#nehwon

[oldschoolfrp]

Tyaa the winged goddess of evil birds can summon 20 of any type of bird or 100 Birds of Tyaa, sentient ravens with poisoned talons. Her cult was banished from Lankhmar but some worshippers linger in the mountains of Nehwon. (Jennell Jaquays, from the Nehwon Mythos section of AD&D Deities & Demigods, TSR, 1980)

[chernobog13]

Mike Mignola's model sheets for Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser.

[nelc]

Jennell Jaquays, portraits for TSR's Lankhmar: City of Adventure

[panelswithoutpeople]

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Book Three: The Price of Pain Ease

by Howard Chaykin and Mike Mignola

[niksrpgs]

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[tlaquetzqui]

The two blood-brothers tall and small felt to the full then the intoxication of the fog, its surging bittersweet touch-song of hate, its hot promises of all bloodlusts forever fulfilled, an uninhibited eternity of murder-madness.

Fafhrd, wineless tonight, intoxicated only by his own idealisms and the thought of watchmanship, was hardly touched by the sensations, did not feel them as temptations at all.

The Mouser, much of whose nature was built on hates and envies, had a harder time, but he too in the end rejected the fog’s masterful lures—if only, to put the worst interpretation on it, because he wanted always to be the source of his own evil and would never accept it from another, not even as a gift from the archfiend himself.

—Fritz Leiber, “The Cloud of Hate”

[vintagerpg]

The first edition Lankhmar adventure modules are a bit of a strange case. They walk a narrow tightrope between feeling like an old school D&D module and also feeling like a Fritz Leiber short story. In this case, that may or may not be thanks to the presence of a number of minor characters from said stories playing a major role.

CA1: Swords of the Undercity is divided into three parts. The first concerns an expedition to the Sunken Lands to recover a lost (and, unknown to them, cursed) treasure. The second involves getting drunk (and drugged) and losing said treasure. The final installment reveals a new threat from the sewers come to reclaim the treasure.

The notion of a fantastic treasure not being worth all the hassle is a theme well suited for a game based on Leiber’s stories and the creatures at the root of the problem – corrupted humans slowly devolving into fish – is delightfully Lovecraftian. If there is any problem with the module at all, it’s that it doesn’t embrace its comedy enough. Comedy in RPGs is pretty hard, though, so I’ll give it a pass.

[rpgcovers]

Savage Worlds: Lankhmar - Savage Tales of the Thieves Guild ~ Pinnacle (2015)