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<blockquote data-quote="SmuggleNutz" data-source="post: 5942248" data-attributes="member: 6676793"><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>The Tears of Blood Campaign Setting</strong></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><a href="http://tears-of-blood.weebly.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Tears of Blood Campaign - Home</span></a> </span></span></strong><span style="color: #0000ff"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff"></span></span></span><span style="color: #0000ff"></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: red"><em><strong>Save your tears, my fetid friends, the dead have Wept enough!</strong></em></span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px">A homebrew campaign setting based on material originally appearing in the <strong>Tears of Blood</strong> forums on the Giant in The Playground website between 2004 and 2009, as well as additional new material. Updated for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, but usable with any D20 rules with a little tweaking.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Tears of Blood</strong> is designed to be a high-fantasy, gritty, and dangerous place. It is a world in which magic is common but suspect, and not accepted by all, for both the Divine and the Arcane proved useless against a devastating and unnatural plague. Called <strong>The Weeping</strong>, it left damaged or shattered civilizations in its wake and twisted wrecks of some of its survivors.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px">There is a new religion of <strong>Five Gods</strong>, there are new races (and retooling of existing ones), and of course new enemies. The core races are here, but slightly altered. <strong>Humans</strong> have new cultures and religions, <strong>Dwarves</strong> are organized into mercenary Clans, and in place of Half-elves we have the <strong>Feldarin</strong>, once the Imperial Overlords of the continent, now reduced to a fraction of their former power. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Elves</strong> were spawned from the Feldarin by a bargain made with a malevolent being with devastating consequences. <strong>Halflings</strong> are the Lords of the Seas, mysterious <strong>Gnomes</strong> ride great mechanical vessels and populate the realms both far beneath and high above the surface, and "<strong>Orrks</strong>" are deeply religious jungle dwellers with a penchant for sacrificial offerings. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px">New in this setting are the reflective <strong>Giantkin</strong>, the twisted <strong>Plaguetouched</strong> and the unnatural <strong>Fleshwrought</strong>.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Check us out at </span><span style="color: white"><a href="http://tears-of-blood.weebly.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 15px">Tears of Blood Campaign - Home</span></a></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Feedback welcome!</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SmuggleNutz, post: 5942248, member: 6676793"] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4][B]The Tears of Blood Campaign Setting[/B][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][URL="http://tears-of-blood.weebly.com/"][COLOR=#0000ff]Tears of Blood Campaign - Home[/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#0000ff] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B][COLOR=#0000ff] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][COLOR=#0000ff] [/COLOR][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=red][I][B]Save your tears, my fetid friends, the dead have Wept enough![/B][/I][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4]A homebrew campaign setting based on material originally appearing in the [B]Tears of Blood[/B] forums on the Giant in The Playground website between 2004 and 2009, as well as additional new material. Updated for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, but usable with any D20 rules with a little tweaking.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4][B]Tears of Blood[/B] is designed to be a high-fantasy, gritty, and dangerous place. It is a world in which magic is common but suspect, and not accepted by all, for both the Divine and the Arcane proved useless against a devastating and unnatural plague. Called [B]The Weeping[/B], it left damaged or shattered civilizations in its wake and twisted wrecks of some of its survivors.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4]There is a new religion of [B]Five Gods[/B], there are new races (and retooling of existing ones), and of course new enemies. The core races are here, but slightly altered. [B]Humans[/B] have new cultures and religions, [B]Dwarves[/B] are organized into mercenary Clans, and in place of Half-elves we have the [B]Feldarin[/B], once the Imperial Overlords of the continent, now reduced to a fraction of their former power. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4][B]Elves[/B] were spawned from the Feldarin by a bargain made with a malevolent being with devastating consequences. [B]Halflings[/B] are the Lords of the Seas, mysterious [B]Gnomes[/B] ride great mechanical vessels and populate the realms both far beneath and high above the surface, and "[B]Orrks[/B]" are deeply religious jungle dwellers with a penchant for sacrificial offerings. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4]New in this setting are the reflective [B]Giantkin[/B], the twisted [B]Plaguetouched[/B] and the unnatural [B]Fleshwrought[/B].[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4]Check us out at [/SIZE][COLOR=white][URL="http://tears-of-blood.weebly.com/"][SIZE=4]Tears of Blood Campaign - Home[/SIZE][/URL][/COLOR][/FONT] [SIZE=4]Feedback welcome![/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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