Pelts For XP - Hex Collection 6

William Tylee Ranney

With the playtest well underway, it's time to finish the last few hexes. I've also got a few outstanding minidungeons to complete, which should be done in the coming days. 

MEDUSA'S MANSE

This swamp hex has gravel paths made from hundreds of petrified bugs and rodents. They converge on a macabre stone hut made from piled earth and calcified animals stacked upon one another. In front of the house is four "statues" of Plated Gator-Rats (CC2), caught mid-snarl.

The hut is 30x30' in size, with no windows and a crude door of driftwood and hides. The interior is 10' deeper than ground level, filled with statues of petrified humans, Orcs, Voormi, Blue-Tongues etc. Unsurprisingly it's the lair of a Medusa (OSE). The monsterwoman is unique insofar as she can undo her petrification, which she abuses to unleash the trapped Gator-Rats on trespassers.

Pelts For XP - Hex Collection 5

Andrew Knez, Jr.

Penultimate hex collection post. I start the playtest tomorrow, so I'll be relying on crib notes if my players reach any unkeyed hexes. I doubt they'll get that far, but it's fine if they do. 

Full credit to Primeumaton for coming up with Uave Twice-Burnt and Izaak Compleat.

HANGTOOTH BLUFF

This hex of riverside cliffs is home to the Hangtooth, a tribe of ten Weretigers (OSE) and four Sabretooths (OSE) they've tamed. The beastmen act like stereotypical barbarians, fighting naked with chert spears, but they're really just pissant dirt farmers mutated by Serpentman bioweapons. 

These posers hunt for their food, including humans. They eat plenty of animals who think and speak, so it's really only fair. The tigers accept surrender, but only if you volunteer something (or someone) for the larder. This doesn't include rations, only fresh corpses (they dislike cooked meat and violently gag at the sight of vegetables).

Three Generic Minidungeons

I need to round out my hexcrawl with some dungeons to plunder, there's too many unmapped locations filled with hordes of high HD monsters. Dungeons are a style of play with far greater options for risk mitigation.

This post uses the "Generic Maps" in the Monster Overhaul. I haven't used any of its statblocks, because I don't know how well they map to OSE and I'm already referencing three different bestiaries.

Pelts For XP - Hex Collection 4

Albert Tucker

Time for a quickfire round. 

These will have titles for posterity. I'll also go through my previous posts and name all those hexes. Same with adding local encounters.

Pelts For XP - Travel In The Bloody Marches

Nick Eggenhofer

OVERLAND MOVEMENT

A party's travel speed ('TS') is their encounter movement rate divided by 5. Mounted parties have 8 TS. Sure their mounts can move faster, but only in short bursts (e.g., during encounters). Those travelling on land vehicles like carts or wagons have 6 TS. Parties on boats have 12 TS.

Wilderness experts like Rangers, Wood Elves etc. can allow the party to move through a single hex without spending any TS, once per day. Doesn't stack with additional characters. This ability could be abused to quickly move through very difficult hexes or ford a river (which is intentional).

Minidungeon - Consecrated To Father Flint

Gwion Gwion

KNAP THE BLADES 

CUT THE EYES
SWALLOW THE COALS
CLUB THE SNAKE
STAB THE SNAKE

EAT THE SNAKE

Flintman war chant, transcribed from rock art

Even More Gods

Eucharius Rösslin

BLOODY MOTHER

Neutral goddess of midwifery and pregnancy. Deaths in childbirth are a specter terrorising every race and creed. Without Bloody Mother's loving ministrations, infant mortality would quadruple overnight. 

The Mother's clerics are wandering healers renowned for zealously defending the pregnant and the newlyborn. Some fundamentalists also punish breaches of moral law; absentee parents are chastised or beaten, rapists are mutilated or executed in cruel and unusual fashions. More progressive sects have pioneered pregnancy tests, contraceptives, abortions and caesarean deliveries. 

Religious orthodoxy states that Bloody Mother is either an aspect of the Knacker or Grain Goddess, but her worship likely predates both religions.

Pelts For XP - D6 People You Meet

Where there's a whip, there's a way!

Where there's a whip, there's a way!

Where there's a whip, there's a way!

Left, right, left, right, left

We don't wanna go to war today

But the Lord of the Lash says: "nay, nay, nay!"

We're gonna march all day, all day, all day!

Where there's a whip there's a way!

Alexander Korotich