Delving Wolf

This week I'll go back to Cairn 2e after creating a PC for it a few weeks ago . This time I'll follow the procedure presented in Cairn 2e's Warden's Guide  to create a monster in just a few simple steps, strating by (you guessed it) rolling on some random tables, in the best OSR tradition.   Let's start with the Monster Appearance  table, which asks us to roll a d20 twice, once for  Physique  and once for  Feature : Physique : 5, Eyeless ; Feature : 20,  Wings. So it's some form of bat.   Next, we have the  Monster Traits  table, for  Quirk  and  Weakness : Quirk : 6, Draws symbols ;  Weakness : 12,  Music . Ok, I'm getting ideas. Maybe it's some kind of familiar, drawing symbols on preys for its master, but music distracts it, preventing it from following orders? Not sure yet. The third table we roll on is  Monster Attacks , for  Type  and  Critical Damage . Type : 8, Shoots ; Critical Damage...

This week's post is, in a couple ways, a follow-up of one I made a few weeks ago . First of all, a bit of backstory: the idea for this post first sprang during my honeymoon cruise, a little more than a week ago. We were in Barcellona, doing a guided tour to the Sagrada Familia, and the guide's English was...let's say less than perfect, but because it was a mixed Italian/English group I could still follow. At one point we get to one of the entrances and, in front of it, there are two turtles supporting columns: The guide says that the turtle in the direction of the coast is a water turtle, while the one in the direction of the mountains is a tortoise, or as the guide put it, an earth turtle; her accent, though, made it sound like she was saying "Air Turtle". Instant ispiration. My mind, as it often does, started thinking about what an Air Turtle would look like, where it would live, and other possible details, and as I was voicing some of these ideas to my wife she...

This week I bring you an idea for a creature to put in your games, the Boumbom (which is new to me, although there's a chance someone else has come up with something similar and I am just not aware of it). The concept for this creature came to me while talking with my Dutch partner, when she told me that in her language tree is boom (pronounced boum), to which I replied Then how do you say bomb? -Bom.   In that moment an image appeared in my mind: an animated tree (is Treant copyrighted by the big corporation? Should I avoid it?) with fire powers. Yeah, that seems inspiring. But where would that come from? I thought about it for a while, and the idea I came up with was a group of Druids focused on the fire element, maybe part of a bigger cult or worshipping Fire as a sort of deity, working together to enchant the forest around their hideout to create these guards, which would be indistinguishable from normal trees while in their "resting state", but when they awaken thei...