Showing posts with label Map. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Map. Show all posts

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Commentary On The Free OSR Resource - Nellysyr manor For The Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea System and Your Old School Sword and Sorcery Campaigns On The Dark Corner Blog



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Strange things appear in the moonlight of Hyperborea and thanks to this free download from the good folks at Dragon's foot you can torture your PC's with a brand new manor house or ruin. Here's a bit of commentary on this free download, perfect for your old school sword and sorcery campaigns 

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Commentary On The Free OSR Map Resource From Dragon's Foot - Indell Keep For Your Old School Sword and Sorcery Campaign





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The Dragon Foot Blurb:
A small bastion of hope and protection or greed and avarice. Depends on who has the bigger sword and the will to use it.

 Indell Keep is just the sort of a map pack that is flexible enough to have a multiplicity of uses. The location maps are well done,crisp, and though they date back more then a couple of years the author/artist does a really nice job with this one. You can almost imagine this location cropping up in some 80's sword and sorcery movie.This castle could over look a village as the long line of overlords or paladins stares down around them
 This location clocks in at eight pages but manages to pack a lot in. The castle might also be used by your favorite galatic alien tyrant as well. This castle could be used as the former head quarters to a long forgotten group of knights of the Imperial Order now fallen into ruin. The key of the castle gives a few other options spelled out in D&D terms but its easily convertible to any number of editions of the grand game.
This location can also lend itself to a post apocalyptic adventure quite easily and its been a stand in a few times for a castle that was taken high into the Hollywood hills that over looks a zombie ridden California valley.
 The options for Astonishing Swords men And Sorcerers for Hyperborea in my own campaign has been a long forgotten series of castles along a border that have fallen into ruin as the Green Death was spread along between two proto European kingdoms. The castles have fallen into ruin and disrepair. The explorations on them have begun. There is a definite flare of the pulp about the castles and something of the knights of the realm still lurking on the edges of this free pdf. All in all I like this castle and I've used it a few times for a quick one shot game. 

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Commentary On The Free OSR MAP Resource From Dragon's Foot - Hallyk & Rumfords Tower For Your Old School Sword and Sorcery Campaign


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This is a very nicely put together tower location on a river with a number of surrounding locations. The style of this download makes it very easy to use in a number of old school editions. For myself AS&SH sprung to mind immediately.
The Blurb from Dragon's foot :
Located on a small outcropping of rock in the middle of a river. This is a small but defensible tower. Access is by both inland and to the sea due to the outflow from the interior swamplands and the inflow from the sea. Dare you disturb the owners?
This is an eleven page Pdf with some really nicely laid out elements, the download dates back to 2000 and is generic enough to be used in a wide variety of campaigns. The author details his own placement of the tower and their is a solid background that could be incorporated into your own campaigns. The material here feels like it could be place in a number  areas of Hyperborea with little problem.
This same tower could host itself in a game of Mutant Future as well. Seriously this is exactly the type of thing that might be found around the Great Lakes region or any large body of post apocalyptic fresh water. There's lots of room to do a fair amount of DYI with this location as a DM. The maps here even give figures for scale to help a DM with placement of other elements for adventure creation.
 All in all I think that this is a really nice download to use in your games. A really nice little product for free download. 

Saturday, April 19, 2014

Commentary On The Free Dragon's Foot OSR Map Resource - Dracolidius Castle For Your Old School Sword and Sorcery Campaign On The Dark Corner Blog


Need a sinister castle for your PC's to explore, an out of the way piece of real estate that screams adventure? We've got a castle with all the trimmings just add PC's and monsters! So its off to adventure right over