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Well "ackshually".... :geek: While ASSH is a cool game in the same genre, the following terms are often confused due to similarity in spelling: Conan's adventures, as written by Robert E. Howard, take place in the HYBORIAN AGE ( Hyborian Age - Wikipedia ) , sometime between the sinking of...

A mysterious message leads to Yaatana, a city of furtive sorcerers, and strange and depraved cults. Will you steal the treasures of its temples, or succumb to the charms of the Daughters of Rahma? "The Daughters of Rahma" is a stand-alone sword and sorcery adventure module, inspired by the...

"Pteor-Voth, Sorcerer-King of Shargallah, looked out across the sands of the arena, littered with the bones of dead champions. He raised his hands and shouted: "Release the Krathuul!" The small group of men and women who stood in the arena, naked except for simple loincloths, nervously grasped...

You can feature [whatever] in your [whatever], but this thread is specifically about how to replace demihumans and goblinoids in a high fantasy book to make it humanocentric.

The suggested ancestries would make an awesome Stone Age campaign. But the typical sword and sorcery setting is more Bronze Age (ziggurats, temples, cults, etc) plus some pockets of Medieval tech level. "Regular" humans (ie Homo Sapiens) will be the most common for player characters, but the...

Are you sure you are Zapp and not a helpful AI chatbot? :LOL: Yes, I agree it could be clearer. Since the Kickstarter for Shadowdark pulled in a cool 1 million USD, I kinda assumed that most folks here on EN World would be familiar with it...! I've edited the title and first paragraph slightly...

I forgot to mention that this reflavoring from high fantasy to swords and sorcery also works well for regular D&D, such as OD&D and even 5E (but the latter requires more restrictions and rework on available classes and magic, so you might instead want to check out the free Player's Guide to the...

I have recently been reading through Shadowdark RPG, published by The Arcane Library last year. Shadowdark is a rules-lite blend of OD&D and 5E. The main rulebook defaults to the standard D&D fantasy setting with elves and orcs. But since power levels are limited (character levels only go from...

Absolutely more Clark Ashton Smith than Lankhmar and Tolkien. (CAS needs to receive kudos whenever possible, he is one of the "Big Three" of Weird Tales, but significantly lesser known than HPL and REH.)

In the accursed city of Kumara, queen Natari rules with an iron fist. But the arrival of strangers stirs bloody intrigue! Will you uncover ancient secrets and escape alive, or become a slave of the moon? "Slaves of the Moon" is a stand-alone sword and sorcery adventure module, inspired by the...

Thanks for letting me know. There have been no changes in terms of hosting the file, and I didn't get any errors or warning when trying with Firefox myself. But in any case I noted that the original link used "http" instead of "https", I've now updated the link in my first post so it now uses...

Goodman Games forums about to close? That's a shame, do you know why? (Feel free to start a new thread if you prefer to keep that discussion separate from your main topic here.)

Renegade priests of the Living Flame have come to the court of the barbarian king of Azimba, bringing with them the secret of iron. As you become embroiled in the power struggle between the jungle kingdoms, will you profit, or will you fall to the new iron swords of Zimballah? "The Swords of...

Glad you like it! That's OK. People have different tastes.

Especially in 3E/PF, where planning that level advancement in excruciating detail all the way up to level 20 is its own little mini-game, which makes character creation take forever, and breaks the heart of the poor player when the "chosen one" dies on level 2 due to a bad die roll :LOL:

Thanks for the links! Someone said in one of those discussions that "If Levels 11-20 take as long as 1-10, or even longer, people burn out and campaigns falter." but that doesn't make sense to me... what is worse, that you burn out at level 15 and the campaign ends, or that you quickly reach...