A YouTube video in which some Kanz-style drop pods inspired by the original Epicast model are scratchbuilt from junk.
I Could Cry
Could be Useful is an introductory piece of fiction for Silkgift: The City of Sails, one of the supplements for Cities of Sundara, which is available in versions for 5th Edition and Pathfinder.
“Did you read that?”
“Read what?”
“That!” said Thaylus, pointing at a label on the bottle.
“Oh,” replied Darna, “that. I didn’t think it was relevant.”
Thaylus stood up, just so she could slump down again and hold her head in her hands. There was a crunching noise as some of the broken glass was ground beneath her feet.
Both she and Darna had been hiding behind one of the, solid, wooden, thick, cupboards in their Nightmare Alley laboratory. Thaylus sighed. “It’s a warning to not do with that liquid what you just did with it. Why did you think it was there?”
Daran shrugged. “I didn’t think it was necessarily right,” he said.
“That doesn’t mean it’s definitely wrong!”
Thaylus gave her partner an exasperated look. “You do remember this sort of thing is why we got kicked out of the Ingeneurium in the first place. Then out of that good place in Fool Street. Then the bad one. And why we are now renting this shack in Nightmare Alley, because no-one trusts us enough to keep us around anything expensive!”
She shook her head. “If we lose this place, we have nowhere else to go. Nowhere in Silkgift anyway; we’ll have to move beyond the city limits.”
Daran brightened up at that. “That sounds like a fantastic idea! No more neighbours causing trouble or people complaining about explosions. We should definitely do that.”
Thaylus sagged. “I could cry, I really could.” She wandered off mumbling “I wonder why I bother, I really do…”
100 Hooks and Rumours for an Urban Fantasy Setting, Locales of Sundara: Up, Up and Away and 100 Hooks and Rumours for the Impossible Lands VIII Now Available
100 Hooks and Rumours for an Urban Fantasy Setting and Locales of Sundara: Up, Up and Away are now available on DriveThruRPG and 100 Hooks and Rumours for the Impossible Lands VIII is available on Pathfinder Infinite.
Characters may hear things in an urban fantasy setting that they know indicate something odd is going on. 100 Hooks and Rumours for an Urban Fantasy Setting has 100 such rumours for them to hear.
Locales of Sundara: Up, Up and Away describes a single location, a fantasy balloon business, without a map but with various details that allow the GM to use it as a drop-in location.
Characters may come across rumours when asking around and 100 Hooks and Rumours for the Impossible Lands VIII has 100 such for them to hear. They can be used as adventure hooks, misinformation or background colour.
Speaking of Sundara – Did You Know We Were On TV Tropes?
In this video, Neal Litherland talks about how the setting is on TV Tropes, tropes used in the setting and some updates.
Prototype of a Warhammer 40K Ork Gobsmasha
This YouTube Short shows a prototype for an ork gobsmasha for Warhammer 40K.
D6: Numenera Rumours – Joria III
Numenera is a game published by Monte Cook Games. Its setting is the Ninth World, and this list has six rumours for that setting. The rumours, which are similar to the Hearsay that can be found in the official books, can be used as adventure hooks or as simple misinformation.
- Kinderi is the only Jorian, and one who’s human at that, who seems to be capable of understanding the colour language of the vunds in Joria’s evolo sphere. It’s rumoured that he’s made more progress than he’s admitted to, and has been keeping this quiet as he’s learned something disturbing.
- Some believe that opening up the evolo sphere would cause the vunds inside, and perhaps the entire city of Joria, to cease to exist. Some have also suggested that perhaps the vunds are not precisely present in this dimension, and that the sphere is in fact a kind of portal to another realm.
- The canals of Joria once seemed to be regularly used, though that is now no longer the case, despite evidence of former use. Some rumours have said that people who used to live in the canals had a tendency to disappear, and that this resulted in those left deserting them.
- The vunds are fused-together creatures found in the evolo sphere in Joria, and they are believed to be keepers of the city’s history. It’s rumoured that the age of the vunds is so great that they have accumulated knowledge on far more than just Joria and the granthu.
- There are some leftover items in the canals of Joria, evidence that the area was once inhabited properly. Though most are junk or regular items, it’s rumoured that hidden away are cyphers and other items of interest. Some have speculated that these are created by the granthu itself.
- Three triangular stone towers rise above the rest of the city of Joria, and they are used by the Jorians to send out a homing signal as they look for more of their own kind. It’s rumoured that the towers, which are linked to the granthus’s ganglia, can send out other signals too, which given the size of the granthu can be used as weapons.
100 World Building Questions To Ask About Fantasy Faiths, 100 Water Sources and Features to Find in a Dungeon (C&C) and 100 Mirrors to Find in a Dungeon (SWADE) Now Available
100 World Building Questions To Ask About Fantasy Faiths, 100 Water Sources and Features to Find in a Dungeon (C&C) and 100 Mirrors to Find in a Dungeon (SWADE) are now available to buy on DriveThruRPG.
100 World Building Questions To Ask About Fantasy Faiths has 100 questions you can ask when creating a faith and answering some or all of them can make the faith seem more realistic.
100 Water Sources and Features to Find in a Dungeon (C&C) has 100 different water sources that could be found in a dungeon or other location, along with suggestions for customising some of them. These range from small to large and some are definitely hazardous in nature. This is a conversion of the original supplement to Castles & Crusades.
Characters can find mirrors in dungeons and other places and 100 Mirrors to Find in a Dungeon (SWADE) has 100 such for them to find. They range from the cheap to the odd to the slightly magical.
Tabletop Mercenary, Episode 42: What Happens When Your Publisher Dies?
In this video, Neal looks at the issues that can arise when a publisher dies, or the company ceases to exist in one way or another.
Greeble Hunt: Television
In this video, I dismantle a worn out flatscreen television in my latest dismantling of items looking for greebles and other parts that might be usable in scratchbuilding.
D10: Things to Buy in Hoardreach’s Low Market
The Low Market in the district of Westgate in Hoardreach in the Sundara setting has a range of goods from different vendors available for sale, some of them unusual or rare.
- Bolt of fine silk.
- Bundle of fresh harpy feathers.
- Dried mushrooms from a faerie ring.
- Fungi harvested from within the tunnels of Hoardreach.
- Herbs collected from the marshes around Hoardreach.
- Marsh reeds from the marshes at the foot of Hoardreach, bearing black dragon sign.
- Pouch of powdered dragon scale.
- Powdered glass made with dragonfire.
- Small pot that explodes with a flash and a large bang when broken.
- Very strong liquor brewed using mild acid.