 | 100 Oddities for a Pilgrimage Trail Regular price: $2.09 Bundle price: $1.47 Format: PDF
| Welcome to 100 Oddities for a Pilgrimage Trail, the latest title in Skirmisher Publishing’s popular and ongoing “100 Oddities” series! For thousands of years — and especially since the era of the Middle Ages — people have been prompted to undertake spiritual journeys of various sorts and this concept in general, and the desire to help facilitate and inspire such quests was the motivation for the creation of this universal sourcebook.
This system-free thematic sourcebook contains an annotated list of 100 people, objects, conditions, or other things that characters might encounter on a trail dedicated to the veneration of some deity, demigod, hero, saint, or religion. It also contains a subtable for determining the characteristics of roadside markers and more than 60 illus...
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 | A Dozen New Druid Feats Regular price: $0.84 Bundle price: $0.49 Format: PDF
| Druids are the unquestioned masters of the natural world, with the ability to assume animal form and sway the forces of life and death in the wilds. This publication presents a dozen new feats for players and storytellers seeking to improve and customize the capabilities of their Druids, including ones that enhance such characters’ use of Wild Shape and Reincarnate. And, while these Feats are written for use with d20 v.3.5 Druids, they can be easily modified for use with the Pathfinder RPG and other OGL-based games. ...
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 | Festivals & High Holy Days Regular price: $0.69 Bundle price: $0.49 Format: PDF
| Every calendar is peppered with holidays and annual causes for celebration. From local village festivals to grand revels that consume empires, no campaign setting is complete without holidays to mark the passage of time with jubilation and ritual observance. In addition to adding greater realism and flavor to campaign, holidays also offer unique benefits to adventurers who celebrate during downtime or take a break from their quests to get into the spirit of the season.
"Festivals & High Holy Days" contains entries for a dozen holidays and details on how to use them in role-playing games, to include the benefits they can bestow upon those participating in them.
This mini-sourcebook has been specifically designed for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game but can be use...
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 | In the Footsteps of Hercules Regular price: $8.49 Bundle price: $4.92 Format: PDF
| In the Footsteps of Hercules is a system-free sourcebook devoted to a pilgrimage trail that can be used in conjunction with any fantasy role-playing game. This book describes the various sections of the trail and the prevailing terrain and conditions associated with them; how most pilgrims travel them; alternate ways some pilgrims choose to approach the trail overall or specific parts of it; the things they generally hope to accomplish along the way; and things they might encounter on it.
It contains a detailed entry on the title pilgrimage trail and entries on thirteen other places, communities, or events, including a bathhouse, farm, hermitage, hospital, hostel, monastery, oracle, port, shrine, stables, temple, tournament ground, and trade fair.
There are many ways this b...
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 | Mysterious Relics: Pantheon-Specific Temple Objects & Furnishings Regular price: $1.39 Bundle price: $0.98 Format: PDF
| In addition to religious trappings common to the temples of many lands and gods — like altars and deities’ holy symbols — certain objects, furnishings, sacred animals, and other items of a ritual nature might be found only in the shrines of specific deities or pantheons. Relics also often have very narrow functions and are frequently affiliated with specific cults or sects within a temple, such as those that might use the item in question as part of secret rites in hidden areas. Depending on their uses, such items might either be in plain sight or concealed in special areas.
“Mysterious Relics” examines the various objects, furnishings, garb, accouterments, and items associated with temples and other holy sites and provides as examples a dozen ancient holy items associated with...
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 | Rogue's Nightmare Regular price: $1.69 Bundle price: $0.98 Format: PDF
| After nearly perishing with his companions in the sprawling ruined necropolis in the hills outside of Kos City, wily rogue Paros walked away with the biggest score of his life and was able to set himself up with the alchemy workshop he had always dreamed of. He brought back more than just loot, however, and since then his actual dreams, and increasingly even his waking hours, are haunted by the shade of the beautiful woman he encountered in the subterranean catacombs. Now, he must seek out a means of exorcizing himself of the unquiet spirit before she can further disrupt or even ruin his life.
