Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is coming! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Let’s Make a Hexcrawl Setting
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Daztur" data-source="post: 5900562" data-attributes="member: 55680"><p>Well with most bards you think, "oh I'm so scared, what's he going to do, sing at me?" With gnoll bards you think the same thing but without the sarcasm. Hyena calls are some of the creepiest things in the world. Let's run with that...</p><p></p><p><strong>The Pointing Bone</strong></p><p>Addendum to chutup's last post, based on the Australian "kurdaitcha." I'm not sure what to do with the feather shoes, maybe chutup could take a stab at that element.</p><p></p><p>The reason that several gigglings were banned by the Great Mother of the gnolls is that they can kill. Gnolls who have been trained in the kharghaha or who have heard the old songs around the dungfires know that satire can cut to the bone.</p><p></p><p>This is done with the aid of a pointing bone, a length of sharpened bone cut from an appropriate animal, wrapped in feathers or hair and soaked in blood. A gnollish bard bent on murder will then point this bone at their victim and cry out with a giggling that lays bare the target's greatest flaws. If the giggling rings true then a great curse will be laid that can result in death or worse...</p><p></p><p>Hooks:</p><p>-What is "an appropriate animal."</p><p>-"Or worse"? What could be worse than having a bard laughing you to death?</p><p></p><p><strong>Castle Maratan</strong></p><p>Hex 07.17</p><p></p><p>In an island in a lake rises the squat wooden bulk of Castle Maratan. If can only be approached by a narrow bridge that crosses the lake waters, which makes it difficult to besiege. The waters of the lake are stagnant, otherwise the castle would've been abandoned long ago as the Lords Sanguine cannot bear to look upon running water.</p><p></p><p>The knights of Castle Maratan have none of the Swordsages' (11.15) art and they mingle the blood of the Tarrasque with hobgoblin (16.04) shroom wine to dull its powers. These warriors favor long straight swords with a single cutting edge, something like shaving razors of extreme length. After drinking their bloodied wine, they wave their swords in a frenzy the strokes coming seemingly at random but finding their mark often enough to make the knights of the castle bitter foes of Thring.</p><p></p><p>The current ruler of Castle Maratan is Lady Natala, (the Lady mentioned in The Questing Beast and the Jester Prince, post 172 in this thread) who seized the mithril coronet of the old ruler from the air as he fell dead from snakebite. She is a frequent hunter in the wild lands around the castle and her hunts do much to supplement the meager tithes that she collects from the mud hunts of the cowering peasants of her domains.</p><p></p><p>On one of her hunts she came across the Duke of Thring himself, lying stricken after an encounter with the Tarrasque of Bergolast. She fell in love in an instant and nursed him back to health and when infection took hold on a wound that rang across the back of his hand, she drew blood from the beast so that the Duke could tell her which fingers could be saved and which to cut away.</p><p></p><p>But their love could not last, for the Duke could not abandon his wife and Dukedom for her, but Lady Natala claims that the young lad who run whooping through the halls of Castle Maratan is the Duke's son and she means to see him sit on the high seat in Castle Tarengael (16.16) and rule all of the lands of Thring.</p><p></p><p>Hooks:</p><p>-Why can the Lord Sanguine not bear to look upon running water?</p><p>-How does being mixed with hobgobling shroom wine affect the effects of Tarrasque blood?</p><p>-How did a snake come to bite the old lord of Castle Maratan?</p><p>-How does Lady Natala plan to win the Dukedom of Thring from her son? Surely she knows that inheritance in Thring runs solely in the female line?</p><p>-Is the boy truly the Duke's son?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Daztur, post: 5900562, member: 55680"] Well with most bards you think, "oh I'm so scared, what's he going to do, sing at me?" With gnoll bards you think the same thing but without the sarcasm. Hyena calls are some of the creepiest things in the world. Let's run with that... [b]The Pointing Bone[/b] Addendum to chutup's last post, based on the Australian "kurdaitcha." I'm not sure what to do with the feather shoes, maybe chutup could take a stab at that element. The reason that several gigglings were banned by the Great Mother of the gnolls is that they can kill. Gnolls who have been trained in the kharghaha or who have heard the old songs around the dungfires know that satire can cut to the bone. This is done with the aid of a pointing bone, a length of sharpened bone cut from an appropriate animal, wrapped in feathers or hair and soaked in blood. A gnollish bard bent on murder will then point this bone at their victim and cry out with a giggling that lays bare the target's greatest flaws. If the giggling rings true then a great curse will be laid that can result in death or worse... Hooks: -What is "an appropriate animal." -"Or worse"? What could be worse than having a bard laughing you to death? [b]Castle Maratan[/b] Hex 07.17 In an island in a lake rises the squat wooden bulk of Castle Maratan. If can only be approached by a narrow bridge that crosses the lake waters, which makes it difficult to besiege. The waters of the lake are stagnant, otherwise the castle would've been abandoned long ago as the Lords Sanguine cannot bear to look upon running water. The knights of Castle Maratan have none of the Swordsages' (11.15) art and they mingle the blood of the Tarrasque with hobgoblin (16.04) shroom wine to dull its powers. These warriors favor long straight swords with a single cutting edge, something like shaving razors of extreme length. After drinking their bloodied wine, they wave their swords in a frenzy the strokes coming seemingly at random but finding their mark often enough to make the knights of the castle bitter foes of Thring. The current ruler of Castle Maratan is Lady Natala, (the Lady mentioned in The Questing Beast and the Jester Prince, post 172 in this thread) who seized the mithril coronet of the old ruler from the air as he fell dead from snakebite. She is a frequent hunter in the wild lands around the castle and her hunts do much to supplement the meager tithes that she collects from the mud hunts of the cowering peasants of her domains. On one of her hunts she came across the Duke of Thring himself, lying stricken after an encounter with the Tarrasque of Bergolast. She fell in love in an instant and nursed him back to health and when infection took hold on a wound that rang across the back of his hand, she drew blood from the beast so that the Duke could tell her which fingers could be saved and which to cut away. But their love could not last, for the Duke could not abandon his wife and Dukedom for her, but Lady Natala claims that the young lad who run whooping through the halls of Castle Maratan is the Duke's son and she means to see him sit on the high seat in Castle Tarengael (16.16) and rule all of the lands of Thring. Hooks: -Why can the Lord Sanguine not bear to look upon running water? -How does being mixed with hobgobling shroom wine affect the effects of Tarrasque blood? -How did a snake come to bite the old lord of Castle Maratan? -How does Lady Natala plan to win the Dukedom of Thring from her son? Surely she knows that inheritance in Thring runs solely in the female line? -Is the boy truly the Duke's son? [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Let’s Make a Hexcrawl Setting
Top