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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...

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...

Back in 2005, Dean Martin and I--co-founders of Sword's Edge Publishing--planned to create a series of linked modules that could be run as individual one-shots or as an entire campaign. When Dean Martin left SEP, the project was left on the table. Not one to waste hard work, SEP is putting what...

Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the podosphere, Warpig Radio gets hit by some Collateral from the Accidental Survivors. A concentrated burst of the inspiration and opinion listeners have come to expect from the Accidental Survivors, Collateral is a weekly podcast on...

In 988 AD, a warband of vikings, a Magyar nomad, and a Byzantine scholar, linked by destiny, seek the mysterious Bulgar Gold. Both gods and men oppose them. Will they survive? Will they gain the power and riches fate has promised them? Or will they die somewhere in Gardariki, the land of...

Trapped in a dungeon of 10 X 10 rooms? Trying desperately to get your group into the modern world? In Getting Modernized, the Accidental Survivors discuss how they have tricked, cajoled, threatened and otherwise persuaded groups to play in the modern genre. While headlocks, chokeholds, and...

Two Cows! Chris Engler, the Wapcaptain and fellow Canuck, is acting in a very anti-Scrooge manner and we at Sword's Edge Publishing want to get all Tiny Tim with his festive idea. Here it is--buy some cows. I'll let him explain it (from the website): "Recent news has been focused on economic...

It's the end of the world as we know it, and the Accidental Survivors will attempt to profit from that any way they can. Their first plan? A) podcast about the apocalypse. B) ? C) Profit! I love this plan and can see no fault in it. La-la-la, I can't hear you.

The first episode of the GenCon Survivors Interviews has been released. GCS Interview 01 is with Eric Wiener of Paradigm Concepts discussing Witch Hunter: the Invisible World. The content has had minor editing, but all the important stuff is still in there. You can find out more about the...

What's GCS? It stands for GenCon Survivors, the Accidental Survivors who attended GenCon 2008. Episodes on the GenCon Survivors feed will include content recorded on the way to or at GenCon, including interviews and one DVD commentary. The sound quality is very poor. The language is very...

Which is also the title of my blog post outing my pure gamer-love for Green Ronin's rules. Just wanted to also post here because I'm just really, really digging these rules. It's a true epiphany, though not necessarily on the road to Damascus. The more I read, the more enthralled I become. In...

Just when you thought it was safe to go to Indianapolis . . . oh, wait, it is safe now, since the Accidental Survivors have left the building. And by building I mean the convention centre which hosted GenCon. But even though the Survivors are gone, their thoughts remain. Possibly forever. Now...

Disgusting. Creepy. Icky. While these words and more may describe the Accidental Survivors, this time they refer to the subject of the latest episode, Garden Variety Monsters. Think of the spiders, rats and cockroaches. No think of using them in your game. Now listen to the Accidental Survivors...

The Cyber-state--you can call it the Web, the Net, Cyberspace, or the Electric Boogaloo, it's the network space that connects computers and information in the near future. The Avatar--that's the representation of your character as that character surfs the spaceways of the Cyber-State. The...

Go-Play Ottawa is a kind of mini-con, hopefully an annual event, but just getting started in Ottawa, Ontario. It’s been announced on the Go-Play Ottawa website that the mini-con is on for July 26th from noon to 9 PM. If you are in the Ottawa area, go check out the info and plan to attend.