Sunday, July 8, 2012

Announcing Giant Week!

Partly based on the success of Hex Crawl Week, and partly based on the fact that I need a kick in my pants to keep the posting up to an acceptable level around here, I'm doing another themed week of posts. So if I can keep my $#!+ together this week, this is what you'll be seeing.

MONDAY: GIANT INDEX
This 7-page PDF is the giant equivalent of the Lycanthrope Index. Included are OSR stats and info on 50 giants from cyclops to verbeeg. Like the Lycanthrope Index, I've combed through all the resources I could find to give you an exhaustive list of all the giant types and put them in an OSR context. And like the Lycanthrope Index, I've added 1 or 2, which bring us to...

TUESDAY (New Monster Day): DIRT GIANT
The stats for the dirt giant will appear in Monday's index PDF, but Tuesday's post will feature the full listing/description with an illustration. This one is relatively "low level" as giants go (but still stronger than, say, an ogre), but really feels (IMHO) like a nice addition to the "extended" basic types (which, to me, include bog, fog and mountain).

WEDNESDAY: SEPARATED AT BIRTH - GIANT EDITION
If you've ever seen my "Separated at Birth" posts (here and here), then you know what to expect.

THURSDAY: DANGER ON ROCK ISLAND (FREE MINI-ADVENTURE)
If, during Hex Crawl Week, you downloaded the Map of Nimmerland, or the background on Nimmerland (now both available on the Old-school Adventures™ page), you might recall Rock Island, and the pirate tales that a tunnel leads to the islands, and tell of the stone giants living there. Well, without giving away too much, there is a tunnel, and there are stone giants (sort of), but there's a darker secret that eventually ties into the ruins north of Aglar Bog. Thursday's download is a detailed map of the tunnel, Stone Island and Rock Island, and the encounters therein.

This thing started getting WAY to unruly for a "throwaway" mini-adventure (started getting too complicated, involved too many encounters, etc.), so I'm going to be replacing it with something a bit "easier to handle" from a writing perspective.

FRIDAY (d30 Feature Day): UPDATED d30 GIANT GENERATOR
This is an updated version of the original Giant Generator posted during the A-to-Z challenge, but now includes alignment and intelligence.

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