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Additionally with his permission, I got a rather informative response from an Italian poster on GiantITP: Friendly italian forum user to the rescue! :smallbiggrin: The "spaturnum" is most likely a reference to a book by a famous italian comedian: in the book the biblical god, among the oth...

https://i.imgur.com/hdi7hyO.png Welcome to the longest chapter in the book, detailing the major regional setting. This chapter starts out with a short history followed up by 15 regions, the major seas, and what is known about lands beyond the Kingdom’s borders. Hasty History of the Kingdom The earl...

https://i.imgur.com/mpasqkn.png As far as fantasy RPGs go, the True20/AGE versions of Blue Rose weren’t exactly swimming in monster and NPC stat blocks. So in a strange way, 5th Edition’s cavalcade of creatures can be a great benefit. We do have some new monsters, although first we’ll detail existi...

https://i.imgur.com/HLPKi6t.png This section is entirely for the Condottieri/DM. It’s part new rules, but mostly advice, charts, and tables for bringing the setting’s more unique elements to life. Spaghetti Fantasy talks about what distinguishes Brancalonia from other settings. First off, it’s “low...

https://i.imgur.com/hyMHE4W.png Rangers are those who cross through the wild lands of Aldea for all manner of reasons. Rangers who choose the Hunter subclass gain additional chooseable features in line with those who prioritize hunting the servants of Shadow. One 3rd level feature treats their mele...

https://i.imgur.com/dqYPNtV.png This chapter is super-short, but covers some important rules in addition to new items. Shoddy Equipment reflects the hand-me-down, well-worn gear favored by Knaves, common folk, and others short on goods. Such poor equipment is obviously inferior in some way: food sm...

I don't think it's a pun, given that it would be out of character for the Blue Rose writers to crack ethnic jokes. I think it has more to do with being a general term for "nomad" to get the point across rather than using the more familiar g-word (which is a slur according to many Roma/Roma...

https://i.imgur.com/C9wPHbT.jpeg Welcome to another mini-review for my High 5e series, where I read the 5th Edition conversion of the Blue Rose romantic fantasy setting! As to why it’s not a full review, the 5th Edition version is a bit peculiar as its fluff and crunch are separated more or less en...

All manner of talking animals, and yet the only player races are humanoid. Extremely disappointing. If it's any consolation, I'm also writing a draft for the 5th Edition version of Blue Rose, which has rules for talking animal PCs. There's also a standalone 5e book called Awakened which has similar...

https://i.imgur.com/qflPR30.jpeg This chapter houses a collection of new rules to better emulate Brancalonia’s Spaghetti Fantasy vibe. Some of which are used to round out character creation, which we’ll cover as they come. Setting Rules Beyond the new player-facing material in the prior chapter, th...

https://i.imgur.com/x6hG2QE.png There’s been a growing trend of RPGs and campaign settings which move beyond the pseudo-British/Western European trappings of the fantasy genre. The increase in the use of cultural consultants and sensitivity readers for accurate and respectful portrayals has helped ...

I also forgot to include a Bibliography (and Artist/Writer Portfolios). I'll include it in this post for further reading by interested parties.

Thank you for your response, Chamomile. I don't have much to add than you gave a good overview of your paid DM work. Asking out of morbid curiosity, how do you deal with jerkass players who end up making things worse for the rest of the table? If you boot them, how do you deal with people who'd dema...

I'm curious about Blue Rose. It made a splash back in it's day, and I'm curious how/whether the authors address the marketing blurb's claim that "adventure and romance await!" I may do this as a mini-review. In reading both the 5e and AGE version I discovered that a lot of the fluff text ...

Chapter 9: Beast Compendium Jeosung is home to a lot of typical fantasy monsters, but a few new creatures are particularly numerous and/or prominent to merit mention. This chapter gives us 11 new types and 23 stat blocks, a fair amount for a non-bestiary sourcebook. Additionally each creature also ...

https://i.imgur.com/3CUcxJn.png Chapter 6, Part 2: the Mudang Class Also known as shamans, mudang are mortals whose souls bond with spirits. This decision is rarely made by the mortal, and as such most mudang ‘come into’ their powers rather than through study or training. The bonding process opens ...

I found a company on Drive-Thru RPG called ChamomileHasAdventures, and one of the Den regulars came to mind.

Is the Chamomile of the Den the same person as the one writing these sourcebooks? Inquiring minds would like to know!

https://i.imgur.com/vHEjXSi.jpeg Chapter 6: 5th Edition (& Pathfinder, OSR) Options Note: Some of you reading ahead may see that I haven’t covered the Mudang class in this post. This is intentional; Koryo’s Cleric replacement is more complicated than the subclasses here. Since it also has a cha...

3 more entries! https://i.imgur.com/9sOQVic.jpeg Adventures From the Pot-Bellied Kobold: A series of 15 short adventures. https://i.imgur.com/kXWgCJ8.jpeg Blue Rose Adventurer's Guide: A 5e conversion on the notable queer-friendly romantic fantasy setting. https://i.imgur.com/EOvcXTV.jpeg Grim Hollo...

https://i.imgur.com/MLeMqbS.png Chapter 5, Part 5: Haenamguk Our final region in Jeosung, Haenamguk is an island nation off the southern peninsular coasts. The terrain fared far worse during the Winds of Darkness than other regions, and the devastation wrought by Yun Sepyeong’s fall and the monster...

Unfortunate political overtones aside, this take on the City of Brass sounds really cool. It's rare to find high level adventures that feel "epic" and seem like they could work with high level caster PCs. The fact that we could join forces with actual Lucifer is just icing on the cake. Fi...

So I'm going to finish Koryo first, but after doing City of Brass I'm debating whether to review Brancalonia or Spheres of Power & Might next. The Spheres books are such that they'd be best reviewed together rather than separately, but in comparison to Brass shouldn't be too hard. Here's the Str...

In the 3rd Edition monster book the Tome of Horrors, Lucifer was statted up as a CR 39 archdevil whose stat block was a ridiculous length. He got all the abilities of a 20th-level cleric among other things. He got converted to other systems in later versions of said Tome, which has Swords & Wiza...

So...are all the sex workers slaves or night hags? Are the night hags pretending to be slaves? If so, they are drugging and robbing people who want to pay to rape slaves, and you could easily make them the heroines of a gratuitous sex and violence thing. You've put far more thought into this than t...

https://i.imgur.com/KXEGC6Y.png Book 3 This section of the book is sort of a “sandbox adventure path,” detailing various locales of importance in the City of Brass and how the people and events within can help bring about the downfall of the Grand Sultan. The book infers here and in earlier points ...