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Sukri gasps a curse as he staggers away. Painful jolts follow every breath. His abdomen is slick with blood. The brush hinders any retreat. Shaking, he faces his attacker and stands his ground. "I'll gut you like a pig!" Sukri cries in his mother tongue, bracing himself for the moment to...

104) Joined a satyr's bacchanalia and had a Hangover-style adventure catching up with the group.

Breath of the Earth (12.28) While ghouls and gnolls compete for the Singing Waste's rocks and sand, the Nekh rule the skies. The Nekh are a matriarchal race of large vultures blessed with intelligence and an extra set of talons, which they use to craft tools and wield sophisticated bone...

I agree with Sanglorian's points, especially about the features per hex. But I think expanding each hex to 8 miles would help in making travel a bit more of a challenge without diluting the setting too much. I think travelling, on average, 2 hexes a day opposed to 3 could do a lot to make the...

Abbalah-doon, Village of Outcasts 15.28 Male gnolls who reach a certain age and cannot find favor with a matriarch and those who willingly renounce gnollish culture are forced to spend their remaining years in the remote village of Abbalah-doon. The village is an ancient spiral of bone huts...

Sukri draws his dagger and tosses a pebble at Eban that bounces off his boot. "Man in the woods," he mouths, pointing to where the figure vanished. "Tell others." Sukri swallows as he sets off after his quarry, wishing he were dashing through a back alley or along a rooftop instead of hurtling...

99) A woolly mammoth crashes through the village palisade, destroying buildings and shouting one of the characters' names. 100) One night, a character spies his love interest laying eggs beside a stream.

86) You went to check on beasts of burden at mouth of dungeon and found them gone! Spent the session tracking down the thieves and bringing the animals back. 87) Received dire omen in a dream and decided not to take your chances.

Sukri, with his lopsided grin, bobs his head at Libros assessment and pokes around the clearing, looking for any remaining signs of struggle, before peering into the open door.

Viceroy Orhan's Madness Additional information about (19.31) Jahur has been on edge since Viceroy Orhan, the city's treasurer, was attacked in his bedchamber last month. He escaped by throwing himself into the pool beneath his window, but his severe blunt force trauma wounds would have killed...

Village of Shotwick (14.14) Shotwick is known through Thring as a village with unusually reliable harvests and hearty peasants. The folk of Shotwick seem so healthy that they are even spared from the ravages of plague. Many believe these peasants are of a naturally stronger stock, a belief that...

Sukri unlaced his boots and cooled his feet in the water for a moment. He slung his boots around his neck and trudged uphill barefoot until he caught up to Bayar. "We are no longer in the village," Sukri said in a low voice, "so I will tell you what I think. Henri is kidnapped. Someone who...

Hey, did someone say self-indulgent rambling? Cradle of Fire Centipedes (17.30) Connected to (19.31) The eastern Tantalus Mountains are dotted with abandoned gem mines from Jahur's centuries of mining operations. One such mine has been converted into a secret prison guarded by Janissaries and...

Sukri works at his second bowl of stew much slower than his first. Kovic sweeps the floor around him before finally retiring. Sukri has the common room to himself. He takes a final spoonful of the stew and ambles to the hearth. In the light of the embers, he retrieves the box and picks at it.

35) You lost a favorite item. Maybe it was misplaced, or it was stolen by a flock of tiny crow men. Regardless, you refused to continue until it was found. The item is back in the inventory at the beginning of next session, of course. 36) Helped a friendly farmer with a calf's birth. Make a...

Thanks! Can't take credit for the art, though. I google searched "pagan symbol" and that was the coolest thing on page 4. B-)

I think an absent player can be a good hook if you spin it right. 1) Character attended a wedding. Subtract 3d10 gold for a wedding gift. Make a charisma check to see if you rekindled an important relationship. 2) Character was observing a holy day. Did it entail fasting, feasting, meditation...

78) An ominous emblem begins appearing in tapestries, paintings, engravings, etc. across the city. More and more manifest every day. Only a few people seem to notice them. Meanwhile, there has been an alarming increase in tragic accidents from the lowest to the highest citizens. 79) A pack of...

Sukri felt settled enough to begin his second bowl of stew. He tossed his head to the old man who had told them about the guard tower. "Many things can use a ruined tower, uncle," he said. "What should we watch for? Goblins, spiders...?"

Hey, I sketched out a few world-building details about the mysterious emblem on Sukri's box. Doghead and ghostcat (I showed Libros a sketch IC), here's the emblem and some ideas about what it could mean. Feel free to expand on it: Possibilities: 1) The sign of Illuminati-style wizard...