Fantasy

A collection of 110 posts

Adventure Prompt

Question of Sevens

As places to find an egg go, under your pillow is one of the odder ones. This particular egg is tiny, and beautiful to look at … but where did it come from? What laid it? Why was it under your pillow, of all the places?!

Adventure Prompt

Query of Sevens

This is late, I apologise. It is said that knowledge is power. It is also said that the owner of this book has the power to become anything, to do anything, to go anywhere… it is said that the owner of this book could be a deity, if they wished

Adventure Prompt

Question of Sevens

The first rush of spring is past, the crops have been planted deep in the welcoming earth and the first shoots are starting to show. Now, if you could just figure out what’s digging up the radishes this time …

Adventure Prompt

Question of Sevens

The grove has been a source of peace since you were a child. Always, there has been something not entirely real about it, a sense of there being more…

3.5e

Looking for Players: Games Still Recruiting

If anyone has a game that they are looking for players for that I didn’t catch, please feel free to send me a note; I would be happy to list your game in the Oracle. In the meantime; if you are looking for a game and are familiar with

Adventure Prompt

Question of Sevens

Meant to post this before we left, completely forgot. Sorry guys.No one likes going through that doorway. Sometimes you hear things, like an echo of voices. Sometimes, less often, you swear you see something out of the corner of your eye.. a reaching hand, a screaming maw…Most times,

2e

Games Looking for Players

We’ve got two GMs still looking for players, and probably more I am unaware of. Looking for a game? Maybe one of these is up your alley.20AM (2e AD&D)“Where were you? What happened to you? You learned magic was real. Saw magic, dragons, demons, spell casting,

Communication

GM's Tip of the Week

One thing I hear a lot is that GMing is like herding cats. Not going to say it can’t be, but there are reasons I keep stressing communication and one of them is that it will make your life easier down the line, and result in much, much, much

Adventure Prompt

Question of Sevens

Spring has sprung, and it hasn’t stopped raining… but everything around you is behaving as if it isn’t raining at all..

Board games

Kickstarters of Note

Hello again, fellow Portalites, and welcome to another round of Kickstarters of Note wherein I have found… well, a board game reincarnated, a card game and a possible addition to the GM’s – or author’s – toolbox. There’s probably a lot more; there are an assortment of miniatures being

2e

Question of Sevens

It’s a nice hat, which is part of what makes it so odd that it’s just sitting there, by the side of the road.

Adventure Prompt

Question of Sevens

Nothing of note, nothing overt. But bad luck, the one constant in the past few months. So, a little bowl of milk, left on the doorstep. An old horse shoe, nailed to the door frame, like a cup… nothing seems to help.

2e

Game Looking for Players: 20 AM

Mestropil is looking for players for 20 AM, using the AD&D second edition rules. Man was given all the knowledge of magic. Belief in it was truly returned to the people of Earth. The Dimensional rifts did open and the wars did happen. People of Earth learned that there

3.5e

Game Looking for Players: Breaking the Siege

GeneCortess has a new game up in the 3.5e section; Breaking the Siege. A small town is dying; and your character is one of a small group who made it through unmolested. To save the town, or die with it? That’s up to you. More details can be

5e

Kickstarters of Note

Hello, fellow Portalites!Have a look at what I’ve found for you! We have .. well, the usual mixed bag, really. Studio Foglio has their latest Girl Genius book out, there’s a board game for the DC crowd, and anyone else who does the superhero genre, and for our

Adventure Prompt

Question of Sevens

It was understood; no one went out on the night of the new moon. From dusk to dawn, no matter the season, everyone and everything was indoors, behind shutters bound with iron and bay.An easy thing, to leave a shutter ajar. To slip out into the star-gilded night… and

Adventure Prompt

Question of Sevens

The cup was an unremarkable thing turned from steel, once polished to a blinding shine, now showing a pattern of bloody rust. Stolen. Sold. Given away…. it always came back.

2e

GM's Tip of the Week

To Prestige Class or not to Prestige Class …Well, that depends on the player, the campaign and how much hassle you might be willing to go through if it doesn’t work out. This, admittedly, is specific to systems that have Prestige Classes, or PrCs. If your group plays GURPS

books

Kickstarters of Note

Hello, fellow Portalites!Another edition of Kickstarters of Note; not a large selection, but I suspect that most of you won’t have a problem with that. There’s some dice, and some blue prints and a colouring book, and probably a lot more that I didn’t stumble over,

Adventure Prompt

Question of Sevens

It’s an ordinary candy box. It’s been passed down, sure; in the family for generations. Your mother put hard candies in it. Your grandma put fudge in it. Her grandma … well. You know. You said you’d never bother making candy to fill the dish.  But now it’

Adventure Prompt

Question of Sevens

At first, it looked like a toothpick. Then, the tiny fletching, the even tinier needle-point became obvious. And now, one has to wonder… is this why everyone has been acting so odd..?

Adventure Prompt

Question of Sevens

Winter breathes a last breath of cold. Signs of spring begin to show themselves … with unusual vigour. The briars haven’t been this invasive in decades.

City-based

GM's Tip of the Week

Since I don’t really have a lot of experience actually /playing/ one of these two classes, I thought I’d go over a little bit of what you could theoretically do with them, provided you weren’t running the kind of campaign where one could traditionally expect to find

Adventure Prompt

Question of Sevens

The night sky is full of wonders; a sea of lights sparkling just for you. Shooting stars are nothing new; you have seen dozens. Never one that landed anywhere you could get to, though …

Bag

Kickstarters of Note

We go from famine to feast, this week; I have all kinds of shiny things to show you guys, from miniatures to board games to dice, and even a sack to carry it all in! Kickstarter’s a dangerous wilderness of shiny objects, I know. Remember, folks, downtime this weekend