Posts Tagged ‘sword & sorcery’

Beasts & Barbarians: Session 7 – Death of a Tyrant finale

Posted on January 19th, 2013 under , , , , . Posted by

Shaper and Maker

Spoilers warning! This session actually reminded me of my Ptolus 4E campaign, with a difference of things happening instantly instead of calculating helpless villain’s hitpoints from thousands to zero. But let’s start from where the heroes end…

Beasts and Barbarians: Death of a Tyrant, parts II & III

Posted on November 4th, 2012 under , , , , . Posted by

Shaper and Maker

Warning: This post contains spoilers from the adventure! As we were playing in the middle of the week and were able to start closer to 9pm, we weren’t able to get very far this time; This was the first session with no combats, we started right…

Beasts & Barbarians: Session 4 – Death of a tyrant

Posted on July 20th, 2012 under , , , . Posted by

Shaper and Maker

A week ago I run the first part of Death of a Tyrant, one of GRAmel’s published adventures. While I don’t like published adventures much, I bought this for it’s background information but liked it enough to run it. If you keep reading, be awar…

Beasts & Barbarians actual play: session 2

Posted on June 5th, 2012 under , , , . Posted by

Shaper and Maker

The story starts where the previous session ended. Doris, Falchor and Godzul have been jailed for drunken hooliganism, and Tereis had been carousing elsewhere, surprisingly having not got into this big trouble. This shows an excellent example…

Beasts & Barbarians campaign start: Loads of fun!

Posted on May 20th, 2012 under , , , . Posted by

Shaper and Maker

Today, I finally started my Beasts & Barbarians campaign. We were able to start after our little girl got to bed and played more than 4 hours. Savage Worlds wasn’t that fast this time, the last fight of the night took quite long. Still, it…

Diorama-like photos for starting Sword & Sorcery game inspiration

Posted on May 10th, 2012 under , , . Posted by

Shaper and Maker

My Beasts & Barbarians campaign starts soon, and I wanted to take a few inspirational photos while waiting for the game. These diorama-like photos have only few pieces of terrain, but represent situations that might well be epic moments in…

Beasts & Barbarians: Campaign primer

Posted on May 5th, 2012 under , , , . Posted by

Shaper and Maker

This post is meant for the players in my own upcoming Beasts & Barbarians campaign, but you can freely use it for your own campaign.
Links: Beasts & Barbarians Quick Start guide, Savage Worlds Test drive. You REALLY should read the qui…

Beasts of the Dominions: Beasts & Barbarians IndieGoGo -project

Posted on April 25th, 2012 under , , . Posted by

Shaper and Maker

If you have been buying Beasts & Barbarians pdf’s, you know the quality of these products. If you haven’t, and you’re interested in Conan-like games or setting, you definitely should check them out. You can also find several of B&B fre…

Miniatures for Sword & Sorcery: Part 8 – few more barbarians and other excellent finds

Posted on April 13th, 2012 under , , , . Posted by

Shaper and Maker

As my Sword & Sorcery miniature collection grows, both the available selection goes down and my treshold for choosing miniatures goes up. In my last two orders, I’ve got several miniatures that are great additions to my selection of S&…