Icethorn It cannot truly be called a "maze", for a maze implies a mere two dimensions. Like the rest of Darkbriar, Icethorn extends in every direction, plants with no roots and no surface, a sprawling labyrinth of needles to impale … Continue reading →
Darkbriar, Part I Well, time is limited for me to work on this site, so I am combining two "regular" features for this week — Breakfast Crunch and the Abyss Project. This week I’m planning on doing a fairly complex … Continue reading →
Clambering Hordes Some not-quite-undead minions; full details on them can be found here: Ghoul-ash, Part III. Actual stats found after the break.
Continue reading →Ghoul-ash, Part III You can tell I grew up on bad horror movies with bad horror hosts shown at 3:00 on Sunday afternoon, can’t you? For Part III, I figured since the DMG2 includes guidelines for traps and minions, it … Continue reading →
Underdweller Cryptguard And Gravepriest Two more Underdwellers! The Cryptguard is a reasonable fighter in his own right, but his real strength is as a guardian for his allies — he is hard to get past if properly positioned, and if … Continue reading →
Underdweller Cryptguard And Gravepriest Two more Underdwellers! The Cryptguard is a reasonable fighter in his own right, but his real strength is as a guardian for his allies — he is hard to get past if properly positioned, and if … Continue reading →
Underdwellers, Part II Not too much to add by way of introduction, here. A few general notes on using these monsters: If the idea of a relatively passive race of corpse-eating monstrosities isn’t interesting enough, one nice variant is to alter … Continue reading →
Underdweller Harvester The harvesters are the most commonly encountered Underdwellers, as they must venture near to the surface to retrieve the newly buried before the meat is lost to rats and others. Their claws are rich in painful pestilences, and … Continue reading →
(Or, if you prefer, CHUD.) One of my favorite Lovecraft stories was "Pickman’s Model", mostly for its imagery of the unknown and horrible things that lurk beneath the city streets, and of course its classic ending. A lot of "Lovecraftian" … Continue reading →
Strange Sorceries One of the niftiest things about FantasyCraft (a great big steaming pile of nifty) are the various Campaign Qualities. In keeping with this week’s theme, I offer a few ideas about the Corrupting Magic quality — the trait … Continue reading →