“Rogue’s Nightmare” is a self-standing swords-and-sorcery fantasy short story by author R.M. Aislin that takes place in the Swords of Kos Fantasy Campaign Setting, a Dark Ages ...
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 | Six Spells: Festivities Regular price: $0.35 Bundle price: $0.25 Format: PDF
| Many games focus solely on the combat aspects of magic, but in a fantasy world such powers can do almost anything. Spellcasters from more peaceful magical traditions might specialize in promoting health and the social good, often using the six spells described in this publication to enliven harvest festivals and other celebrations (but crafty players could, of course, use them in many situations).
"Six Spells: Festivities" is stat'ed for the "Basic version of the d20/OGL game system and can be used as-is or easily adapted for any RPGs using the same core rules. ...
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 | Stories from the Northern Myths Regular price: $3.39 Bundle price: $1.97 Format: PDF
| “Stories from the Northern Myths” delves into some of the tales that directly influenced 20th century fantasy literature in general and its most famous exemplar, The Lord of the Rings, in particular. This historical reprint covers legends that include the cursed hoard of the Rhine Gold and the ring associated with it that corrupts and transforms its owners; the adventures of the Germanic hero Siegfried, reminiscent in many ways of the Classical heroes Achilles and Hercules; and the story of Baldur, most beloved of the gods, who was slain through the trickery and malice of the deity Loki.
Author James Baldwin (1841–1925) was an American educator who was widely published as an author on subjects that included biography, folklore, literature, and mythology. This edition of...
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 | Swords of Kos: Hekaton Regular price: $0.69 Bundle price: $0.49 Format: PDF
| “Hekaton” is a short story that looks at a chaotic annual street festival through the eyes of a veteran guard officer trying to keep order in his particularly troublesome area of the city and put together the pieces of incidents that have caught his attention. Join Captain Ivan Pieger, commander of the prestigious Hippodrome Commanderie, as he deals with the 100th annual celebration of the victory of the Olympian Gods over the Great Old Ones known as the Titans.
“Hekaton” takes place in the Swords of Kos Fantasy Campaign Setting, a swords-and-sorcery milieu set in a Dark Ages fantasy version of the Aegean and the lands surrounding it. A century after a Great Cataclysm destroyed the old world, plunged it into chaos, and reawakened magic and all form of ancient races and monsters...
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 | The Jester Dragon's Random Cult Generator Regular price: $0.69 Bundle price: $0.48 Format: PDF
| Cults threaten adventurers, civilization, and the existence of the universe itself. Whether they are sacrificing virgins, summoning tentacled horrors, or infiltrating every level of society, it is inevitable that your heroes are going to have a run-in with cultists at some point in their adventuring careers. And, after all, hidden temples hold the best treasure and no one builds them like a cult. But you’re a busy Game Master and have more important things to do than agonize over creating a new secret religion every week. So, once again, the Jester Dragon is ready to do all the hard work for you, with a series of tables allowing you to quickly roll up every aspect of a sinister cult, from the god it worships to the color of the priest’s robes. Grab your d100s, say a quick prayer to Gr...
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 | Vault of the Sea Goddess Regular price: $2.54 Bundle price: $1.47 Format: PDF
| A hundred years ago, the Great Cataclysm caused the lighthouse of Amphitritos to fall into the sea and, with it, the crystal trident that for long years had guided mariners safely through the islands of the Dodecanese. Now, three adventurers, pious rogue Neeko, Aigyptian warrior Kari, and Gnome artificer Zopee, have sought out the ancient site in a quest to retrieve the holy relic and restore it to the purpose for which is was intended. While they are prepared to descend into and explore the depths, however, there are hazards and evils concealed within them that will put their abilities to the ultimate test …
“Vault of the Sea Goddess” is an exciting, self-standing swords-and-sorcery fantasy short story by author and game developer Octavius Knorr that takes place in the bestselling...
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