Glass Bird Games

Still got a fair amount of work to go on the Lernaean barrows, but here's a quick one, along with some ideas for what to do if the PCs get their asses eaten by the hydra, as they're all-too-likely to do. More soon! The Cursed The tomb of the Cursed is unassuming, apart from the recently-built door secured with a modern padlock. A freshly painted yellow sign hangs from it. It reads: “This tomb is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed monarch is commemorated here. Nothing valued has been interred here. The Curse is still present in your time, as it was in hers. This place is best left shunned.” This tomb is unique in that it’s an actual mound of earth. The dying head has grown weak, and shrunk away from the entrance. Filbert holds the key to the door. He will not lend it willingly. A short passage downward leads to a roughly shaped earthen room. There is no decoration here, apart from a stone sarcophagus. It’s bisected lengthwise, along with the rest of the chamber, by a line ...

  https://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-faceless-one.html My next barrow in my The Barrows Hunger  project for the Dyson Logs Jam is complete. This is the barrow of the oldest of the Lernaean monarchs, the Lawmaker. Not that he was a real guy or anything - for those just joining, these barrows are the heads of subterranean hydra, disguised by strange biological processes to resemble tombs ripe for the plundering.  Fortunately, this head of the hydra is dead. It was the first to die, in fact, many years ago. That doesn't mean its natural camouflage entirely gave up though. I took this opportunity to introduce the first adversary to the adventure, and give it some hooks that might clue the players at least partially in on what's going on here. I decided to go with Cairn for the system again, as it's what I know and I enjoy writing for and running it. See you in the next barrow! The Barrow of the Lawmaker Low to the ground, as if worn down over the ages Loose ...

It's been a while! Been working and traveling, so I've fallen a little behind on blogging and RPG business in general. To get back into the swing of things, I've started working on my entry for the Dyson Logos Jam ! I've used Dyson's incredible maps so many times for my own games, it's about time I did something public facing with them. Time is still a little short, so I'm going to be posting my progress as mostly stream of consciousness thoughts and raw notes. Please forgive the info density! Stone Head in Sergievka Park - St. Petersburg, Russia As always, I'm incapable of keeping it simple and want to do something different than a straightforward dungeon. After driving through the Dakotas twice in a week, my brain is filled to overflowing with images of tourist traps, dusty "museums" out in the middle of nowhere that have little to offer but gift shops. I'm also missing my open table Barrowmaze game that ran aground about 6 months ago whe...