Redramadon

  EYE OF THE GORGON: Character Creation Character creation rules for my Sword & Sorcery game. Abilities: Your character has 6 abilities STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA Abilities vary from -3 to +3 with 0 being average. Roles: Warrior - wandering mercenaries who live by the blade Rogue - specialists, adventurers and opportunists; tomb robbers and explorers Sorcerer - delves into knowledge best left buried, channels chaos into spells, makes pacts with spirits and powers Cultist - attracts followers to their cause, channels the power of an ancient and/or alien god Choose a background: Sword and Sorcery games are focused on humans but the humans in the settings often come from very diverse backgrounds. Their geographic origin and ethnicity adds a distinctive flavor to the setting. In addition there is a relatively broad range of levels of civilization, from sophisticated city-states to primitive warbands: Origin Cultural shorthand Civilization Attribute bonus Classes available Lost valley...

Saturn Now were the Titans gathered round their king In a waste region slipping toward the verge Of drear extremities that clasp the world— A land half-moulded by the hasty gods, Grotesque, misfeatured, blackly gnarled with stone, And left beneath the bright scorn of the stars; Or worn and marred from conflict with the deep, Conterminate, of Chaos. Here they stood, Old Saturn midmost, like a central peak Among the lesser mounts that guard its base. Defeat, that gloamed within each countenance Like the first tinge of death, upon a sun Gathering like some dusk vapor, found them cold, Heavy of limb, and halting as with weight Of threatened worlds and trembling firmaments. A wind cried round them like a trumpet-voice Of phantom hosts—hurried, importunate, And intermittent with a tightening fear. Far off the sunset sprang, and the hard clouds, Molten among the peaks, seemd furnaces In which to make the fetters of the world. Seared by the lightning of the younger gods, They saw, beyond the...