Blackbirds: The Extinguishing - Core Rulebook

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Fat Bastard: The "main" body he speaks through is a short man who is so rotund he's almost spherical. Words Can Break My Bones: The Deadly Mockery Technique allows a Theurge to insult someone so powerfully that it kills them. Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Before her ascension Belladonna took care to cultivate the image of a kind, motherly figure.

It's unclear if the Norns were a trio of entities or a single being who chose to appear in the form of three women. In fact, I think I'd rather have that than an all-in-one game as I feel like they'd just try to shoehorn it into the 5e ecosphere which doesn't suit the setting at all. Claimed by the Supernatural: Nephilim are descendants of human Theurges who made a bargain with Outsiders: Power, for themselves and all of their descendants, in exchange for service from the same. I live with my family in Wisconsin, born near the heart of RPGs (and just a few short years younger than they are). Glissaindaira, Queen of ChitinA Lord of the Nameless Court, who appears as a swarm of insects local to the region.It causes the afflicted to become steadily more zealous and devoted to him, all while their body slowly turns to gold. That estimation resonated in 2021, when Mothership appeared in a story headlined “Sci-Fi Has Changed A Lot In The Past Decade—These 7 Reads Will Show You How,” which ran on NPR. I was highly interested until I came to the descriptions of multitudes of demihuman character species, which is a huge turnoff for me personally - and I think it works against the whole Berserk vibe. It is within this warp and weft of fate’s weird metamorphosis that your characters gather up the frayed threads of its weavings to make their mark upon the world with threads of their own.

The Worm That Walks: She has no body of her own, instead collecting local insects together into a roughly-humanoid form.Each dagger is an Outsider in the form of a blade, which choose separate people to corrupt and manipulate until the wielders are willing to kill even without reason. Abridged from the first ten chapters of ZWEIHAENDER RPG: Revised Core Rulebook, this book contains everything you need to create a.

This dark fantasy RPG puts players in the role of Blackbirds, mortals chosen by the dead gods of Fate to fight against the Oligarchs.Once known as Afet al-Wazabi, the beautiful daughter of an extremely influential merchant family from Corbel’s satellite port of Ipswald, she used her family's vast fortunes to join the Oligarchs in pursuit of godhood, seeking to preserve her youth and beauty forever. The chosen were fed a feast of wine and cakes, bathed, dressed in fine robes, and nailed to the oldest known tree in the area. The Corruption: Each Oligarch twists the minds and bodies of those touched by their influence, changing them in ways both subtle and overt before eventually killing them. Deal with the Devil: One of the main sources of magic in the setting is Theurgy, wherein a Theurge performs a ritual to contact a single Outsider and bargains with them for power.

When he failed to officially seize the title, however, he hatched a plan to lead a cohort of the world's elite to murder the gods and steal their thrones. I love how each of the new "gods" has a disease/condition that they inflict on their followers that transforms them in multiple stages, leading to new and interesting monsters in each of the intermediate stages (as well as cool transforming diseases that can be inflicted on the PCs). The game includes non-human character options that offer unique spins on classic fantasy archetypes.Prayers and sacrifices to Ouroboros were often requests to enthrall one of the other gods into granting the wish of its petitioners.