I come from the land of the ice and snow

 

So I got a wild hair and created 81 pages of demographically accurate random birthplace charts covering every hamlet, village, town, city, castle, and citadel of the northern third of the Wilderlands of High Fantasy setting.

Part 1 of 3, I guess?

Fight On! number 16 is out.

The new issue of Fight On! has been out for a bit. You can get copies via drivethru or lulu.

I haven't finished reading my copy, but I'd like to recommend "21 Lessons Learned After
Running 100 Sessions" by Attronarch and my friend Becami's dungeon "Seven Gates &
Fifty Dog-Faced Men." Also, I love the little map on page 87.

Check out this fashionable fellow.

I was looking at the Tunnels & Trolls stuff on the ebays and stumbled across this guy. I love his visor, though I think it would be better if it was painted candy apple red. This guy was part of the second Dragon Lords line from Grenadier, blister #69 (nice), Troll. Sculpted by Cliff Linton.

More monsters need interesting accessories.

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I assumed they ate grass or herbs or something like that.

 from "Ten Days in the Arena of Khazan" by Ken St. Andre, Different Worlds #7

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Hârn Orcs are Wee Rascals

So I've been revisiting N. Robin Crossby's Hârn setting, a cool sorta low-magic medieval world that been around since the 80's. Hârn has its own system, HârnMaster, but no mechanics appear in the setting book. I know Jimbo Eddy Raga-ma-tazz numero 4 thinks early modern Europe is the ideal setting for Lamentations of the Flame Princess, but I think lowkey gritty Hârn would work pretty well. So much so that I am currently converting many of the weird spells in HârnMaster to LotFP.

You can hardly do a medieval fantasy setting without some sort of kneejerk self-differentiation from Tolkien and one of the ways Crossby does this is with the orcs. Orcs are also called Gargun in Hârn and they are so, like, totally different from Jirrty Wirrty's bad boys. I will not give most of the details here, but one way they differ from D&D and Games Workshop orcs is that they are tiny little bastards. Here's the five subraces of Orc/Gargun in scale with (mostly) normal adventurers.

The second guy from the left is a Gargun Kyani, the second smallest of the five subraces. They are noted as perhaps slightly less malevolent and slightly more civilized than their cousins. So in my hypothetical LotFP/Hârn mash-up they replace the halflings, which Hârn lacks.