They are prominent in Germanic and Scandinavian legend and generally dwelt in rocks and caves and recesses of the earth. They were guardians of mineral wealth and precious stones and very skillful at their work. They were not unfriendly to man, but could on occasions, be vindictive and mischievous. [Rockwood, Camilla, ed. 2009. Brewer’s DictionaryContinue reading “Tabletop Meditations #13: Dwarves”
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Tabletop Meditations #12: Trolls
They have been and are, from their very inception, the consummate villain whether they be fierce beasts bent on random destruction and death, or mystical monsters that snatch away the hero’s loved ones for some nefarious purpose, or a supernatural arbiter of an unbelievably harsh but ironic justice. The malformed embodiment of pure malevolence, theContinue reading “Tabletop Meditations #12: Trolls”
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Tabletop Meditations #11: Elves
Elves, the humanoid embodiments of beauty and grace armed with the wisdom of ages as well as a not insignificant amount of magical power. They are ubiquitous in modern fantasy but once upon a time Elves, Dwarves, Goblins, and fairies were synonymous and virtually the same thing. The popular concept of an “elf” is aContinue reading “Tabletop Meditations #11: Elves”
A Giant in Xuun Pt.2: Walking the Bazaar
The Whiskey Troll Tavern was a-buzz with the noise of conversation, sinister and riotous laughter, and the loutish shrieks and yells of its loyal but filthy patrons. Floating just above the clamor barely able to take wing in the thick sea of lamp-yellowed pipe-smoke were the sweet banjo notes of a doshpuluur (a 3-string long-necked lute)Continue reading “A Giant in Xuun Pt.2: Walking the Bazaar”
A Giant in Xuun Pt.1: Black Oak Mishap
The sweaty greasy crowd in the smoke-fogged taproom of the Whiskey Troll Tavern was in a cacophony as the clatter of coin changing hands began to wash over the former uproar generated by the evening’s entertainment. Among the grungy ragged crowd were a group of ethnic Scael Nagas with a dagger and coiled serpent designContinue reading “A Giant in Xuun Pt.1: Black Oak Mishap”
A Giant in Xuun (Intro)
Freeman Nezor of Clan Formarch, ethnically a Hill-Lander and racially a Hill Giant, was raised on the hillside of a glen somewhere between the great Granfor Forest and the North-eastern tip of the Central Mountains just inside the southern border of the Hill-Lands north of the Westlands. Here his family, a prominent portion of Clan Formarch,Continue reading “A Giant in Xuun (Intro)”
Building Tabletop Myths
Another hubpages article from Robert A. Neri Jr. This one explores the construction of myth using the material generated from playing a tabletop RPG campaign as medium. Role-players can extend their game beyond the limits of the tabletop and enrich their games by constructing myths of the raw materials and medium provided by their playContinue reading “Building Tabletop Myths”
Tabletop Meditations #10: Death
Mentioning the grim reaper conjures up the gruesome image of death, a worm-eaten skeleton cloaked in rot-black and bearing a scythe used to cut-down the living like chaff which manifests personally or through its followers especially in the fantasy realms of role-playing games. Whatever its guise it is inevitably an inescapable force as present inContinue reading “Tabletop Meditations #10: Death”
New Setting – Arvan: Land of Dragons!
Dragons infest the land of Arvan a high-fantasy setting with the dark and brutal overtones of sword & sorcery. Set during the rise of an age of exploration and trade it’s a world fraught with the ruins of former ages inhabited by the folly of the Mad-Mages and dominated by Dragons! Player Races include Arboreans,Continue reading “New Setting – Arvan: Land of Dragons!”