A new video has been published on YouTube in which Neal Litherland talks about how the Sundara setting was created.
100 Caves and Shelters to Find in the Wilderness (PFRPG) PDF Preview
A new video has been published on YouTube that previews the first few pages of 100 Caves and Shelters to Find in the Wilderness (PFRPG).
D10: Night City Rumours – Upper East Side
10 Hooks and Rumours for Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0.’s Night City
This list has ten hooks and rumours that can be heard in or about the Upper East Side district of Night City. Whether or not they are true is up to the GameMaster. They can be used as background colour or as potential adventure hooks.
- Allworld Insurance in the Upper East Side has an enclosure built of reinforced concrete as part of their building, where physical evidence is stored for examination by the company’s forensic engineers. There’s only one street entrance, without using explosives, and there are two checkpoints to ensure only those allowed to enter can do so. Yet there are rumours that some of what’s been stored in the enclosure has been tampered with to affect Allworld’s investigations and ultimate pay-outs.
- CiNEmaXUS is a theatre and braindance arcade that has been struggling recently due to corporate clientele being driven elsewhere by the punks on the streets at night. Some say that the place is going to start catering to the punks, but there are other rumours that the owners are making a deal with someone far more dangerous than any street punk in order to keep the area around it safe so that its original clientele feels safe to return.
- Global Foods prides itself on its ability to create any dish that a diner asks for, no matter how disgusting. It’s rumoured that it’s also possible to order dishes that, whilst not unknown, are illegal, with long pig being the one most touted as being available to those in the know.
- Kitty Liquor violates most of Night City’s local laws, including selling to minors as well as remaining open at all times of day and night. Though the council would like to shut it down, doing so could well cause a riot amongst the local gangs. Others, however, are less bothered about the potential fallout, or about obeying the law when it comes to closing Kitty Liquor down, and there are rumours of violent actions planned against the business.
- Long Last Books specialises in rare, out of print, banned and hard to find books as well as those published by independents. The gangs appreciate this, but the corps do not, and it’s rumoured that the corps have tried to put the shop out of business a few times, with the use of force, but that the gangs have stepped up to defend them.
- StreeTemps is used to hire those in need of some quick cash to carry out various activities that, at best, skirt on being on the wrong side of the law and, more often than not, go fully over that border. It’s rumoured that those who sign up with StreeTemps tend to suffer higher casualty rates than normal, which may be because the hirers are not the best people around to deal with.
- Systems Original manufactures networking software similar to that used in the Net. There’s a rumour that in some cases, perhaps all cases, that a backdoor is created in the software that allows Systems Original, or someone who pays them for the privilege, to access what are supposed to be secure networks.
- The Advocet is a luxury hotel that provides services, both legal and not, to its clientele. To date, the police haven’t taken any notice of this, as everything happens in-house, but it’s rumoured that’s changing after one of the more dubious clientele caused the death of one of the people providing them with an intimate service.
- The autovendor in NNEws is run by a marginally intelligent AI that reputedly has chopped the hands of people who have tried to steal from it. There are rumours that the AI is rather more than marginally intelligent, and takes a disturbing pleasure in inflicting harm on others, which may not bode well for the things it vends in the future.
- The truck drivers of Barstow Enterprises often get into altercations of the punks who frequent The Slammer just down the street, and some take a kind of pride in the number of punks they’ve mown down with their vehicles. It’s rumoured that matters might be about to get out of hand though; some of the punks are said to be in the market for some anti-vehicular weaponry with the intention of blowing up some of the trucks, and their drivers at the same time.
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100 Modern Businesses to Encounter, 100 Books to Find in or about the Borderland Provinces II and 100 Knick-knacks for Ghelspad Now Available
100 Modern Businesses to Encounter, 100 Books to Find in or about the Borderland Provinces II and 100 Knick-knacks for Ghelspad are now available to buy on DriveThruRPG.
In a setting that is comparatively modern, including some apocalyptic ones, businesses can be found. 100 Modern Businesses to Encounter has 100 small businesses for characters to come across, each with a name and a brief description.
Not every book is definitely useful or valuable and 100 Books to Find in or about the Borderland Provinces II has 100 such to flesh out a bookshelf in the Lost Lands setting about the Border Provinces.
