Pyramid of the Lost King Kickstarter is live!

A new OSR Sandbox Kickstarter from Genius Loci games went live yesterday.  You can read more about it here http://geniuslocigames.blogspot.ca/2015/01/kickstarter-is-go-pyramid-of-lost-king.html

Here is the link to the kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/784085563/pyramid-of-the-lost-king-adventures-in-basq

An OSR Sandbox adventure for low-level characters in the twisting sands of a barely explored desert.

About Pyramid of the Lost King

Pyramid of the Lost King is the newest Lands of Usarm adventure from Genius Loci Games. Pyramid takes place in the deserts far to the south of the Ruined City of Uostin where the merchant guilds of Neark are trying to open trade with the elvish forest kings of the Last Land. However, between the Lands of Usarm and the Last Lands stands the Saragubi Desert, A wild and unexplored place that offers adventurers a chance at fortune, fame, and of course certain death.  

Pyramid of the Lost King is a decentralized sandbox adventure centering around an area of the Desert known as the Narrows. The Narrows is a section of desert that is divided into a northern and southern half by a massive slab of sandstone over 200 miles wide and 300 feet in height. The only way (aside from walking around) past this slab of rock is through the narrow canyon the area gets its name form. The Narrows and the desert around it have become a hot bed of activity as the merchant guilds have come to rely on it for their caravans to the Last Lands. However, the desert around the Narrows is still unexplored and dangers, both ancient and new, encroach.

Basq - 2015 Danny Prescott for Genius Loci Games

Covers on white

Proposed cover for the enormity project - input needed

Alright folks, lemme know what you think, option 1, 2 or 3.

Option 1

Option 2

Option 3

Layout fun

Last night in a moment of silliness I spent about a half hour attempting to re-work the current layout and design of my mega dungeon.  It is currently very B/X looking, so much so that I've even considered doing the usual "RPG" cover ala KOTB, old D&D modules.  Of which I previously wrote about here.  Although I highly doubt it will stand out amongst all the competitors out there.  

There is something about that old school layout that works however.  2 columns and using a font like Soultane, and Souvenir just throw you right back to 1981.  Plus its easy as hell to read isn't it!  I was toying with the idea of using a background and changing fonts, but I just kept going back to that original look.  I also toyed with 3 columns, but it just seemed difficult.  I had read thru the temple of elemental evil, and that was on my caveat, damn hard to read.  
I guess we will see what time brings, I quite like the look of "A Red And Pleasant Land" and "No Country For Weak Men" http://nerdomancerofdork.wordpress.com/2014/06/25/new-adventure-no-country-for-weak-men/ (GET IT, ITS REALLY GOOD!) +Anders Hedenbjörk Lager 

Part of the reason for doing the old B&W layout is that is extremely cost effective, I plan to hopefully offer this bad boy up as POD.   But looking at the new version of D&D and pathfinder books that glossy sexiness just well, its glossy sexiness man!  

So I think I may continue to toy with scribus and some Inked Adventures stuff, see what I can't come up with.  Even if its for my own satisfaction. 

Of course I'm getting ahead of myself, I still need to write the rest of this! 

Sneak peak room from the enormity project

Here is another little teaser from the enormity project, feel free to use for your own adventures.

This strange cavern is imbued with a magical blue light.  The walls are smooth and covered in strange old glyphs from floor to ceiling.  In the centre of the room is a stone pool with what appears to be water.  This pool acts as a pool of requirement.  Any Good aligned PC putting their hands into the pool will pull out one of the following.  (This can only be done once per PC).

Roll 1D20

1 Ring Of Protection + 1 (decreases armour class by 1)

2 Gauntlets Of Ogre Power

3 Rope Of Climbing

4 Shield + 1

5 Leather Armour + 1

6 Silver Two Handed Sword +1

7 Wand Of Fear

8 Ring Of Waterwalking

9 Jug Of Ale (Restores 1D6 HP’s)

10 Silver Dagger

11 Standard Rations For 1 Week

12 Plate Mail Armour + 1

13 Silver Sword

14 Potion Of Healing

15 Scroll 1 First Level Spell

16 Blast Shield (Protects against lighting & fire damage, PC receives half damage)

17 Sling + 1

18 Cloak Of Ward Against Undead (when worn fighting undead the PC receives +2 to AC)

19 Magical Lockpicks + 10% when picking locks

20 Spellbook containing 1D6 1st level spells

The Trolls of Mistwood - Pay What You Want TODAY ONLY

The Trolls of Mistwood by Shinobi 27 Games is on sale as a Pay What You Want item for a very limited time... like today only!

GET IT HERE

The Trolls of Mistwood is the first adventure in the Mistwood Series. Adventurers must investigate the return of marauding trolls to the isolated fishing village of Mistwood. Will they be able to stop a terrifying curse, or will they fall victim to it?

Designed for adventurers from 4th to 6th level, The Trolls of Mistwood will challenge higher level characters and rack up the body count for larger, less experienced groups.

Features:

• Mystery and excitement compatible with Goodman Games Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG but easily converted to other systems
• 40 pages of rampaging trolls, eerie swamps, shadowy villains and more trolls
• Beautifully rendered isometric maps by Brian Van Hunsel
• New magic items and curses to share amongst your players
• Detailed history and description of Mistwood and the surrounding region

Don't forget your fire oil!.

I am very curious to read a whole DCC module, here is my chance! 

Dungeon Artwork Random Table

Determine Type Of Artwork - roll 1d10

1  Crudely hand painted
2  Fine art water color, framed
3  Ceramic pot/vase
4  Marble/Stone statue
5  Wall hanger (unusable shield, sword)
6  Hand woven tapestry
7  Figurine
8  Rug/blanket
9  Painted instrument
10  Engraved/carved in wall/ceiling/floor

Image on artwork 1d20

1  Knights jousting
2  Dragon flying overhead destroying town
3  An old tentacled god
4  A religious symbol
5  Strange runes that tell a story
6  A maiden in a tower
7  The moon eclipsing the sun
8  A army upon a hill, lined up in rows
9  A old king with his crown tipped to one side
10  A devil with a trident forcing people into hell
11  A Orc beheading an opponent
12  A snake devouring another snake
13  Wizard with pipe smoking
14  A windmill
15  A farmstead with children playing
16  A vast ocean with ships upon it
17  Dragons fighting blowing fire at each other
18  A maiden and a beggar
19  Ancient structures rarely seen nowadays (pyramids)
20  Wolves chasing people

Artistic Motivation - Roll 1d6

1  Entertainment/parody
2  The mysterious
3  Religious
4  Propaganda
5  Self healing/psychological
6  Subversion/Anarchy