Recent content by FraserRonald

Suffer the Witch, an adventure for Kiss My Axe, is now available. A group of Vikings cast ashore find a village stripped of its warriors. The chieftain speaks of a witch, once a wise woman of the village, now bitter and flushed with hatred. The village suffers under her curse, and he has lost...

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As am I! Honestly, there were moments when I didn't think it would.

As you might expect, I certainly hope that you do. Thanks so much for expressing interest. Even if you don't end up purchasing it, it's nice to you that it at least sounds tempting. Fire away! It's 6X9, so smaller than most RPG books. Also--and this might be an issue--given it's dimensions...

Are you ready for some Viking mayhem? Kiss My Axe: Thirteen Warriors and an Angel of Death is an RPG of Viking adventure that looks to the sagas as much as to history to inform its take on Europe's romanticized pirates and pillagers. Vikings invoked fear in the monks of England and fascination...

The DNA of an astronaut and naval aviator declared MIA in 2006 has been found in a fragment from the Tunguska event of 1908. Is the aviator alive? How could his DNA be involved in the explosion of the Tunguska event, 100 years earlier? Osiris is tasked with learning the answers to these...

Crossing the Millers is an adventure for Sword Noir: A Role-Playing Game of Hardboiled Sword & Sorcery. Finney the Miller, master of East Corners, wants the Fixer's crew to take care of a romantic rival he suspects has captured his mistress' eyes, if not her heart. But does this risk a war with...

In this adventure, the PCs find themselves caught up in the search for scrolls belonging to the ancient necromancer Kheufer. Allies, enemies and the unknown all intersect as the sand runs through the hourglass and the plans of an ancient power, long thought dead, move toward fruition. The...

Sword Noir: A Role-Playing Game of Hardboiled Sword & Sorcery is now available as a 104 page softcover 6” x 9” book with black & white interiors. Print + PDF from RPG Now is priced at $10.73. If you’ve been waiting for the print book, wait no longer. If you have purchased the PDF and have not...

Thank you very much! I am very glad to hear you're happy with it. Now I'm going to piss you off. At least maybe a little. I think that if you want to run an S&S or swashbuckling campaign, some of the inspirational systems I listed might be better. I don't think I totally met my Sword Noir...

Also up on the website now to give you an idea of what you're getting into is the character tracker, the character sheet, the pre-made characters, and a map of Everthorn--the city setting presented in Sword Noir.

Glad I've got your interest. I'll try to answer your questions as directly and concisely as possible. It's 2d10 vs a Target Number. The character is built using Qualities, some--like "Concept"--are specific in what they are asking, others are left open to the player. The Qualities provide...

Hardboiled sword & sorcery--it's Conan seeking for the Maltese Falcon, it's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser in the Big Sleep, set in Lankhmar, it's hardboiled crime fiction in the worlds of sword & sorcery. It's Sword Noir. Inspired by mashing up the novels and stories of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell...

For those of you who follow the news even slightly, you’ve seen that Japan was rocked by an earthquake, struck by a tsunami and there are now reports of a volcano. To try to help support disaster relief, Sword’s Edge Publishing has created two products from which all proceeds go to the...

Across the seas or perhaps trackless deserts, places of legend in stories told by sailors who have seen the edges of the world, these Arcane Kingdoms are beyond the knowledge of many. But here, collected in these pages, is all the information known of these realms. For now. Arcane Kingdoms...