This necklace is adorned with brightly colored glass beads that bear a striking resemblance to potion bottles.
Variant Rules for 'Castle Risk'!
With an eye to giving people something fun they can use to punch up one of their old boardgames, gamedev Michael O. Varhola has created some variant rules “Castle Risk” version of the “Risk”!
The Ophidecimo: A Serpentine Spell Book for 5e
This well worn 3 lbs tome is made from fine vellum pages bound in a cover of gleaming snakeskin with an image of a winding serpent emblazoned on the cover in hammered copper.
‘The Call of CthulWho’ Shoutout to our Followers!
Iä! Iä! CthulWho Fhtagn! If you have been following but not yet backed this campaign, or are looking at it for the first time, this would be an ideal time for you to come on board with it. Here are some great reasons to support it now:
'Freshwater Monsters & Hazards' Released by Skirmisher!
Skirmisher Publishing is pleased to announce its release of a revised, updated, and expanded edition of game developer Derek Holland's "Freshwater Monsters & Hazards"!
'The Call of CthulWho' Preview Video
Iä! Iä! CthulWho Fhtagn! Skirmisher Publishing is excited to announce that it has launched a Kickstarter campaign for “The Call of CthulWho,” a complete, self-standing, MythosPunk RPG adventure!
Dead Space Conversion Collection
This catch-all index for all of game developer Chris Van Deelen’s Dead Space RPG conversions, including weapons and armor.
Gates of Hell (D&D 5E Artifact & Monsters)
This artifact inspired by the description of the Gates of Hell in the "Inferno" of Medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri is based on the similarly-inspired bronze sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin.
Skirmisher's ‘The Call of CthulWho’ First Stretch Goal Unlocked!
Hitting the $1,000 mark for this campaign will allow us to provide backers with a full set of electronic tokens and avatars for the character monsters and various guards, scientists, and other creatures associated with this scenario.
What Would Buddha Play?
While doing researching games played in ancient and Medieval India, I stumbled across what is apparently the earliest known list of games, dating to the 5th or 6th century B.C.!
‘The Call of CthulWho’ Skirmisher Kickstarter Funded!
Iä! Iä! CthulWho Fhtagn! Thanks to all 31 of the great people who have backed Skirmisher Publishing’s campaign for “The Call of CthulWho” and funded it 100% in just two days!
Oddities for a Ren Faire
What could be more amusingly odd than Renaissance Faires, whose quirkiness starts with that extraneous “e” that they somehow need to have? This post contains some of the weird things, some truer to life than we might like to admit, that one might find at places of this sort …
'Call of CthulWho' Mythos Horror Kickstarter Launched by Skirmisher!
Skirmisher Publishing is excited to announce that it has launched a Kickstarter campaign for “The Call of CthulWho,” a complete, self-standing, Mythos Punk RPG adventure!
Starfinder: Ahl
Ahl are creatures who originate on an alternate plane of existence. The home of these creatures is pure black, where no light has ever reached. It is cold and anything that manages to find themselves in this dimension quickly succumb to the environment, dying a horrible, lonely death.
New Epic Boons for D&D 5E
Official boons are very generic and this article includes some new and more exciting examples that apply to specific classes, races, backgrounds, and alignments.
Getting Older: Aging in D&D 5E
New rules for age progression, be it the normal progression of time, the abnormal progression of time in another plane, or accelerated aging caused by a curse of other supernatural effect.
Charon (D&D 5E Epic Fantasy Monster)
Charon is a Lich-like undead monster who dwells on the banks of the Styx in the underworld and is tasked with ferrying the souls of the dead from one side of the gloomy river to the other. His vessel is an ancient Egyptian-style funerary barge that is propelled by a half-dozen animated oars on each side.
Variant Size Giant Scorpions (D&D 5E Monsters)
Oversized scorpions are especially common in places that are warm, particularly areas with active volcanoes or other geological activity, and are almost omnipresent in subterranean locales.
Wand of the Fungal Lord for 5e
Wands of the Fungal Lord are not crafted so much as they are grown by myconid sovereigns and half-mad druids in lightless caverns suffused with mystical darkness and swirling luminescent spores.
Brown Dragon, Adult (D&D 5E Monster)
Following is a writeup and stats for an Adult Brown Dragon, one of the creatures that appears in Skirmisher Publishing’s sourcebook on "Men & Monsters of Ethiopia"!