[MörkBorg] Warsprites

[This is an adaption of this article of mine to the Mörk Borg RPG] Warsprites are murderous spirits that come into being on sites of great bloodshed, like battlefields, which they haunt. They have the appearance of androgynous naked humans with sinewy bodies but without genitalia. The face is frozen in a mask-like fierce or […]

[OSR] Bear with me! -D20 Bear Monsters

Over at mewe.com, Samwise 7 had shared a post about an amazingly gigantic, now-extinct kind of bear from 11.000 years ago (the “Short-faced Bear”). If you think that a rearing grizzly is tall, than you will find this thing towering. Anyway, it sparked some post about “when in doubt which monster to use in OSR […]

[LotFP/OSR] Warsprites

Warsprites are murderous spirits that come into being on sites of great bloodshed, like battlefields, which they haunt. They have the appearance of androgynous naked humans with sinewy bodies but without genitalia. The face is frozen in a mask-like fierce or cruel expression. The being floats a few inch over the ground it walks on […]

[LotFP/OSR] Hollow Crawler

A Hollow Crawler is a creature not form this world but born from a devouring void of darkness, desperation and desolation.  They appear as a kind of fat and worm-like centipedes with a thin tail at the end of their body and no head at the start. Instead, there is just an opening into the […]

[LotFP/OSR] The Golden Lion & the Sanctuary of Fire

Somewhere hidden in a forest at the foot of mountain, there is a small stone structure. Small and angular, reminiscent of a shrine of Roman or Greek architecture. Several stone steps lead up to an elevated, open doorway. Anybody that approaches the steps will be meet by the guardian of the place: from the shadows […]

[LotFP] Black Demon Dog of Depression

In the past I suffered from nervous breakdowns, burn-out and depression. Like a lot of people did and do. Everyone that ever went through therapy will at some point have heard an analogy where depression is described as a black dog that follows you around, that you cannot shake off, that gets in the way, […]

[OSR] Monsters of October 2022#Part 05

October 2022. Halloween is creeping closer. Why not release a few more monsters into the countryside? Aren´t there villages to be terrorized? Perhaps even destroyed? See Zzarchov Kowolski´s „Rampaging Monsters“ for inspirations for such a scenario. Here comes the fifth of this mini-series of blog posts: welcome the Moonhound.

[OSR] Monsters of October 2022#Part 04

October 2022. Halloween is creeping closer. Why not release a few more monsters into the countryside? Aren´t there villages to be terrorized? Perhaps even destroyed? See Zzarchov Kowolski´s „Rampaging Monsters“ for inspirations for such a scenario. Here comes the fourth of this mini-series of blog posts: welcome the Whistling Pete.