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Urban Dressing: Trade Town

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A GM’s Resource by Josh Vogt

Tired of your towns and cities being boring, bland places in which your PCs show little or no interest? Want to bring them alive with cool, interesting minor features of note? Then Urban Dressing is for y...

20 Dungeon Statues with a Secret

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Dungeons always seem to have statues. Perhaps one of the most durable forms of art available to the average dungeon builder, they are often used to add a feeling of grandure and awe to important locations such as throne rooms, temples and ...

Village Backdrop: Sea Bitch

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A Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Compatible GM’s Resource by Richard Green

Perched hard against steep cliffs and protected on the landward side by an earth ditch and berm, the small fishing village of Sea Bitch is a windy place. ...

Town Backdrop: Wolfsbane Hollow

A Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Compatible GM’s Resource by Robert Brookes Shielded to the north by the lofty peaks of the Vurdfell Spine and protected from the hordelands of the east by the Greatshadow Gorge, the town of Wolfsbane Hollow has persisted in relative isolation for hundreds of years. Seemingly a simple border town, a dark shadow hangs over this hard, rough settlement. For here, the r...

GM's Monthly Miscellany: May 2015

Featuring material from some of Raging Swan Press’s newest products as well as classic releases of yesteryear, advice articles and material from Creighton’s on-going design of the megadungeon Gloamhold, the GM’s Monthly Miscellany series is a terrific free resource for the busy, time-crunched GM. This month’s issue features: • GM’s Advice: How to Handle Zero Ranks in Knowledge Skill...

Alternate Dungeons: Abandoned Temple

Not all dungeons feature the traditional setup of a monster-filled subterranean network of rooms and passages. Druidic groves, haunted houses, rank sewers and more can all serve as an exciting backdrop to the PCs’ adventures. Such locations present their own set of unique design challenges, though, for the time-crunched GM plotting the next adventure. This instalment of Alternate Dungeons pres...

Village Backdrop: Saint Fiacre

A Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Compatible GM’s Resource by Alexander Augunas Saint Fiacre is a village with a turbulent past and an uncertain future. Having weathered sahuagin raids and economic woes, the village struggles to grow and prosperity eludes its citizens. With its saintly patron now long dead, its economy is in decline and few travel to the village. On the surface, Saint Fiacre seems ...

GM's Monthly Miscellany: April 2015

Featuring material from some of Raging Swan Press’s newest products as well as classic releases of yesteryear, advice articles and material from Creighton’s on-going design of the megadungeon Gloamhold, the GM’s Monthly Miscellany series is a terrific free resource for the busy, time-crunched GM. This month’s issue features: GM Advice: Why (And How) You Should Design Unique Magic Items D...

Village Backdrop: Aubade

This week, Raging Swan Press releases Village Backdrop: Aubade by Jacob W. Michaels. I hope you enjoy it, and that you find a place in your campaign or this cursed village! Laid low by a witch's curse, life in the once-prosperous village of Aubade is lived in reverse. At dawn, the streets empty, residents remaining hidden inside during the daylight hours and avoiding the sun’s caress. At night,...

Urban Dressing: Elven Town

Tired of your towns and cities being boring, bland places in which your PCs show little or no interest? Want to bring them alive with cool, interesting minor features of note? Then Urban Dressing is for you! Each instalment in the line focuses on a different kind of town and gives harried GMs the tools to bring such locales to life with interesting and noteworthy features. This instalment of Urba...

Subterranean Enclave: Dilath's Hold

This week, Raging Swan Press releases Subterranean Enclave: Dilath's Hold. The centre of the slave trade in the region, Dilath’s Hold is an aberration. Founded by a renegade drow nobleman, within its precincts drow and duergar live (relatively) peacefully. However, all is not well in Dilath’s Hold. Among its folk, racial tensions simmer, and the lust for wealth and power corrupt those already...

Village Backdrop: Red Talon

Huddled in a sheltered cove at the base of lofty cliffs, the tiny village of Red Talon is inaccessible by land for all but the best climbers. Its folk are insular and vague rumours lay cannibalism and devil‐worship at their door—with good reason. Founded by the vicious pirate captain Hagruk Stormrider Red Talon hides a vicious, depraved cult dedicated to the unholy, cannibalistic worship of th...

Gibbous Moon Collector's Edition

This week, Raging Swan Press releases Gibbous Moon Collector's Edition in both print and pixels! Months ago, the necromancer Dunstan Wymer was gored by a wereboar and infected with lycanthropy. Almost driven insane by the realization of what he had become after awaking amid the gore and viscera of his companions’ eviscerated corpses, he has since shunned civilization instead seeking only solitu...

GM's Monthly Miscellany: March 2015

Featuring material from some of Raging Swan Press’s newest products as well as classic releases of yesteryear, advice articles and material from Creighton’s on-going design of the megadungeon Gloamhold, the GM’s Monthly Miscellany series is a terrific free resource for the busy, time-crunched GM. This month’s issue features: • Pathfinder Advice: Top 10 Pathfinder Arguments • Barlow...

Urban Dressing: Dwarven Town

This week, Raging Swan Press releases Urban Dressing: Dwarven Town. When you run an adventure in a dwarven town or hold, you'll be glad you've got this supplement behind your GM's screen! This instalment of the Urban Dressing line presents loads of great details to customise the dwarven holds and towns in your campaign. Designed to be used both during preparation or actual play, Urban Dressing: D...

GM Screen Inserts

This week, Raging Swan Press releases its Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Compatible GM Screen Inserts. Available in both landscape and portrait versions they are packed with information the busy GM needs to run his game. I use them in my own games and I hope you find them as useful as I do! (For my use, I purchased the landscape GM screen from Hammerdog games available at OBS for the inserts and th...