100 Knick-knacks for Ghelspad has 100 minor items that could be found instead of trinkets or in an NPCs possession, all connected to Ghelspad in some way.
Neal Litherland Reads “The Price of Steel” from Sellswords of Sundara
In this video, Neal Litherland reads the fiction “The Price of Steel” from Sellswords of Sundara, available for 5E and Pathfinder.
100 Caves and Shelters to Find in the Wilderness PDF Preview
A new video has been published on YouTube that previews the first few pages of 100 Caves and Shelters to Find in the Wilderness.
Christmas in July 2022
The Christmas in July sale is now live on DriveThruRPG and 556 of our supplements have up to 25% off for just under 13 days. Click here to see them.
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Takatori Magical Tattoos (PFRPG)
Species of Sundara: Dwarves (PFRPG) introduced the Takatori dwarves, known for their tattoo culture.
The Takatori dwarves of Sundara boast an intricate tattoo culture, and those who can understand the tattoos can determine a dwarf’s marital status, trades, origin, successes and more just by examining them. Some of the tattoos are also magical in nature, doing more than simply showing a dwarf’s accomplishments to the world. The magical tattoos of the Takatori follow the standard rules for such. It is possible for non-Takatori to bear these tattoos, but it’s rare to find any who have other than those who have been fully integrated into a Takatori community.
Master Crafter’s Tattoo
Price 7,000 gp; Slot none; CL 5th; Weight -; Aura faint transmutation
Description
These tattoos are given to those who are masters in their field of craft, and the tattoos incorporate an element of the Craft skill in question in their design; a tattoo for a master of armour, for example, might incorporate a breastplate. They can be created to benefit any Craft skill, though that skill must be determined before the tattoo is done; they cannot be changed to a different skill afterwards; another tattoo would need making instead.
The most common tattoos found amongst a group of Takatori are for skills that are relevant to that group; Takatori far from the ocean are unlikely to sport many Craft (ships) tattoos. Takatori may still sport tattoos for any craft skill; it’s just that how common a particular type of tattoo is varies by the region, and those Takatori that live outside their traditional lands are more likely to have tattoos that would not be as common in their own realms.
A Master Crafter’s Tattoo provides a +3 circumstance bonus to the relevant Craft skill.
Construction Requirements
Cost 3,500 gp; Feats Inscribe Magical Tattoo, recipient having at least 10 ranks in the relevant skill; Spells fox’s cunning
Firecaster’s Tattoo
Price 6,000 gp; Slot none; CL 5th; Weight -; Aura faint evocation
Description
These tattoos are commonly designed to look like flames or things that are associated with flames or fire.
Takatori often have an affinity to fire and the magic of the tattoo provides an enhancement to spells with the fire descriptor. It is commonly found on Takatori with the Heart of Fire species trait, though having such is not a requirement.
A Firecaster’s Tattoo will result in spells with the fire descriptor causing 1 point more of damage on every dice.
Construction Requirements
Cost 3,000 gp; Feats Inscribe Magical Tattoo, Intensified Spell; Spells burning hands
100 Tips for Being a Better Player, 100 Farming Country Encounters (Lore 100) and 100 Books to Find in or About the Glorious Empire Now Available
100 Tips for Being a Better Player, 100 Farming Country Encounters (Lore 100) and 100 Books to Find in or About the Glorious Empire are now available to buy from DriveThruRPG.
RPGs are complicated games involving many different elements. There are ways of making games run and play better, and some of these are how you play. 100 Tips for Being a Better Player has suggestions for this.
Farming regions tend to be safer, but characters can still have encounters. 100 Farming Country Encounters (Lore 100) has 100 such encounters, which can range from useful to dangerous to potential adventure hooks. This is a conversion of the original supplement to Lore 100.
Not every book found is necessarily useful, and 100 Books to Find in or About the Glorious Empire has 100 books to find in or about the Glorious Empire for fleshing out a bookshelf.
Speaking of Sundara: Technology, “Period” and Inspiration
A new video has been published in which Neal Litherland talks about technology in the Sundara setting, its “period” and its inspiration.