Timothy Westwind

I'd like to run a solo game in a 'Dark Fantasy TM' home-brew world. I'm thinking of a late Antiquity to early Middle Ages technology level, perhaps inspired by the Byzantine / Eastern Roman Empire. I'll aim for a low to medium level of magic and the fantastical, perhaps some magi-tech. More fantastical than what I play with in my Sword & Sorcery Sundaland game  with the IronSworn system  but less so than the standard D&D fantasy world.  I'm considering a couple of different systems. Some of the things I'd like to have in the system. 1. Less 'narrative' than IronSworn but not too crunchy.  2. Characters are not (too) constricted by class.  3. Interesting character progression and customisation, not just +1s 4. Ability to adjust the level of magic easily. 3. Lots of content and adventures for me to use or borrow from. The systems I'm considering are: Adventurer Conquerer King II : This is a D&D variant that has a lot of rules for creati...

It used to be the case that everyone knew that orcs were bad and that you should have no problem dispatching them in your game. Unfortunately over the years orcs have been given more and more human qualities to the point where some people now feel uncomfortable treating them as inherently evil.  An easy way to side-step that is by having the adversaries be various kind of undead. I like to use undead beast-men as the go-to bad guys. I just imagine necromancers casting dark sorcery on flocks of dead goats and sheep, turning them into an army of undead. They are already dead, they have no culture, no feelings and no free-will. You're doing them and the world a favour by destroying them.

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