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Dire Prophecies and Portents (game description)
Posted: Mon May 02, 2016 5:24 pm
by Inferno
Welcome...
The Lost City of Eternity is a swords and sorcery game in the 'Weird Tales' tradition of Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft. It promises exotic lands, eerie mystery, savage violence, eldritch horror, deadly intrigue, and terrifying monsters.
In the Hyborian Age, desperate adventurers explore the ancient ruins of a dead civilization...
...unaware of the deathless horrors there...
...that have lied in wait for eternity.
Re: Dire Prophecies and Portents (game description)
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2016 1:31 pm
by Inferno
Source Material:
-The Lost City (B4) by Tom Moldvay (TSR 1982)
-Conan by Robert E. Howard
-The 'Weird Tales' stories of H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith
-Raiders of the Lost Ark by Spielberg and Lucas
-The art of Frank Frazetta
-Ancient Egypt
-Every DM I've ever had. Thank you.
Re: Dire Prophecies and Portents (game description)
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2019 11:37 am
by Inferno
Re: Dire Prophecies and Portents (game description)
Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 4:25 pm
by Inferno
Book III: The Lost City of Atlantis
Game description:
In an age undreamt of...
....brave adventurers seek the ruins of an ancient outpost of legendary lost Atlantis.
Atlantis, that peerless civilization of Men, renowned for glory and grandeur unrivalled.
Atlantis, destroyed in a global cataclysm millennia ago.
Atlantis, lost forever to antiquity, no more than a myth in these dark ages of the Earth.
Atlantis, in whose ageless ruins lurk mysteries, wonders and terrors unimagined.
Will you be among those fearless adventurers? I hope so.
Campaign Info:
Inspiration: The 1979 Judges Guild classic proto-megadungeon,
The Caverns of Thracia by Jaquays.
Source Material: Robert E. Howard and Greek mythology.
World: The Hyborian Age of Conan the barbarian.
Tone: 'Weird Tales' horror and sword-and-sorcery set in a mythic Underworld.
System: AD&D 1e with house rules to approximate the game's world. Low magic.
Game: Old school dungeoncrawl. No 'story' except that which the characters make. Two posts per week for years to come.
Characters: Start at 3rd or 4th level. Creativity encouraged. Roleplay over rollplay.
Re: Dire Prophecies and Portents (game description)
Posted: Tue May 25, 2021 1:26 pm
by Inferno
What might be my favorite map of all RPGs is courtesy Dave Cook's
(I1) Dwellers of the Forbidden City from 1981.
Voted among "The 30 Greatest D&D Adventures of All Time" by Dungeon Magazine, it's yet another oldschool classic inspired by Robert E. Howard's Conan stories.
