classic magic, and gods who grant prayers and provide miracles. Character Generation Professions If you’re coming […]
Pelgrane Press seeks swashbuckling playtesters to strap on their swords and smite some sorcery to playtest Pillars Built on Sand. Written with the trademark verve of acclaimed designer Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, this book of linked scenarios features: A quarantined ship harboring a fatal secret. An avatar of war on a predatory night time hunt. A covert […]
You invest your base of operations with General and Investigative abilities that anyone in your group can share as long as they’re in that location. This location is called a sanctum.