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"Acolyte of Darkness" Adomthra Gaus, the treacherous captain of the guard was as good as his word, apart from a few dozen screaming and fleeing peasants he has guided your small group safely and swiftly through Zhul-Bazzir's maze of back-alleys all the way to the tower of Abon-Tha. Now you...

It feels like you are flogging a dead horse at this point. It's really not that hard, not much more than a basic sandbox setup, ie. one settlement, a wilderness, some adventure locations, a couple of antagonists, a rumour table. Sword and Sorcery is not that complicated, and coming up with an...

Perhaps not :P I'm more thinking of typical PCs here ...

This might help: http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2008/10/picaro-and-story-of-d.html

Written for the "Hyperborea" rpg but will work with any system RANDOM SWORD & SORCERY ADVENTURE GENERATOR Written by Ben Ball http://www.hyperborea.tv/uploads/4/4/6/6/44662451/asshrandom-adv-gen.pdf

I am not even sure "village" and "townsfolk" especially fits that well with sword & sorcery. The protagonists are frequently in cities, in the wilderness, desert, ruin, temple, tomb, not so much knocking around with the standard d&d locations of 'village and castle' or spending too much time...

Are you sure about that? Sorcery can do big stuff and look very flashy in S&S.

Monster Island, an excellent campaign supplement for RuneQuest6/Mythras (and most BRP games) has some suggestions in its Campaign chapter. The chapter discusses these at length but these are the headlines: First, this campaign supplement happens to be a sandbox which has its own definitions...

I am sorry, but you need to do some more research into tabletop RPGs if you think computer games invented that mode of play. Even your own link demonstrates this.

The term 'sandbox' was popularised by computer games, but it was in use long before any computer game, and the implementation when it did happen was inspired by RPGs. Aside from a mode of RPG play, which was well established in the 1970s, there were campaign books published which supported...

Nothing which I can see has not already been said in other media. All computer rpgs do is take a sample slices of RPGs and re-present them in some form. There is no "lesson" I have seen coming from a videogame which might be useful for a TTRPG which could not be found in earlier games or other...

RuneQuest and all BRP games use some kind of magic points based on the Pow attribute (Power), even Call of Cthulhu. Mythras (was RuneQuest 6) uses magic points in different ways for most of its magic systems. Folk Magic and sorcery do. Mysticism uses magic points but consumes them very fast...

#2 - Spirits of Trademark Infringement is clearly the best image. #1 is too busy, too much in there and/or the composition is messing it up. #3 is too simple a rip-off which says "we have absolutely no imagination". #4 says "your characters flee on bikes while the interesting stuff is happening...

In a world of dinosaurs, don't forget the giant insects ... [Warning: extreme insect horror]

http://realmsofchirak.blogspot.com/2013/07/runequest-monster-island-overview.html Includes: (list taken from Realms of Chirak above) Adaro (shark men, samebito) Ahuizotl Alan (moon bats) Alicanto Allosaurus Ankylosaurus Giant Ant Lion Carnivorous Ape Arumco (hellfrog) Assassin Conch (terrifying...

He pronounced it tol-keen.

There are three kinds of book owners. The first has all the standard sets and best-sellers—unread, untouched. (This deluded individual owns wood-pulp and ink, not books.) The second has a great many books—a few of them read through, most of them dipped into, but all of them as clean and shiny...

You could run a satisfying game of Night's Black Agents without the vampires, you just need to create a non-vampire conspiracy setup that's interesting enough. The "Mythic Britain" campaign is almost low-magic enough to run as a purely historical campaign as it is, the same could be said for...

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I don't use location maps like that anymore. If I use an image it will be an impression of the scene, not a map. That said this looks like a good approach as one of my objections to stuff like this is that its a tremendous amount of work to faff about making fancy maps, especially if you don't...